{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-08T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-08-08T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:20:49","slug":"teched-returns-to-the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Tech.Ed returns to the Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=46\">two years since<\/a> Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/australia\/teched07\/index.aspx\">Tech.Ed<\/a> last graced the shiny sands of Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>I jetted in last night and checked into Conrad Jupiter&#8217;s hotel casino, again, then hit the opening party. Not much has changed at the hotel and broadband prices remain hideously expensive &#8211; yay for media rooms with Ethernet cables and power decks. I didn&#8217;t take any photos at the party last night but there was certainly plenty of action &#8211; including two real electronic bulls to ride.<\/p>\n<p>I also caught up with my good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/frankarr\/default.aspx\">Frank Arrigo<\/a> who tells me he&#8217;s off the US to take on a global evangelism role at Redmond. That&#8217;s my life&#8217;s dream to the word &#8220;evangelist&#8221; on my business card. I&#8217;ve lost count of how many vendor evangelists if come across over the years. Gotta love these holier than thou vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Just shot back the keynote presentation &#8211; an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php\/id;157813653;fp;16;fpid;1\">interesting tale about Animal Logic&#8217;s<\/a> reliance on the now orphaned Windows NT. That makes Animal Logic one of the only digital production houses not using Linux <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=62\">according to<\/a> people <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxmovies.org\/\">in the know<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php\/id;1413475927;fp;4;fpid;1968336438\">apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Logic is using Windows NT, so be it. I doubt the Microsoft Tech.Ed keynote would have been a good look if Animal Logic detailed how all rendering was done on Linux \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s been two years since Microsoft&#8217;s Tech.Ed last graced the shiny sands of Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast. I jetted in last night and checked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,21,23,24,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-events","category-it-management","category-linux","category-media-relations-every-pr-should-read-this","category-microsoft","category-tech-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}