UK Vista and Office Developer Launch tour hits the road
The Vista and Office developer launch is fully under way. Yesterday we did the "live" recording for the sessions that will be delivered on Friday at Thames Valley Park in Reading. It was pretty daunting and I'm sure I will be up for some stick when people see me present inside Windows Media Player but I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the experience.
A big thanks to Rich Griffin from Conchango for talking about his experiences of working with WPF for a real customer wanting to create their next gen service on top of Windows Vista. Very cool and a top fella for coming in at the last minute and presenting (embarassing himself) with me on the video. Hopefully, we'll get to do more with Rich and co over at Conchango - they have a great community of techies over there and it would be a shame to not work together on our shared interests of technology!
Next up is this Friday and Saturday with the official developer launch with Sanjay P delivering the keynote and my teammates and I following up with the technical content on Vista and Office 2007.
And after that, we take the content out and on the road - UK Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch Tour:
MONDAY 22 Jan: We will be in London, inlcuding a session with Beazley based at Lloyds of London.
TUESDAY 23 Jan: We stretch from Southampton in the company of iMeta to Coventry where the NxtGenUG are hosting a public event at Coventry Airfield - we'd love to see you there in the evening.
WEDNESDAY 24 Jan: Starts in York at the offices of IOKO before crossing the Pennines to another public session with the Manchester Digital Development Agency who would be delighted to have you join us. We're also looking forward to an evening in the company of some like-minded 'geeks' if you're free.
THURSDAY 25 Jan: Includes a late afternoon event with Bolton University and Net North West and you are welcome to catch us here, and we'll be around before the presentation if you have questions :-)
FRIDAY 26 Jan: We round the tour off at the University of Northumbria in the early afternoon and the long, long drive back to Reading.
There are a load of opportunities in every major area of the UK (well, technically England - we can only have the car for a week and limits are ability to get further afield). I'll be taking tonnes of photos and videos, and generally documenting the whole journey - think of it like Ewan McGregor in the Long Way Round but with developers and a Short Way Round instead :)
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Anonymous
January 21, 2007
Friday past was the main developer launch event for Windows Vista and Office 2007 at Thames Valley ParkAnonymous
May 22, 2007
Back in January the team hit the road for a week long series of presentations at software companies and