It's a strange feeling getting on a plane in Seattle Friday afternoon, travel for 24 hours, and wake up Sunday morning on the other side of the globe.  I just got back to Melbourne from the 2008 Global MVP Summit in Seattle/Redmond. It's been an amazing week, with some great technical content and some good parties with new and old friends. The MVP summit is an annual event where Microsoft invite their MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) to talk about future technologies and collect feedback from the developer community. The last couple of years the Microsoft Regional Directors (which I am part of) have also been invited to the summit. This year I think there were around 1800 attendees to the summit. It was great to finally meet many of the faces behind the blogs and mailing lists I frequent on a daily basis. As for the technical sessions I spent most of my time in the client development (Silverlight/WPF) track. I can't go into details on the content, as most of it is NDA, but I must say I'm getting more and more exited about the Silverlight platform.

This week is going to be really busy, catching up with the Silverlight project I’m currently involved with. We’re talking with Microsoft about featuring the project on REMIX in Sydney andMelbourne. I’ll post more about it if that goes through. Next weekend I’m off to CodeCampOz in Wagga Wagga, and I’m looking forward to see many of the guys I met at the MVP Summit again. Hope to see you there!

Check out photos from the Australian MVP Summit delegation