After couple of thousands of miles and some 10 time-zones to the
west I'm back from the Windows Anywhere conference cluster. Everything
is up and running again and as a starting post of the many things
learned I've put up a gallery with some snapshots of the events.
The main event was VSlive which hosted a couple of other conferences. All held in the same building, the Moscone convention center.
On the outside this building looks nice, but I was not that pleased by
the interior. Very high rooms, all in dull colors, disturbing aircos
and sometimes the sessions were more or less in the hallway. The atmosphere generated by the visitors and speakers was pretty laid back. It was good to meet fellow blogger Blaire Jennings.
Just like me he was exploring the world of the tablet PC. Lots of
tablets around, the most inspiring talk was by no-one less than Charles Petzold. Amongst the hosted conferences were the .NET day and the Indigo day. On the latter Yasser Shohoud gave a great keynote presenting an overview of Indigo.
The keynote hall had the best atmosphere. It was there the Midnight
Madness party was held. As a pre-launch the Visual Studio Tools for
Office team navigated a blimp (radio controlled balloon) through the hall. Which was in danger of all t-shirts and Channel-9 guys being shot into the audience, all to willing to catch whatever came flying by. Best thrower was Billy Hollis, inspired by the superbowl and his own hilaric preaching on the dangers of code addiction his t-shirts made it almost to the other end of the hall.