As many of you know already, I was at TechEd Europe 2009 between November 8, and November 13. The event was sold out, and because of that very crowded. I got to meet a lot of interesting persons, to make a lot of new friends, and to do a lot of activities as well. One very interesting thing that happened to me, was that Intel got an eye on me before TechEd was even started. Prior to my Birds Of a Feather “The Future of Parallel Programming” a team from Intel came to me and asked if I agree to be filmed during my session, and after that interviewed, so they can publish it on “Intel Software Network”. The answer was yes, and the result is here:”Video chat: The future of parallel programming”, and here:

So now I am on YouTube! :)

Anyway, it was a very busy week. If you go to ThechED online and lookup my name on the session list you will get 17 hits. More a about those sessions in a future post. I was as well member of the jury panel on the first day of Speaker Idol contest, and worked on the Hands On Lab Area. I did as well some interviews for the www.cloudcasts.net with Tess Ferrandez, Paula Januszkiewicz, Karen Young, and Jon Flanders.

One thing I didn’t like, was that there weren’t any activities for speakers. So the only place to meet other speakers was on the speaker lounge, but  almost everyone was using the room just prior to their own session, so everyone was very stressed.

This week I am at PDC, and I plan to attend the preconference day on Patterns of Parallel Programming, and then to do some more interviews for the www.Cloudcasts.net , so stay tuned.

Tibi

And I am very stressed. :) But that is normal. And if you don’t believe me, ask anyone talking in public. But that is a good thing. According to some is an indication that you care about what you are doing, and you want everything to go perfect. And that is exactly my feeling. :) I’ll let you know later how it went.

/Tibi

My second post on this blog was TechEd Rocksand I wrote it right after I returned from TechEd North America in LA. And that was my first TechEd ever. My second TechEd will be in November, but this time I will be there as speaker. I have right now 8 approved sessions, and some more on the way. AFAIK the record is 10, so my chances are pretty big to beat that record. Anyway, beside my sessions, I will work on HOL area, as a favor to a friend, and I intend to continue my “Five minutes with…” series of interview for Alan's CloudCasts site. All this info will be available on this blog so, stay tuned.

/Tibi

Long time no blog. :) One of the reasons I haven’t done it for so long is because I was very busy. Between October 11 and October 14, I was in Bulgaria for a conference, or better put for THE conference for developers, organized in Central and Eastern Europe. The conference name is DevReach. There were a lot of Internationally renowned speakers, Microsoft Regional Directors, MVPs, INETA Speakers, and some of them all those together;). The quality of the conference was very high, both content wise and organizational. The price, very affordable (100€ for 2 days, or 150€ for the VIP Pass), the venue hotel was a 5 stars hotel and the price per room is under 100€ per night, and if you buy the flight ticket in good time, then you get a cheap deal on that too, so the total price will not be more than 600€. And in Europe you won’t find a conference of such caliber at this price.

I asked some of the speakers why are they coming such a long way to this conference. The general answer was, because they are passionate about what they are doing, and they want to share that with the rest of the world. Most of the speakers have come to this conference since it started three years ago, and they intend to come as long as they will be invited. Another reason that was very popular, was because the organizers threat the speakers very well, and for that I can vouch personally. One thing I know for sure, is that next year I will be there, even if I will not be invited as speaker. Why? Just to met with those guys. In my next blog post I will include a link to some videos I took on this trip, as part of my show called “Five minutes with…”, and hosted by My good friend Alan Smith on his site CloudCasts.net

What does this have to do with Multi-core? Well, I was there to deliver two sessions, one called “Practical parallel programming with VS2010”, and one called “Patterns of parallel programming”. Both sessions were very popular, and generated a lot of discussions around the subject of parallel programming. I had discussions with some of the speakers as well, and they were very interested in this subject.

So what is next? First Öredev , where I plan to attend the Erlang programming day with Joe Armstrong, the creator of the language, and then the Meanwhile track on  Friday. After that TechEd Europe, where I will deliver 6 sessions, one of them called “The Future of Parallel Programming”. After that PDC, for a preconference day about “Patterns of Parallel Programming”, of course, and after that MCC09 an workshop on Multi Core Computing. So I will be quite busy. Why all that trouble? Because Parallel Programming is as inevitable as object orientation was 15 years ago, so we need to act soon.

Best regards,

Tibi