Microsoft TechEd 2006, Barcelona

I arrived at Barcelona yesterday for the 2006 Microsoft TechEd conference. Phew it's hot. While Denmark has sunk into a state of winter, Barcelona's still hot and humid, it's nice to be able to walk outside in just a shirt without getting a cold or being appointed to a mental institution.

We only had a couple of hours during the day before the arrangements for the night began. As I haven't had a chance to upload my pictures yet, I'll postpone my trivial tourist blogs until a later point, after all, that's not what's interesting.

In the evening we went to the Tapelia, one of the finest tapaz restaurents in Barcelona. Tapelia hosted a "Danish" evening where everybody from Microsoft Denmark, the danish MSP's and the Danish Microsoft affiliated customers / users were invited. After eating a good meal and getting a few drinks, I and a couple of the other MSP's got into a lively debate with a two guys from IBM, the topic was C++ vs. .NET... More exactly, C++ vs. the .NET Garbage Collector. It's great to be able to discuss the classic religion issues in person at a competent level, in contrast to the usual net debates.

I won't go into the rest of the evening as it didn't really involve anything but .NET discussions and alcohol - a great mix!