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Monday was an excellent day. I arrived at the airport on time, checked in, and spent another 50 minutes or so in the lounge before getting to the gates to leave for Developer and ITPro Days in Belgium. During the security check, I overheard the airport personnel muttering about "..... mhmhm .... snow ... mhmhmhmh ... bad luck ... mhhmhmhm".
Arriving at the gate it suddenly became clear to me. Snow. Lots of. Passing horizontally.
Long story short: I should have arrived at Brussels Airport at around 9:40 pm but - after several announcements along the lines of "this is your captain, we are going to depart in 60 minutes" and "this is your captain again ... err ... it might take another 60 minutes" - I finally managed to check in at my hotel at about 1:15 am. Good news of the day: the driver who should take me from Brussels to Ghent (45 minutes drive or so) was still waiting when the plane finally arrived. Wonderful!
I had a great slot on Tuesday: the first session right after the keynote. Approximately 250 to 300 people attended my talk on "Extensible Applications. Plugins and Scripting with Attributes, Reflection and Code Generation."
Lots of attendees in Belgium
Tuesday evening, I continued to Basta!2004 in Frankfurt/Germany, just right in time to join the evening BOFs. (on time, no more snow)
Evening BOF at Basta!2004, hosted by my friend Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg
The man behind Basta!2004 at another BOF
Wednesday was my Longhorn Day with sessions about Avalon, WinFS and Indigo. On Tuesday I did a full day tutorial on distributed application development today and in the future.
The week was fun! Next stop: DevWeek London in just about 10 days.
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