As I mentioned in my first post Hege and I spent the weekend in Barcelona which was great. We went and saw the Barcelona - Real Batis game. What an experience! Ronaldinio scored two amazing free kick goals, Real Batis didn't stand a chance. Anyway, TechEd is halfway through and so far the event have been great. The keynote didn't have too many big announcements, but at least we know that VS2008 will ship (online) by the end of this month, so it's really really close guys! The coolest part of the key note demo was Dan Fernandez showing how they've used the Visual Studio Shell to build a custom IDE to create World of Warcraft plugins, with a custom UI designer and full intellisense for the WOW script language.  Awesome stuff! I also attended Dan's talk on Popfly which also was really enjoyable.

I've been dropping in on various sessions related to the things I'll cover in my Web 2.0 event in Oslo November 20, and in 20min I'm going to the "WCF and the Web: AJAX, REST and Syndication Services in Web 2.0 with .NET 3.5" session. This is exactly some of the things I'll cover in my talk in Oslo, so figured I'd drop by to see if I can pick up some tricks to show you…

The "Silverlight, ASP.NET and Web Services in IronPython and IronRuby" was another really interesting sessions. It's amazing how far the IronPython project have come, and I really hope I can apply dynamic programming in a work related project in a not to far distant future. Dynamic languages on top of the CLR enables some really powerful scenarios, and I also think that these new sets of languages are going to attract new developers to the platform…

Edgar Stokka, a colleague from Capgemini Stavanger, have created a dedicated TechEd 2007 blog over at http://techedgar.blogspot.com where he have posted about his impressions of the event, and a bunch of pictures. So for more impressions of TechEd Barcelona head over to his site.