Euro Tech·Ed Time 2009

It’s that time of year again, when 5000+ programming geeks descend upon a European city of Microsoft’s choice (in the last few years it’s usually been Barcelona, intermingled with Amsterdam) in this case Berlin. TechEd* is an unrelenting ‘fire hose’ of knowledge about Microsoft products and for a few years TechEd Europe has been split into two tracks, IT Pro’s (let’s be kind about them or they may delete our email and restrict our internet access) and Developers. Each is a separate conference and attracts around about 5000 people. As an aside I find the split it kind of disappointing as...