Tech-Ed 2008 Wrap-up
I got back home to Boston after having a great week at Tech-Ed. It really was a good show. I met a lot of new people as well as catch up with some friends in the industry. There really was a lot of great content and dialogue around SharePoint to help all of us in our quest to keep learning more and more to help our clients get the best possible results. Thanks again to Tom Robbins, Chris Bowen, and Bob Familiar from Microsoft for taking us to dinner, introducing us to some great people, and really going the extra mile.
I learned about a couple tools used by the presenters to make our lives easier and wanted to pass those along to everyone:
Expresso: A regular expression builder was very interesting and will come in handy when the federated search components are added to MOSS very soon.
Fiddler: A http traffic sniffer to help you look at the breakdown of items loading on your pages. Thank you to Andrew Connell for showing this off. It was eye-opening to say the least watching him run this tool on a SharePoint page.
Speaking of Andrew Connell, I just wanted to point out what a great session he did on the last day about building your SharePoint applications with performance in mind. Not only was the content excellent, but as usual, his presentation style was engaging and interesting.
I hope to see everyone again next year,
-Ryan