Jean-Paul Smit

Today when I walked in the conference center in Amsterdam it was almost as if I was at the wrong place. It was completely empty. The post conference day with a IT pro and a developer track was filled with only about 100 people.

Of course I attended the developer deep dive by Wouter van Vugt. Yesterday I attended his session about workflow and was overpowered by his speed of speech. Today he presented in a for me more relaxed way.

The things he covered were ‘what is a developer box’, ‘how to upgrade from 2007 to 2010’ and UI customization. Although there were a lot of attendees interested in BCS it was unfortunately not covered. In my view there was not a real agenda about what to cover and what time to spend to it and suddenly it was 4 pm. It was very interesting to see what can be customized in the UI, but as an integration focused developer I would have liked to see more of development behind the scenes like workflow and BCS.

The overall feelings of the SharePoint 2010 connections in Amsterdam are mixed. It was good to see so many familiar faces and talk to so many people, on the other hand the sessions were not that good and if you’re interested in SharePoint and follow a bit what is blogged about it you soon know more than is shown in the sessions. The catering was also limited, especially this third day. Not even a snack during the coffee breaks…...

So what’s next?

Time to spin up my server and get started with some BCS myself :-)