Where have I been during my MIA days?

You may have realized by now that my recent blog posts are not in chronological order. But I think that this is better than not blogging at all. Life's revolved around TechEd SEA 2008 since the past one month. Check out my profile on the TechEd SEA 2008 website here. My session synopsis are all on this site, just search for my name.

It was also the first month in Microsoft's new fiscal year of FY09, which starts in July every year. That means plenty of business meetings with my ISV partners, especially with managed partners to ensure we start the new fiscal year fresh with good plans, and means to bring in the results.

While preparing for my session that was titled SharePoint To Go!, I holed up in my study room for 4 days straight in sharpening that rusty coding-Swiss army-knife of mine. It was enjoyable and very satisfying to say the least. In doing that I learnt a great deal about the Microsoft Sync Framework, which has since RTM, and also played with one of the app blocks in the Smart Client Software Factory.

The week before TechEd SEA 2008, I was in Seattle to attend an internal technical conference called TechReady. It was also a satisfying and unforgettable experience as I won the Top Performing Partner Evangelist award. The award comes with a Flip video camera, which sadly I haven't had the time to start using it yet. I should have used it at TechEd to do some video recording of the crowd. It wasn't all party and drinks in Seattle, I had to go back to my hotel room every evening to continue working on my demo!

In a later blog post, I will surely explain what were my key learning, steps, and resources I came across while developing the demo for my TechEd session. While I was thinking about how best to retain and share the knowledge, an idea was born. This will be my pet project for this FY, and I hope to have more details of that at a later time, perhaps around Oct timeframe. Meanwhile keep reading my blog. Cheers!