Yesterday saw the first event of TechDays Ireland in Galway. There was a good turnout and they got to see sessions from 3 speakers including Rhonda Layfield (deployment MVP from the USA) and Niall Flanagan (SQL MVP from Ireland). Niall had a particularly tough challenge – how to talk about the basics of managing SQL to non-DBA’s in 40 minutes. He did a cracking job. There were a few nerves as laptops started acting up before the event but all fell into place in the last 10 minutes.
I didn’t blog – I don’t want to give away the material while the sessions are ongoing. Instead, I’ll be twittering little bits here and there with a #TechDays flag.
Afterwards a good deal of people hung around in the bar and we chatted until the wee hours. We missed the last opportunity to order food so Enda from MS ordered in pizzas to the hotel from Domino’s. Sweet!
I’m off to Cork today for tomorrows event – I’ve a detour to make a stop along the way. I’ll check in and do some work from the hotel tonight. Then it’s on to TechDays in Cork. The agenda is different than last night with more of a focus on pure IT pro material. Myself and Dave Northey from MS will be doing a “Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 Better Together and Hyper-V R2” session. I’ll do the death-by-powerpoint while Dave does the demos. We rehearsed yesterday – the demo’s look very cool.
So if you’re in the south and the agenda sounds like you’re cup of tea, register (for free) and come along. There’s a draw for an X-Box Elite and 2 TechNet Plus subscriptions for those who attend, fill in their feedback forms and stick around for 5 minutes for the draw (the latter does help!)