posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:08 PM
by
Benjy
Schedule Blues
Is anyone else building up their schedule at the TechEd Attendee website? I find the Session Voting tool rather difficult to use. Its one huge page that just goes on and on and on!! Its so easy to get lost in the list of sessions and the dates /times. Whats your experience of it?
Its nice that MS is giving us the chance to push our favorite sessions to the top, but I suspect that in the end, if we have a common set of favorites distributed among Architecture, Development, Data Management, Developer Tools etc, those sessions will end up running all in parallel because they were at the top of their respective piles!!
Then I thought I would focus on the Hands-On Labs I tried printing out the list of labs and got a 30 page document as a result. That doesnt include Messaging and Operations!!
The last conference I went for was DevWeek 2003 and that being much smaller, they just sent us the agenda and the session list and times and all we had to do was choose what to go for, which in itself was difficult. How do you choose between Jeff Prosise, Aaron Skonnard, Niels Berglund and Ingo Rammer?
Anyway, I gotta try and work through that huge list of sessions. I am sure of 1 at this point. The FABRIQ SOA app is definitely top of my list. I attended one of the Technical Roadshows and Aravindra Sehmi (unless I've mixed him up with someone else) was one of the facilitators for the technical breakout session and had some excellent pointers with regard to SOA tenets. If that is anything to go by, the FABRIQ session willl be a full-house.
Speaking of SOA, wonder what happened to ShadowFax. Does anyone know?