Techwave 2008 - It's all good baby!!
You know it's a good sign when the food starts tasting much better :) That is how I compare year after year. For some reason, I personally felt a lot of energy and optimism from attendees and had great traffic at my booth. More than that, there were many great questions from the folks attending the conference, which is always good.
I managed to stay reasonably busy in the SUP booth with good traffic although there was a lack of chairs. We were positioned next to the various techathlon events that were being held and I managed to show off my non-existent footie skills.
I'm excited getting closer to release date for SUP. It's been an excellent group effort to get it out considering we had teams in Paris, Pune, Singapore, Shanghai, Xian, Dublin, London, etc. Hardest was coordinating conference calls within the teams. Techwave gave me a chance to start putting the message out with real demos and there were some good questions about the product that we've also been thinking about and it validated some of our future direction. The developer tools message was well received by the audience and they felt that would simplify their development efforts a lot.
And I did have some fun too. WHIVSIV :)
Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers!
Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers! John Strano here, Technology Evangelist for Sybase. You know, I really do consider myself ‘Joe PowerBuilder’, having been a developer, having taught PowerBuilder, and having learned a mountain of stuff from those who'd program rings around me when I first met them. Frankly the greatest source of what I’ve learned over the last 17 years is my peers. Guess where the greatest concentration of your peers will be this year? Of course, TechWave. PowerBuilder has been more than central to my career, just like for many of you. And to keep both our careers moving full steam ahead, I've been working with the PowerBuilder teams to assemble technical sessions that’ll be presented by some talented peers, education sessions and an informative plenary session covering the latest and greatest news we have for PowerBuilder. This’ll all be showcased at “PowerBuilder Central”…our annual TechWave conference held in August.
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TechWave Registration is now open!
Join us Aug. 4 – 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference.
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TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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More 2008 Thoughts...
Will 2008 be the year of Connecting Users in the Enterprise?
Personally I think 2008 will be a great year and this is why...
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Do you have to change your thinking?
Over the last few years, with respect to mobility, I've always mentioned innovation as being a key deliverable and extending value, with the phrase… Don’t just extend - innovate!
Only after attending a recent Gartner event in London that covered the evolution of Enterprise Architectures and the impact of new delivery channels like mobility and being lucky enough to listen to a fantastic Keynote speaker (ASN), I realised that the way I was stating was correct, but many of us techie's fall into the a trap, without even realising it.
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Nordic TechWave 2007
During October 15-18, we are touring the Nordic region with many excellent presenters addressing ASE, SOA, Mobility and then some.
Unfortunately, Norway on October 16th has been cancelled.
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What approach is best?
Ask different people and you get different answers...
Top-down or Bottom-up, which approach is best?
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Make my SOA to go please!
Let’s review Service Oriented Architecture or SOA. SOA isn’t a vendor technology but an architectural style of distributed computing, whose approach is a methodology to help you improve the flexibility of your IT. Following the SOA architecture will eventually get you to the goal of having created services. Where each service interaction is self-contained, loosely coupled and each interaction is independent on any other interaction. Interactions in SOA are built around web-based standards that enable the communications of messages or data exchange, such as XML, SOAP & HTTP.
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