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	Going To TechEd 2005 I’ll be at TechEd 2005, and more than likely my wife will be there too.  I made sure that I signed up for TechEdBloggers, so the that people who can’t go (and who don’t subscribe to my blog) can get my posts on TechEd, and I added the “I’ll Be There” picture to my site.  I haven’t figured out what hotel I’ll be staying at, but if any of my friends have already decided, shoot me an email.  One of the things that I’ve found to be a great asset is to have a place to hang that isn’t at the conference center, typically a place where we could just hang and talk shop.  Usually that means the bar at the hotel which we are staying at.  The ultimate was the 2003 PDC, where the hotel bar had a nice hidden, quiet alcove where we could just hang out, be ourselves, and not have to shout over music or TV. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:45 PM by donxml Filed under: .Net, TechEd Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments Ralph Loizzo said: I truly appreciate that you'll be blogging at all during TechEd. Because of time and money constraints, I'm never able to attend such events. Your efforts to keep people like me up to date are truly appreciated. March 6, 2005 4:00 PM Dan Brinkmann said: Is someone going to start a list of all of the after-hours events going on at TechEd this year? March 10, 2005 9:23 PM Chris Wallace said: I'll be at the Country Inn and Suites (#3 on the hotels map from the TechEd site). March 31, 2005 5:22 PM

About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.