TechEd 2010 Day 1

Here I am back in Berlin for TechEd EMEA 2010, although actually posting this at the beginning of day 2.  Signs of cut-backs are obvious: no longer do delegates get a branded laptop bag filled with assorted pieces of tat, this year you get a carrier bag.  Yes dear reader a plastic carrier bag!  Well I did my best to make up for that ensuring that I got a fair amount of conference/vendor crap memorabilia.  The Welcome Drinks event was sponsored by HP and looking at the amount of beer consumed by the 6000 delegates I cant see them being in a position to lower the prices of their servers anytime soon.

I’m starting day 2 with a level 400(!) session looking under the hood at the Application Compatibility Toolkit.  Here’s hoping that all the caffeine I had at breakfast starts to kick in pretty soon…