DevDays are over

The last couple of days I was at the DevDays and I enjoyed it for most of the time. There were a couple of sessions that made me waste some of my time (at some I even dozed off). But there were others that I fully enjoyed. The session by Sara Ford was fun because of her enthusiasm and energy. At one point in the session she (tried to) persist that a particular functioned wouldn’t work. But, I’ve go to hand it to her, she still followed some hints from me (sitting in the front row as ever) and was perplexed that that function did work. She got down from the stand and bowed for me in front of a 100 people or so. That was fun.

I also very much liked Rob Miles’ session on Micro .Net. He is a fun speaker and he showed how easy it is to create software for embedded (tiny) systems. I will definitely try some of that stuff out, if I can get my hands on some hardware that doesn’t need fiddling with. I’m a software guy and definitely not a hardware guy. Rob’s session on XNA was not much more that the first two pages of the tutorial, so that was a waste of time I’m afraid. I was baffled that he didn’t know MS Surface supports XNA too. Should have known…

I also ran into some former colleagues and it was nice to get up to date about their (working) lives.

Monday it’s back to work again. Although the rest of the Netherlands will enjoy a day off, I won’t (because I forgot it was a holiday and I promised some work to be done).

Not much technical stuff this time, but: if you are a Visual Studio user, check out Sara Ford’s web site for the VS tips. I’m sure there are a couple that you didn’t know and will like. I know I picked up a tip or two.

Bye,

Bart