Today was another more-than-full day at the ODC! A few highlights:
- Rajesh Jha and Gurdeep Singh Pall both gave fantastic keynote presentations:
- Rajesh talked about the future release of Office Live Small Business and I have to say I was very impressed with the capabilities. Developers can learn more at http://dev.officelive.com.
- Gurdeep's talk was on Unified Communications and included some very impressive demos. The thing that really caught my eye was a preview of some of their future capabilities. In one demo they showed a SharePoint workflow that included a step for checking presence information - so, when a new task is created the workflow would check to see if the assigned-to person was online; if so, the user was sent an Instant Message with a link to the newly created task. VERY cool!
- I saw a chat on using SharePoint's Web Services given by Paul Swider. I also saw talks on "Building Mashups with Office Live Small Business" by Robert Green and a FANTASTIC presentation on "Using LINQ to XML to Query and Transform Open XML Documents" given by Eric White.
- Later I was lucky enough to chat with Mike Hernandez and other members of the VSTO team about their latest release of VSTO.
- Tonight was the night of the Attendee party at TheTech Museum of Innovation. Very fun stuff! My highlights for the evening:
- Rode on a Segway
- Performed a space walk (scored 4 in 60 seconds!)
- Survived a simulated Magnitude 6.4 earthquake
- Got a robotic arm to spell SharePoint in alpha-blocks:
