{"id":4128,"date":"2012-09-12T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:07:23","slug":"teched-day-2-ah-so-this-is-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/09\/12\/teched-day-2-ah-so-this-is-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"TechEd Day 2: Ah So This Is Journalism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say I was enthused at the prospect at getting up at 7:00am this morning to meet with all the other media people over breakfast but I figured I should make the effort, if only for the fact that free food is hard to turn down. It was a bit of a struggle but nothing compared to attempting to do the same in freezing Canberra weather, something that I&#8217;m thankful for the brief respite from. After the breakfast and a quick chat with everyone we were whisked back down to the showcase floor to have a cosy session with some of the Microsoft guys, their customers and some solution providers.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m honest these kinds of high level talks bore the crap out of me. I understand their place, they&#8217;re great for people who aren&#8217;t into the nuts and bolts of technology, but for someone like me who lives and dies by their understanding of how to implement\/configure\/maintain things they&#8217;re just not that useful. After that it was off to our session choices for the day and I had chosen a path that was focused on virtualization\/cloud topics which turned out ok, save for the couple sessions that were simply not worth attending. In case you&#8217;re wondering the sessions I attended were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VIR312 &#8211; Whats New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Part 1<\/li>\n<li>WSV313 &#8211; Architecting Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012<\/li>\n<li>AZR314 \u00a0&#8211; Azure SQL, Tables, Blobs, Queues, Cache, Hadoop &#8211; Which one is right for me?<\/li>\n<li>VIR315-\u00a0Whats New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Part 2<\/li>\n<li>VIR316 &#8211; Comparing Private Cloud Capabilities<\/li>\n<li>DEV317 &#8211; WinRT Deep Dive (I was going to do some Cloud Auth thing but this looked better).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VIR 312 and VIR315 well worth attending as they gave a really solid overview of the new features in Hyper-V 3.0. I had read about most of them before but it was great to get an introduction to those things that aren&#8217;t usually covered in much detail in marketing material. Those two sessions were the basis for the first part of my blog for LifeHacker (which will be up tomorrow morning I believe) with the second half being based on some of the things I gleaned whilst attending the cloud sessions. The sessions I&#8217;d probably skip catching up on are WSV313 and VIR316 as they&#8217;d only be useful if you&#8217;d never designed a virtual infrastructure before or if you you weren&#8217;t capable of comparing Microsoft and VMware&#8217;s offerings. The last two were really just for me, although I&#8217;ll probably use some of the info I got from them in tomorrow&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"TechEd 2012 Australia Helicopter Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?resize=668%2C501&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was also lucky enough to win one of the helicopter rides because I tweeted something non-generic at the right time. It was a pretty quick affair, just a 15 minute jaunt around Broadbeach and Soutbank but it was pretty awesome to get a birds eye view of the place. I certainly didn&#8217;t expect to win when I entered with my slightly bizwank-esque tweet but obviously the people behind the account love to indulge in a little geek humour.<\/p>\n<p>The whole day was really entertaining but thoroughly exhausting. When I wasn&#8217;t in a session or a helicopter I was up in the media room review my notes from the previous session and attempting to draft up the post for the day. When I was first told that I only needed to do one post a day I didn&#8217;t consider it much of a challenge, I mean I&#8217;ve been doing exactly that for years now, but its one thing to research a single idea and write about it and a whole other thing to try and\u00a0distil\u00a06+ hours of content into a single blog post. I think I did a good job of getting at a couple ideas I believe are key (and the editor liked it) but I&#8217;m so exhausted that I&#8217;m not sure how the greater public will recieve it.<\/p>\n<p>But then again I don&#8217;t usually know that anyway \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say I was enthused at the prospect at getting up at 7:00am this morning to meet with all the other media people over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"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":[4],"tags":[3854,3853,1663,3856,3855,3844,5586],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-broadbeach","tag-helicopter","tag-ride","tag-sessions","tag-southbank","tag-teched","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TechEd-2012-Australia-Helicopter-Ride.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-14A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}