The blue bus saga continues..
When morning came, everyone was rested and had slept in their own beds for the last time and we were about to get the (mini)bus from the rental company. It was going to be a long day, we were going to travel to our event in Gothenburg and after that directly to Malmoe. In other words, we had many miles ahead of us today.
This is where we the speed record was achieved. Behind the wheel was Mangus Björk, Exchange MVP, who obviously either does not like being on a buses or just wanted to arrive before he left. Anyway, the rain poured down, and we got some 190 km/h om the speedometer, which we believe is now the official speed Get on the Bus Speed Record. The Community beats everyone once again. =)
Arriving at IHM Conference in Gothenburg chaos broke out, no one knew what to do and when to do it. But somehow the team s experience and the strong drive to deliver great content led to a very intimate evening with up-close discussions about Windows 2008 R2, Certification and Visual Studio 2010. Everyone who attended got not one, but two T-shirts with the E=MCp logo.
Our first session for the evening was Certification 101 by Tiberiu Covaci. One problem however; Tiberiu wasn t there... so Mattias Lind (SQL MCT) and Mikael Nyström (Deployment MVP) ran an improvised session about certification and how certification can help leverage a career. This turned out to be a much appreciated session since it was very up-close and personal and interactive.
After the introduction into certification Mikael Nyström took half of the audience and delivered a session about Windows 2008 R2 from a personal perspective. Being a very skilled presenter, Mikael decided to not use a single PPT-slide to get his points across. The session was basically an ode to "don ts". For instance, how to make a deployment project fail, which turned out to be one of the most appreciated sessions of the bus tour. The session wasn t even close to be "sales-intensive" but rather from a very real-life perspective.
Markus Rytterkull took care of the other half of the room, the Developers, and dove into Visual Studio 2010 and the news of .NET 4.0. Lots of coding examples and demos. MCTs seems to be very hands-on. At the same time Magnus Björk redelivered his top rated session from Stockholm about Exchange 2010 and the new features and changes in architechture in the product.
Straight after the event the bus left for Malmoe and Copenhagen. Everything was loaded back on the bus, and we even threw on a sponsor who brought some beer (not for the driver however). Arriving very late at night in Malmoe I had only booked half of the hotel rooms I thought I had.
In the next and last part of the blue bus saga I will introduce you to our winner, who got a free ticket to TechEd, and how we finally got to germany via Copenhagen.. and also treat you to our PPT-decks.