I did 02 wonderful sessions for Tech-Ed India one in Web track and the other in SharePoint track. I had very good level of participants and I was waiting to see my feedback ratings.

Here they come…

• Session 1 – Deploying Web Apps at the speed of your Thinking – 6.44 (no of participants-462)
• Session 2 – SharePoint 2010 Workflows – 7.21 (no of participants-244)

Overall average for the Tech-Ed India event was 7.13

Thanks a lot for the people who joined with me for those 02 sessions and really appreciated your feedback.

Hope to do couple more great session in year 2011.

I’m writing this post with great pleasure to announce that our corporate site (http://www.solidq.com) went online today with SharePoint Server 2010. I’m really happy with that and this is going to be a very good example for other Microsoft Partners as well.

We see lot of organizations who do consulting on SharePoint, they have their web site running on either open source or any other technology. But we decided to set an example to our customers and partners by hosting our site with the technology we promote. We have our global site running on top of SharePoint Server 2010 and this exercise was started when the product was in beta.

I’m glad that now I have a real-life example to show to all my students apart from Microsoft SharePoint site. My salute to our IT Support team for their great effort.

Tech-Ed India is the largest technical event the region.  I have heard a lot about the event and this time I got a golden opportunity not just to attend to perform as a Speaker.

I was lucky to get 02 break-out sessions, one in Web Development track and the other in SharePoint Development track.

There were more than 2,000 attendees and it was very exciting to see all of them in a big hall waiting for Visual Studio 2010 launch. We were lucky to launch the Visual Studio 2010 before all others around the world due to our time-zone. Mr. Somasegar along with few other guest launched Visual Studio 2010 during Tech-Ed India 2010.

Talking about my sessions, this is was the largest crowd, venue I have addressed. My 1^st session was in Day 1 and it was in a very very big hall with 7 big projector screens. There were more than 500 people in the session and it was very interactive though it was the last session in Day 1.

My 2^nd session was in Day 3 and it was about SharePoint Workflows. Though that was not such a big hall like the previous one, I had a room-full crowd for the session. Some people were even ready to scarify few minutes from their lunch to stay back and discuss some of the questions/ doubts regarding the technology.

This was my 1^st Tech-Ed experience in India and I will be definitely doing better in 2011.

My special thanks to Rushabh Mehta and  Pinal Dave for encouraging me all the time and very special thanks to Vinod Kumar and Harish Ranganathan for the opportunity to given to present in Tech-Ed India.

Keynote

Soma @ Keynote

Soma Announcing Visual Studio 2010

Demo of Visual Studio 2010

Demo of Visual Studio 2010

Kamal Announcing SQL Server 2008 R2

Me, Harish and Vinod

March/ April are the months of MCT renewal.

I have successfully renewed my Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) credentials for year 2010.

As you remember last year i blogged about the new experience of MCT renewal and even this year they have done the same thing. We now have option to pay by credit card and renew. Hope MCT team will improve it a lot by year 2011.

Guys, I’m really impressed with the feedback you gave me for my TechEd sessions.

Thanks a lot for all of you who took some time to give me your valuable feedback.

Having heard that I’m having the 3rd highest feedback rating (among lot of other world-class speakers), I’m ready to do more and more sessions for you guys to stay aligned with the cutting-edge technologies which Microsoft provides.

Following are the feedback ratings I received from you guys:

• Session: New Language Features in C# 4.0 – Rating: 8.6
• Session: SharePoint Development jus got better – Past, Present & Future  – Rating: 8.0
• Session: SharePoint Server 2010 – Rating: 7.4

Once again thanks a lot for who those who gave me your valuable constructive/ destructive feedback and hope to do better in next TechEd.

And thanks Wela, for giving me the opportunity to wave the Sri Lankan flag.

Today was the busiest day in the TechEd event. I had 02 session, one in the early morning – “New Language Features in C# 4.0“. I had a very good crowd and it was more than the 1st session I did on day 1.

The famous session I did in the afternoon-”SharePoint Development just got better – Past, Present & Future” and it was in the Grand Ballroom-the biggest room we had. It was really interesting to see room-full crowd. I felt very proud and it was one of the best session I did on SharePoint.

Joy @ TechEd 2010

Joy @ TechEd 2010

Joy @ TechEd 2010

Joy @ TechEd 2010

Joy @ TechEd 2010

I’m very much proud to announce that I have been selected as a Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ) today.

My special thanks goes to Rushabh Mehtha, Managing Director, Solid Quality India (Pvt.) Ltd. and my CEO – Keith Samuel for the recommendation and the guidance towards this achievement in my life. It was a very tough task becoming a Mentor in SQM since we have very few, handful Mentors around the globe. I got the God’s blessing to become the 1st ever in Sri Lanka and this is a great great achievement in my career.

My area of Mentoring will be SharePoint and Custom Development and i will get the opportunity work with great set of highly skilled individuals in future.

What is SolidQ?

“Solid Quality Mentors (http://www.solidq.com) is comprised of more than 100 of the world’s top technical experts who specialize in assuring client success using integrated Microsoft technologies. Since being founded in 2002, we have become a trusted global provider of advanced education and solutions for Microsoft Data Management and Development platforms.

As a global provider of training, mentoring, and support, Solid Quality Mentors creates unique offerings, crafted specifically for your organization’s needs. We work daily with the constantly evolving SQL Server and Microsoft Business Intelligence platforms to ensure that your company achieves optimum performance from their Microsoft IT investment and takes advantage of the latest database application features to remain competitive in this ever-changing industry.”

Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ)