This is without a doubt the most fun at a conference I’ve ever had. The hotel we are staying in (JW Marriot in Las Vegas) is amazing. Maybe Coar’s Tours should do a review haha (inside joke). But seriously the pool area is huge. That is where I am at this moment with my Tablet PC on the Verizon EVDO network.
I’ve done far more pimping of the Tablet PC platform than I have of my own Sylantro development efforts. The thing is, my presentation was targeted completely wrong. Apparently I misunderstood that the session called “Developer Roundtable” which I (a developer) was asked to speak at would only have about 5% of the audience that were developers. About the same percentage raised their hand when I asked how many used Microsoft .NET with their Sylantro deployment. Not good, but completely expected. After all, up until now, Sylantro has pushed the Java platform for integration. Their API’s were EJB and CORBA based. Only recently (and not even released yet) were there web services and even more recently (at Supercomm) did they announce a partnership with Microsoft and a plan to port to Windows.
So my intention is to help build up the Sylantro .NET community which they need to thrive in the Windows world. But I’m not coming away with much else from the conference and I don’t think I got through to many people. But like I said, it was not my target audience.
With that said, I am having tons of fun here in Vegas with Heather. We spent most of today by the pool and in the hot tub. We were completely alone in the hot tub which is kinda secluded. I can’t say enough how beautiful this place is.