Me @ Microsoft Tech.Ed 2005

I finally went for the much awaited Tech.Ed 2005 show held at Waters Edge, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.

The event started off with a cool thabla and drums musical show with flashy lighting effects and high tech sounds. For a moment, I was stunned and was wondering whether I came in for the right techie event! :)

After the intro, and after some keynote speakers, it was straight down to techie sessions.

There were four parallel sessions going on at one given time; so you got to choose among them and decide which sessions you are most interested in. As a developer and enthusiast in Microsoft technologies, that became quite a difficult choice for me. For example, I had choices like Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Windows Mobile, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Vista sessions. You go for one, you miss three others!

This was the first time we had such an event in Sri Lanka, and yes, there were some minor glitches especially due to bad coordination and time management in some sessions. At one time, one session went on longer than it was scheduled, and once it was over, the people in that session could not attend the other sessions from the beginning since those were already started on schedule. The organizers should have better coordinated this. Maybe we'd do better next year.

Overall, it was a great event with loads of techie sessions and fun!

Thats me near the XBox gaming zone.
The last day night was a fun night with loads of Microsoft giveaways, hot dancing and booze! :)

Yea, Microsoft style fun!