*** THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON WORLD WIDE even as we speak! ***
The wrap up of the day:
Saturday morning was nothing short of sensational in Sydney today, early morning sun,
bright blue skies, smell of coffee and a city that felt like it was snoozing and waking
for some playtime.
I walked into a room of curious minds, eager eyes and folks that were thinking of
possibilities in technology. This technology was Windows Azure.
We were above capacity & for the first time I would be relieved if there were
a few ’no-shows’but none happened. Even at 5pm we nearly had a full house.
Firstly I’ve got to thank – you the students for a great day, fantastic questions
and giving your precious weekend time.
Secondly the expert speakers that have huge experience in the field.
- Mark O’Shea – Paradyne
- Olaf Loogman – author of a popular Win8 app CyclingTracker – Breeze
- Don Jayasinghe – Breeze
- Mick Badran (yours truly) – Breeze
and finally all the sponsors & people that helped enable us to
bring this to you:
- Breeze – www.breeze.net
- Microsoft – www.microsoft.com
- Paradyne – www.paradyne.com.au
-
Saxons – www.saxons.com.au (great training
facilities) -
Sara Ward, David McGhee & Christian Longstaff – for their tireless efforts, technical
expertise and event organisation.
What were the plans for the day:
The Agenda was set to:
|
SYDNEY |
Start |
Duration |
Speaker |
|
Introductions |
9:15:00 |
15 |
|
|
Compute |
9:30:00 |
30 |
Mark |
|
SQL |
10:00:00 |
30 |
Don |
|
Lab |
10:30:00 |
60 |
|
|
Cloud |
11:30:00 |
30 |
Mick |
|
Building |
12:00:00 |
45 |
Olaf |
|
Lab |
12:45:00 |
60 |
|
|
Virtual |
1:45:00 |
30 |
Mark |
|
Connecting |
2:15:00 |
30 |
Mick |
|
Lab |
2:45:00 |
60 |
|
|
Q&A |
4:15:00 |
Some Interesting facts:
– we had 3 MVPs in the room (that I knew of)
– we had 2 Microsoft VTSPs
– a student drove 3.5hrs one way to be here with us during the day, then back to Canberra
again after class. Massive commitment.
– we all came with Azure Subscriptions ready to go.
– a student created a WebSite, Database + Worker role working in a solution together
during the day.
– Olaf has his Mobile Services demo fail (even though it worked at 10pm last night)
due to the recent Azure Portal update at 2am this morning. He did have a PlanB, the
autogenerated code from the Portal during the Mobile Services Application creation,
generates un-compilable code for now. Well done Olaf, some nice tap dancing.
(Olaf working his magic)
(looking out to the North Wing)
Thanks to Magnus a fellow Azure MVP – for setting all this up world wide and good
luck to all the other countries.
If you blog about it – then be sure to use the hashtag #globalwindowsazure.
Mick out.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran