back to it

I got back from Chicago late yesterday morning after a rather uneventful flight (except for me starting to feel ill -which I only wish was from a previous night of carousing).  I flew out to the Windy City to speak at the Microsoft .NET Experience Expo at Motorola; I did the forum session on Building Mobile Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework along with Derek Ferguson. 

For not having met or had any rehearsal prior to (other than tossing the PPT back and forth while we were working on it), it went very well (and, of course, we knew the subject matter rather well).  The only issue was that the projector would crop the left side of the screen when I used my laptop to host the PPT – I transferred the deck to the podium PC and all was well. 

It was great to be out at the Motorola campus and talk with people about what they are doing with .NET (not just CF).  Unfortunately, I didn’t run into any of the folks responsible for putting Windows Mobile for Smartphone on any of their hardware – I would have loved to chat with them (and would have asked for more Moto hardware with Smartphone).

I also got to have dinner with Mike at a great little Indian place and chat for a few hours – it was good to get some time with the boss-man.

Unfortunately Thursday turned out to be not so good.. like I noted earlier, I started feeling ill on the flight home.  By the time I got home I was feeling rather ill and ended up sleeping it off for the better part of the day and not getting any work done on the reliable messaging stuff I’m working on.  Thankfully, I feel much better today and have a few blog entries to knock out as well as my MSMQ / RM stuff (woohoo!)

-Nino