TechEd 2005 - Mumbai
Just returned back from Mumbai TechEd and it was great fun. This is the first time that I'm getting into the Mumbai city. All along, I used to always transit to any foreign country through Mumbai, but have never visited the city itself. Its quite a choc-o-block city with traffic everywhere and the time that I went was right in the middle of the moonsoon and it was pouring like crazy! This is a time that the city actually suffers from the onslaught of the rain and normal life can be easily disrupted.
In spite of the rain and other associated issues, I must give it to the localites for having made it to TechEd. We had a good crowd of around 600+ and my sessions on SOA in Databases and ADO.NET 2.0 changes were well recevied. In fact, both the sessions were over-subscribed and I had to thus repeat ADO.NET 2.0 again (something that normally does not happen :-)). I could not repeat the SOA session as I had to leave for the airport. But, overall the enthusiam and questions on these sessions were very good and people generally liked the features.
We also introduced a new chalk-talk on the migration aspects from SQL Server 2000 - 2005 and I beleive that it was received well too. Overall, it was great fun and a very good crowd.