TechEd 2003 Mumbai, Day1

Day 1 Part 1
Tring Tring........
Cell Phone ringing cause me to wake up, It was Raj, urging me to get up and get out of bed, he was on his way to the event.

A quick wash, change of clothes, and I was driving down the highway to the venue.

The first session I had was on Office 2003 for developers.

I reached while the keynote was beginning, LongHorn the video was cool.

Touchbased with Raj and off we were to the Speakers Loung. We re-discussed our presentation. A good half hour later, we had to rush to our session. I started off and Raj chipped in. I did the demo's and let him do most of the talking. I was tired. Needed more sleep ( aah! my bed, couldn't stop thinking about it).

We had a small audience. I guess developers haven't realised the new Office System, is a whole new world for developers. I'm sure the audience sizes would increase as people realised the potential. I certainly am amazed at what developers can do with the new Office System. Its a gold mine in terms of potential. I'll probably explore some of it's features on my blog.

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Day 1 Mumbai Session 2 on Windows Form Controls: Tips and Tricks
The second session which I did was a repeat of what I had done at Bangalore. But in Bangalore I had my friend Raj helping me out, here I had to do this session all alone.
The difficult part was time. It was virtually impossible to do all the demos, they just wouldn't finish 8 demos in all.

After my first session, ran straight to the Speaker's Lounge.
My buddies Raj and Sriram from Microsoft were there, doing what he he preparing for their sessions :-)
I think we're the same kind, last minute runners :-)

Well I began setting up the demo's one after the other oop's my last demo wasn't functioning, this was on using the PropertyGrid control in your windows forms applications.
15 minutes later got it all setup, just in time to run for the session.

Raj and Sriram finished wrapping up their preparation at the same time.

I ran down towards my session hall, had to locate the room :-)

It was in the main session hall in the developer tools track. Got on stage and off I was.

The audience no. was kind of low, so wasn't too happy. But we soon started off with a number of laughs.

I just didn't realise how time flies, I was off to begin my second last demo, when one of the helpers but up a banner of 5 minutes remaining to indicate the end of the session time.
Wrapped up the demos, the audience clapped and I got of stage. Finishing all the demos in time. I really wonder how I did that. I don't think I could do it again :-)

Well that wrapped up day 1 across all 3 cities. Day 2 is happening around the 3 cities in October. But I had to rush off, had to catch some sleep, tomorrow was going to help colleagues from INETA who would be doing 2 sessions, one presentation and a hands on lab on C# for students. More later...