*** THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON WORLD WIDE even as we speak! ***
The wrap up of the day:
Saturday morning was nothing short of sensational in Sydney today, early morning sun, bright blue skies, smell of coffee and a city that felt like it was snoozing and waking for some playtime.
I walked into a room of curious minds, eager eyes and folks that were thinking of possibilities in technology. This technology was Windows Azure.
We were above capacity & for the first time I would be relieved if there were a few ‘no-shows’…but none happened. Even at 5pm we nearly had a full house.
Firstly I’ve got to thank – you the students for a great day, fantastic questions and giving your precious weekend time.
Secondly the expert speakers that have huge experience in the field.
- Mark O’Shea – Paradyne
- Olaf Loogman – author of a popular Win8 app CyclingTracker – Breeze
- Don Jayasinghe – Breeze
- Mick Badran (yours truly) – Breeze
and finally all the sponsors & people that helped enable us to bring this to you:
- Breeze – www.breeze.net
- Microsoft – www.microsoft.com
- Paradyne – www.paradyne.com.au
- Saxons – www.saxons.com.au (great training facilities)
- Sara Ward, David McGhee & Christian Longstaff – for their tireless efforts, technical expertise and event organisation.
What were the plans for the day:
The Agenda was set to:
SYDNEY - topics | Start Time | Duration (Minutes) | Speaker |
Introductions | 9:15:00 AM | 15 | |
Compute & Storage/CDN | 9:30:00 AM | 30 | Mark O'Shea |
SQL Databases & Reporting | 10:00:00 AM | 30 | Don Jayasinghe |
Lab Time & Break | 10:30:00 AM | 60 | |
Cloud Services | 11:30:00 AM | 30 | Mick Badran |
Building apps on azure | 12:00:00 PM | 45 | Olaf loogman |
Lab Time & Break | 12:45:00 PM | 60 | |
Virtual Machines & Networks | 1:45:00 PM | 30 | Mark O'Shea |
Connecting To Azure | 2:15:00 PM | 30 | Mick Badran |
Lab Time & Break | 2:45:00 PM | 60 | |
Q&A Planning Session - questions from the floor | 4:15:00 PM |
Some Interesting facts:
- we had 3 MVPs in the room (that I knew of)
- we had 2 Microsoft VTSPs
- a student drove 3.5hrs one way to be here with us during the day, then back to Canberra again after class. Massive commitment.
- we all came with Azure Subscriptions ready to go.
- a student created a WebSite, Database + Worker role working in a solution together during the day.
- Olaf has his Mobile Services demo fail (even though it worked at 10pm last night) due to the recent Azure Portal update at 2am this morning. He did have a PlanB, the autogenerated code from the Portal during the Mobile Services Application creation, generates un-compilable code for now. Well done Olaf, some nice tap dancing.
(Olaf working his magic)
(looking out to the North Wing)
Thanks to Magnus a fellow Azure MVP - for setting all this up world wide and good luck to all the other countries.
If you blog about it – then be sure to use the hashtag #globalwindowsazure.
Mick out.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran