Just got back from Tech Ed Aus 2009

Last week I attended Tech Ed Australia for the 5th time in a row and what a great time was had by all.  I did plenty of networking (really means beer drinking with delegates) and attended a bunch of cool sessions and I even delivered a lunch time session on my fave topics, DotNetNuke, Silverlight and RIA Services. 

I went to a bunch of Silverlight/UX sessions by Shane Morris (Microsoft) which were excellent and really brought home to me how much room for improvement there is the application/site design UX space.  So Im really going to be pushing some of his recommendations and finding ways to convince clients that there are better ways they just have to trust me :)

Jordan and Mahesh who both work with me at Readify gave an excellent session  on architectural considerations when building Silverlight applications and Jordan also had a going deeper with Silverlight session that I can’t wait to get my hands on the code from.

I also went to see John and Bronwen from Soul Solutions do a session on spatial data and the Bing Maps Control.  That was an eye opener.  I had heard about spatial in SQL 2008 but had never used it, now I’m going to use it on my current project to display some mined data.

Thanx everyone who I met and caught up with it was a great time.