posted on Saturday, July 31, 2004 9:12 PM
by
kevdaly
Off to Tech Ed
As the title implies, I'm off to Auckland (The UnGodly Cesspit) tomorrow for the local edition of Tech Ed 2004.
Brian Goldfarb was actually down in Wellington on Thursday giving a preview of ASP.NET 2 and Visual Studio 2005 goodness at our friendly neighbourhood Microsoft office. It was a very good presentation and a good example of infectious enthusiasm. My manager went along too - I think he may even have understood some words.
I'm turning comments off for a few days, last night some cretins posted comment spam to every single post I've ..er, posted to date. Idiots who think they are making a smart commercial move are obviously buying into comment spam as a “service”, since the spam comments had long lists of unrelated urls attached to them. May rabid chihuahuas eat the testicles of all involved. Slowly.
I'm keen to visit the HP booth at Tech Ed (on the assumption there is one) on the off chance they might be demo-ing the new iPAQs (a faint chance, but it would be cool). The lack of substantive reviews of the hx4700 is frustrating - this is clearly a result of the restrictive conditions HP now impose on anyone before sending them review units: yet another not particularly bright marketing move from a company that should know better. I think most marketing people everywhere could probably do with a visit from the aforementioned chihuahuas (yep, I'm full of the spirit of peace and brotherhood tonight).
Anyway, I'll hopefully be posting something shortly relating to Tech Ed (since I don't have a laptop I'll have to wait till I get back), and also finally some more about the Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 betas. Soon.-ish.