{"id":92,"date":"2008-08-03T23:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-08-03T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:32:35","slug":"teched-2008-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/teched-2008-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"TechEd 2008 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95 aligncenter\" title=\"teched-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/teched-2008-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, TechEd South Africa started today. So far it&#8217;s been fun. As usual for the local TechEd events, the sunday was the opening keynote and a nice party. Some points that struck me during the keynote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft is heavily pushing the virtualisation technologies, including Hyper-V<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/systemcenter\/softgrid\/default.mspx\">application virtualisation<\/a> looks fantastic for large corporations<\/li>\n<li>Silverlight 2 looks very cool<\/li>\n<li>Still no release date for SQL Server 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have nothing particularly technical, just a couple pictures of the opening party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/party1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-93\" title=\"Opening Party\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/party1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/party2.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/party2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-94\" title=\"Opening Party\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/party2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, TechEd South Africa started today. So far it&#8217;s been fun. As usual for the local TechEd events, the sunday was the opening keynote and a nice party. Some points that struck me during the keynote: Microsoft is heavily pushing&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/teched-2008-begins\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-teched-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}