When you think it cannot get worse...

… you end up presenting at TechEd.

Yesterday was fun (of a sort) I ended up doing the demo section of the ESB Guidance session at TechEd. This session was scheduled to be done by Robert Hogg (Black Marble) and Ewan Fairweather (Microsoft) but Ewan had to fly home early unexpectedly on Friday morning, so leaving somewhat of a gap.

So you say, ’that is not too bad you just step in and do the prepared and scripted demo’. Well in a perfect world you would, but about 6 hours before our session was on the formal release of  ESB 1.0 was posted to the MSDN site. As our demo was based on a CTP build, and as we knew the final release was somewhat different, we thought it only right to at least show the new documentation and file structures. So a hectic few hours were had by all.

I hope anyone attended the session go what they wanted out to if. I had to leave for my flight soon after the session so have heard no feedback other than the people who came to chat at the end of the session, who seemed happy. I am sure Robert will know more when he gets back, as his flight was later he had time to return to the olympian heights of the speaker lounge to once more feast upon unicorn steaks and ambrosia (well get coffee in a proper cup not a paper one at least).

As I made the mistake of not changing my TechEd speakers shirt before the flight home, not realizing the shirt made me look like a member of EasyJet staff, my outstanding question is - is there any future event in my life where the lovely grey/blue with orange trim TechEd speakers shirt is appropriate wear?