Bits from TechEd 2008
I was at the TechEd 2008 in Orlando this year. It was my first TechEd experience and I can say that the experience has been great. Content was great, speakers were great but being surrounded by 6,000 techies was priceless. It looks like it’s not just the attendees and speakers who are geeks. Here is a shot from my hotel room:
And one of my favorites, the Windows 2008 mascot:
Although I had previously read articles/listened to most of the presenters I had the chance to meet and discover really great people like Mario Cardinal and Roy Osherove. I strongly recommend reading their blogs.
Windows Live Writer
I recently came across Windows Live Writer that enables creating of blog posts from your desktop. It integrated very nicely with the WordPress setup that I have on this blog. I just had to enter the web address, WordPress username and password, and it took care of the rest. A bunch of blogging applications are supported out of the box, and there are some more plug-ins out on the net if your blog provider is not included by default.
I have to admit that having to use the web interface is a major hassle. Especially when I am not online (in-transit) I want to post a couple ideas. I really think that all bloggers should really stop using the ugly, not-so-responsive browser based blog interfaces and give this a try.
