I swear a good day lasts forever. This day lasted a long time. Let alone this week was pretty good too. First off this unrelated, but I have an MSDN Premium Subscription with Team Systems, so I can finally develop at home without any issues. How awesome is that? I can do what I love to do for fun without have to use trial copies and uninstalling and reinstalling programs. It gets so annoying after a while. I am so excited, because I can finally do the real playing that I want do with Server 2008 and SharePoint. Anyway, so you probably wanted to see the stuff about the Regional SharePoint Conference...
I sort of met Bob Fox on Friday night. I thought it was him and my suspicions were confirmed on Saturday morning. He comes up to me and says "I know you" in this real sarcastic tone...Dude's a real interesting guy. He reminds me a lot of my Uncle Harvey. Who is a real joker and likes to mess with people. He's can be a very sarcastic guy too. It makes me feel a little better about my speaking experiences knowing that he gets pretty nervous when he goes out and speaks with people. I feel bad that I missed his session, but I debated long and hard about his session vs. Paul Galvin's Session. I am glad that I went to Paul's session, because he talked about creating custom actions in SharePoint Designer and provisioning sites. I thought it was cool how he started up this workflow in SharePoint using a list and then showed us how to create it with Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer. He has a CodePlex Project out there with some samples that I really want to play with when my MSDN goodies arrive. Jumping back a notch I met some really great people setting up...Gary Vaughn, who is in charge of the whole event. He's a really nice guy. He seems like one of those wise sages who has been around the IT Field for a while and can teach a lot to people around himself. I also met two very cool people. They remind me of some of my parents friends who I really like. There names are Janice and Harold Brangman. I spent a lot of time with Janice. She's a very outspoken, but very cool person. I usually try to hang out with people I am most comfortable, so Paul Galvin and Janice Brangman kind of felt like people I wanted to hang out with. Paul, though, reminds me of a lot of my friends back home. He's very cool and liberal and laid back. We spent about 3 or 4 hours just sitting around chatting about everything from cats picking up mice and killing them to New Jersey, Cape Cod, and St. Louis. I guess you follow someone's blog and there Twitter sometimes you just get a feel for that person. I predict that Paul will be an MVP the next cycle. At least I'm hoping. He is the most deserving person I have ever met in my entire life (well him and John Ferringer). Ok so other than Paul Galvin, Bob Fox, and the Brangman's I also met Rachel Appell, Wes Bryan, and a bunch of other people (I am sorry I don't remember everyone's name). Everyone I met was really cool and really great. I have not met anyone I really disliked so far. I wish that I felt less like a zombie today and was cooler. I felt like one calorie of myself, because this bed was a little on the hard side. I was fueled with a lot of caffeine and awesome people. I am glad I got to talk to Wes Bryan at Bamboo Solutions a bit about alerts and the guy who did the Disaster Recovery Presentation from AvePoint, Tony Lanni. I'm really exhausted and I bet you get the jist of the awesomeness of this conference, so I think it's time for me to pass out...No I really don't think it will matter what the bed quality is when I am this tired, so my sleep should rock...
posted @ Friday, June 27, 2008 10:21 PM |
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