Over 3,200 people came to Barcelona to be a part of Tech·Ed EMEA Developers - wow, wow, wow.

For your five days in Barcelona, there are opportunities to engage in hundreds of learning opportunities, whether it's meeting one-on-one or in small groups with Microsoft product team members, meeting Microsoft MVPs and latest solutions and technologies.

Key Speakers

Jason Zander - General Manager Visual Studio Team, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation. He s one of the person at Microsoft whom I want to see action and fortunately he delivered the KeyNote. In his KeyNote he speaks about Visual Studio 2010, the next release of the market leading Visual Studio toolset. This release delivers advances through the following focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM). In his keynote, Jason talks about what the team is doing as the leader of the Visual Studio division at Microsoft to make a developer’s job easier with this release and provide extensive examples with Visual Studio 2010 demonstrations.

Pat Helland
Partner Architect, .NET Development Platform, Microsoft. I really enjoyed listening up the KeyNote from Pat, great enthusiasm, passion and convincing style. Pat started with the background of  Data centers, where they have consumed 1.5% of the total electricity in the US in 2006 and are on track to double as a percentage every five years.  It is about 2% of the US total in 2008.  Western Europe’s use is increasing at a slightly faster rate (from a slightly lower base percentage).  The consumption of electricity within data centers is of significant financial and environmental importance.

    * Where the heck is all this power going?
    * Why is the electrical load increasing so much?
    * What can be done about it?

This talk will examine both traditional and emerging data center designs.  We will start by examining how a data center is laid out, constructed, and managed.  We will show two emerging trends:  the change to designing data centers for the optimization of power and the emergence of new economies of scale in data centers which is contributing to the drive towards cloud computing.  Microsoft is actively moving to compete in the space of cloud computing as we are seeing at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) a few weeks before Tech·Ed EMEA Developer.

Next, we will examine the sources of waste in the system today and examine why so many of our resources are underutilized.  Because we are reluctant to share computing resources, they are left idle much of the time.  Why is this currently the dominant choice?  What can be done in the design of applications, systems, and data centers to make them more green (both carbon and cash)?  What can developers do to make a difference?

Moving further there are amazing and stunning Developer Tracks that I will write in a different post.


Bandagi!