I had a great time last week at the SharePoint Advisor Summit. I enjoyed chatting with all the people who stopped by our booth. I was able to sneak away from the booth to attend a session presented by Patrick Tisseghem on Excel Services. I had not seen Patrick present before and I was really impressed with his session. At the end of the Summit we gave away an XBOX 360 to a lucky winner.
It was good to see the folks from Bamboo Solutions again. Their booth was across the aisle from ours and we had a good time hanging out while the attendees were in the sessions and not browsing the booths.
I met several people in the SharePoint scene for the first time including Jeff Cate, Todd Bleeker, Bill English, Tony Bierman, and Darrin Bishop. During the final night of the Summit we had dinner with Todd, Tony, Darrin, and Patrick. It was nice to be able to introduce my fiancé to these folks, so now she knows who I’m talking about when I come back from SharePoint events and start telling stories about the events.
After the conference my fiancé and I spent a few days in Phoenix visiting friends. The A/C in our rental car broke, and so did the A/C in the replacement car. Driving around in 106 degree heat without A/C is not something I'd recommend. We managed to have a great time anyway. Check out this sweet picture I took of the sunset in the desert.
About tbaginski
Todd began working with WSS and SPS in the beta stages of the products, in 2003. He has architected and implemented intranets, extranets, wireless deployments, and several custom applications with the WSS and SPS platforms.
Todd created the first SharePoint advanced development training curriculum in the training industry for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and taught his first class in December of 2003. Todd also created the first advanced development training curriculum for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and taught parts of this curriculum while MOSS was still in the Beta 1 Technical Refresh stage! Two versions in a row, Todd has broken ground in the training industry by being the first to offer advanced development training for SharePoint!
Todd speaks at many SharePoint conferences including SharePoint Connections, the MS SharePoint Conference, and the upcoming TechEd 2008 Developers Conference. He has also spoken at Microsoft events at the Microsoft offices in both Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also presented several sessions at the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User's Group.
He enjoys spending time with his wife and their dogs, playing and coaching lacrosse, playing hockey, riding his bike in the Rocky Mountains, and skiing every chance he gets.