a.k.a. the fun part.

Friday 10 November 2006

After TechEd close, we decided to visit the city. Our first objective was Plaça Espagna. It was a very beautiful place with lots of fountains, two towers - The Venetian Towers - and a palace. In front of that palace there were another series of fountains that sprayed the water on the rhythms of symphonic music.

Although we waited more than an hour, the spectacle did not start. So we decided to head towards the harbor to eat.

Beside the 8 of us, Christian mayer with a colleague and Adi Stoian joined us. We found a nice restaurant for dinner. Pretty much everybody ordered fish specialties, myself ordering a plateau of calamari, squids and shark. The shark was the best!

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a.k.a the real stuff.

These two days are the actual reason I was in Barcelona. But let’s start with a little TechEd info for start:

Tech·Ed: Developers is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon-to-be-released products and technologies.

That means valuable information for a software developer.

Each day has a number of 5 session slots, at prefixed hours. For each of these session slots, a delegate could select 1 of ~15 presentations that were taking place in parallel. Because it was physically impossible to attend more presentations, I had to be very careful to select the most valuable session for me.

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I recently had the incredible opportunity to attend the TechEd 2006 Developers Conference, hosted in Barcelona, Spain. I say “incredible” because it was an invitation from Microsoft Romania to me and 6 other Student-Partners from across the country. So I’d like to thank Todi and all the other people that made this possible (you know who you are).

My Student-Partners were Alex Ghiondea, Alex Savu, Sorin Damian, Lucian Baciu, Mihai Tataran and Tudor Damian. Also Todi, the Microsoft Academic Program Manager for Romania was with us.

Because only Alex, Alex and Todi were from Bucharest, the rest of us had to travel to the capital. We all chose the train. It was a pleasant trip, during which I took these photos:

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Hi

So this is my first entry in my first blog. I’m so excited! I want to talk about so many things, but I don’t know which one to start with. OK, I’ll start with the obvious stuff.

1. Who am I…

My name is VLAD Corneliu Tudor, and I am a student at The Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania, Computer Science Department. I am also a Microsoft Student Partner in Romania. I’ll discuss about this later.

2. Why I started this blog…

Well, I was planning it for quite a while, but I was recently discussing with some of my friends from student-partners.com and the fact that I had no blog came up. They immediately formed an alliance and “threatened” to banish me from the National Team if I don’t start one soon. So, I hope it’s not too late.

As I mentioned earlier, I have some thoughts I want to share with the rest of you, and this is the main reason.

3. What I want from this blog…

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