Posts Tagged ‘Comdex’

I just received these comments 10 minutes ago:

Dear Corey,

My name is Justin Doh, and I have met you at the Comdex at the ASP.Net booth.
I chatted with you on Monday.

I was able to find your websites and read about your works.

Thank you for the opportunity to know about Project Hurricane and know about you.

I was very impressed with professionals like you in the IT field who have knowledge and passion in what they do.

As a web developer, I got more motivation to become MVP in ASP.Net someday!
I am still in the process of learning C# and ASP.Net myself.

Justin Doh
www.nexcore.com

That’s awesome, I haven’t even had the chance to send out emails to all the people whose business cards I collected. I’m glad I was able to help you out and get you excited about the MVP program and Project Hurricane. That’s partly what the MVP program is all about.

If you’re really interested in learning more about ASP.NET and a little bit more about C# I’d like to recommend giving Project Hurricane a whirl. You can grab a copy of the source and then start playing with that, it should give you a nice jump start and provide a good base to build upon. If you wrote a plug-in for it that would even be better! We’re actively trying to get developers to develop ontop of PH everyday.

Thanks again for the email!

I’m planning on posting up my experiences of my 2 nights and 2 days of Comdex but I wanted to be sure and get this video up first thing. As a note I should point out that security was pretty darn tight throughout the entire show. No cameras were being allowed in on the show floor and for the Bill Gates keynote speech no photos were allowed after the first 60 seconds. Unfortunately I was found out by one of the security ladies and was asked to turn off the camera before I could grab the entire video, making things worse my Canon PowerShot G2 only takes 30 second clips at a time, even with the 1GB MicroDrive in there . To add to the stupidity, I completely forgot to start recording audio from the start on my iPAQ 5550, doh! I’ve got to go through everything I captured still since there might be some more goodies, if so, I’ll be sure to post it . So without further ado I bring you the Comdex 2003 Steve-o Matrix (Microsoftrix) Parody video.

[UPDATE: Overnight my connection was hammered, I had to take the link down just to get on MSN Messenger so I could get the file moved to another server that's not just on a 128K up DSL line (hopefully that'll be 1500K up soon). In any case once I get the file copied over I'll put the link back up.

Sorry for any inconvenience and stuff like that ]

[UPDATE: As I was talking to my MVP lead an email arrived in his box that asked him to ask me to remove the video. It's gone now, sorry about that.]

[UPDATE: I've noticed a lot of referrerals to this page lately, guess that's kinda cool. I've also had a number of requests for the video, but really, I can't give out the video. I promised a friend I wouldn't and I'm sticking to that. I put up another video which honestly you probably won't even want to bother with. I'm pretty sure this one isn't sanctioned like the actual Steve-o Microsoftrix video :-). It's a minute long but be warned after seeing it once imagine sitting through 15 minutes of it! You'll understand the title after that ]

[UPDATE: Okay this should be the last update to this entry. I've just been getting a few emails and a few IM's asking if there is more video. There's also been a couple threads like on Slashdot, GeekNewz, etc. In any case I just wanted to reiterate that I don't have anything else in terms of photos or video. If I did I wouldn't be able to share because I've been asked very very nicely by Microsoft not to (read: never warned, no fists, nothing, just a nice suggestion from a friend). If there is a full video out there which I doubt since it probably would've turned up by now, please do feel free to alert me to it. I think it would've been quite difficult to sneak in a DV, even a really small one and most people probably didn't bother switching their digital cameras to video clip mode ]