.Net Jonesie - Travelling

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Travelling by peter@jonesie.net.nz

I'm off for a trip today. First stop, a week in Johannesburg to install the first cut of our .Net 2.0 system for the customer, and to do some training. Then an overnight stopover in Frankfurt and 5 nights in Seattle where I'll be attending the MVP Global Summit.

The system I'm delivering to our South African equivalent, ATNS, is a fairly standard 3 tier app, using SQL 2K, a web service wrapper around the data tier and a winform front end. The system is not quite complete yet, but this will be our first roll-out of a .Net application. I'm not expecting any nasty surprises, but just in case, I'm traveling with 2 notebooks and copies of the source code and binaries on each and CD, plus all the tools I might ever need - MSDN disks, RedGate tools, VS05 beta 2 and August CTP, 12 pairs of socks etc etc. On the way over I need to complete the training documentation - it's a 20 hour flight via Singapore so as long as I can power either of the notebooks on the flight, I should be ok.

I wasn't so sure about the MVP Summit. I first thought this might be a bit of a talk-fest but given some of the recent announcements at PDC, I now think it will actually be very interesting. Paul Andrew has old me he is presenting a session, not doubt on WWF and there's a bunch of Aussies and other Kiwis also attending. I've also arranged to meet with my TAP contact on Team System product group. I don't think I'll be bored!

Now all I need is a connection so I can update my blog. The AirNZ Lounge at Christchurch doesn't have any visible connections - wired or otherwise -so I suspect I'll have to update in Singapore.

Sunday, September 18, 2005 12:36:23 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

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