MVP Summit 2010 Ends

The day began like any other morning and MVP turnout at breakfast was quite scanty. A few MVPs had left at the early hours of the morning while the others are still in bed after a long night at the Garage, downtown Seattle.

Keynote was at 9am with Nestor Portilo and his supporting entertainers on Stage. Quite some new NDA stuff which I consider cool. A lot of new eye-opener to the Bing Paradigm. I enjoy that session most though

Find more picture of the summit at My Picasa

Summit is now over and all I got left are the side sessions and a party tonight with Nerd Dinner.

MVP Summit Day 1

Arrived at Bellevue yesterday aternoon like a few other MVPs but not much activities though. My MVP lead (Ruari Plint) was benevolent enough to take all MEA MVPs out to the PumpHouse for dinner.

Day One of the summit begin with MVP registration and the side sessions commenced 12pm till 3.30pm.

All MVPs were looking forward to the Keynote address with Nestor Portillo and Toby Richard.

Got my Team Canada Hockey shirt too

Thanks Mitch...

Later went rookie bowling at the Lucky Strike Lanes just across the sky bridge.

Hi Pal!

A dear friend I met at the summit earlier in the year.

He had this as cover of his presentation in China just after the summit. Hi Pal!

ResolverOne - IronPython Spreadsheet

   I met Michael Foord (the kind of guy that runs Windows on MacPro. He also wrote a book IronPython in Action still in print by Manning ) recently and he was so passionate about what he's been doing in the IronPython  Space. He has this cool programmable spreadsheet application dubbed ResolverOne . Believe me, this will make you never want to touch VBA. 

A  similar implementation was demoed at Mix09 by John Lam (the IronRuby guy) with Silverlight 3 - this I learnt came with deep multimedia capability and can run out of the browser sandbox to run on the GPU.  ResolverOne is a pretty cool implementation of spreadsheet and I am yet to imagine the bound of it's limitation. You could actually do anything imaginable about spreadsheet. I have revved this since the summit and still amazed how easy to import any existing python library and use user custom functions/libraries. 

MVP Summit Update!

Arrived at the Seattle on March 1, after a very long flight and airport waiting. Checking my Lagos local time, I realized I had been awake for over 29 hours. That's crazy. My head was heavy, I was quick-tempered too.

Finally checked in to The Westin Hotel around 1am Seattle local time. Replied mails and other web stuff for another hour and went to Bed.

My room mate is a great guy - Joel Hebert. He happens to be a ASP/ASP.Net MVP and that was cool and can you believe it, he already has a solution hosted on Microsoft Azure. I find that very cool too.

The next morning (March 1st) was rather dull at first, woke up around 8am and showered quickly. Went to the Washington State CC for registration and had breakfast just around there and attended the MVP2MVP Sessions.

Quite a lot of brilliant presentations from the guys which I will discuss later in my blog post after the event and lots of pictures too.

Gearing up for the Summit!

Gearing up for the upcoming MVP Summit! Cool that I will be able to attend this year's edition. Almost always saddled with so much around this time of year that I will have to bust plans of attending at the last minute! Breaking up the ginx this year! I should hope that's a good sign.

This year is particularly different, not only my decision to attend crippled by saddled workload, also the global financial crisis is dealing a good blow and the unexplainable diving of the Nigerian Naira against the USD. But I still gotta attend all the same.

So much I am hoping to gain this year apart from the Great View of Seattle from Top floors of The Westin Seattle. Another great opportunity to relate with the C# team apart from the mail relationship at Private Newsgroup and the C# Insiders and much more.

I am also hoping to meet the Channel 9 Team (probably they may feature me in one of their videos). and much more ..