As mentioned previously, I plan on "blogging" about, or possibly even from, the Toronto instance of Launch Tour 2005 this coming Tuesday. Unfortunately I've yet to hear if there is any sort of public connectivity at the venue (I sent an email to Mark Relph this morning, but alas - no reply. Maybe one just needs to blog about these things nowadays to get any respect - Mark, if you read this tell me if there's connectivity there. Thanks!), and I don't plan on using my exorbitant cell data rate for uploading pictures, so we'll see. It may not be posted until that evening. We'll see.
On another note, apparently the Canadian audience will be given "special editions" of the Standard Edition of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 (what's special about them? Maybe some sort of license clause like "don't do anything commercial with it"). I'm not quite sure why this even matters, as presumably most of the audience will already have it via the MSDN library. Freebies at events are usually a bad thing as they draw people for all of the wrong reasons - I hated being at Comdex LV and trying to get real info, but instead you're fighting with throngs of geeks trying desperately to get a free $5-value t-shirt (coupled with exhibitors that built their entire presentation around giveaways. Yeah, I flew here so I could get a free pen and a tote bag emblazoned with some embarrassing logo).
Mark needs a better digital camera I think.
On getting answers - we have a large experts area in Toronto for the event. So, you will actually be able to get more info and not so many t-shirts.
On the camera - is was the webcam in my office :-) My digital SLR wasn't handy.
On connectivity - I will find out today and let you know.
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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.
Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.