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Schuberg Philis has sent me and 4 colleagues to Berlin to attend the TECH-ED over there.

Together with another 7000 techies, this is a week of planning, running, eating, experiencing all kinds of (new) technologies presented by Microsoft guys.

Feeling some blisters already, because I’m not used to running so much on a day, especially with a Lenovo T500 on my shoulder. The Berlin Messe is a huge place. But the overall sense of the MCE’s is that we are enjoying the sessions. Not all session are that good, but for instance Mark Minasi is good fun to watch and hear.  The food and beverages (very important) are good and plenty.
Technically we are not always that challenged, in many occasions the depth is lacking, but then again, it is a mass-event and not everybody is a (potential) MCE.

On Monday MS presented a Keynote, and all of us were very disappointed. Nothing new, lots of marketing blabla. Cloud computing (Azure) was the keyword here. (Literally, we counted over 100 times them using the word “cloud”.)
Reading back this sounds a bit negative, but in fact, we are having a good time. Discussing a lot about the statements made in the session, exchanging the different sessions we’ve attended, thus learning a lot. Even writing the blogs is a good learning curve. We are all cupfighters, and don’t want to blog rumors and rubbish, so for each post we do a thorough background check.
Berlin sightseeing is mainly done via U and S-bahn, ample time to discover the city (this is in case our bosses are reading this post .

We’re looking forward to the Country drink on Thursday, organized by our employer together with Microsoft (http://www.schubergphilis.com/countrydrink).

If you’re Dutch IT-pro, come and join us there. You will find the Schuberg Philis style of organizing a party is an experience not to be missed!

Next couple of days more sessions, and we’ll keep you posted if we hear some nice things.