Hello from Tech.Ed On the Gold Coast

Posted in Coding, IT, Travel, Work by Will on August 9, 2007.

The Gold Coast has put on some great weather - nice and cool at night, warm and sunny during the day.
I’ve taken a bunch of photos during Tech.Ed, I’ll upload them soon. In the mean time - Nick Hodge has heaps of photos on his photo stream.

I’ve attended a bunch of interesting sessions - but there’s a heap of information on offer, so it’s easy to overload.

Next year I think MSFT needs to organise a few more social-networking things around the events. For example, get attendees to put ‘teched07au’ tags on photos on Flickr, and blog posts, etc. Use SMS-broadcasts (possibly through twitter) to inform people of session changes and things like that (link it back to their commnet subcription).
I’ll probably think of a bunch of other small improvements as time goes on.

Overall, it’s been good fun the last few days, and I have learnt things which are relevant to my job, and which will help a little further on too.

I’ve also successfully avoided the vendors who want to steal my information so they can sell me stuff.

Updates - LOLCode.NET, Movieworld, Bye-Bye Developer Guy

Nick gave his LOLCode presentation, to much incredulity by some people who attended.

Yes, LOLCode is a proper Turing complete language. And LOLCode.NET compiles into MSIL as well.

Movie world was… interesting. About 3,000 people were packed into busses and trundled up to movie world for dinner and some rides. There was the BatWing, Superman and a few others - we didn’t have access to the full park, but there was a large area open.