I had the pleasure of going to TechEd North America 2012 in Orlando. With a lot of interesting news comming out of Microsoft it was 5 very exciting days. While I was away I did some blogging on the company blog (in danish).

As you might expect Azure and Windows Metro style design were the big topics of the conference. With Azure finally taking a direction that I think makes it interesting, and Windows 8 in general looking like the next milestone for Microsoft it was really good.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the first ANUG lightning talk this wednesday. It was a fun to dive into the subtle differences between Nancy, ServiceStack and WebAPI. As with everything else – it is always more fun when you win the battle of course :)

The demo and slides are available at dotnetnerd.dk/talks/webapi.zip - along with a small sample of using type providers in F# for building a WebAPI service.

I have been offerede the opportunity to give away two tickets to The Progressive .NET Tutorials in London, which take place from the 5th to the 7th of september 2011.

The event consists of twelve 4-hour hands-on Workshops which provide a deep dive into advanced topics for agile .NET developers. The topics include Gherkin, WebSharper, RESTful web services and Async methods in C# 5. The tutorials are in-depth, hands-on tutorials run by experts who are there to be quizzed, questioned and interrogated for all three days. The program and list of speakers including the infamous Jon Skeet can be viewed here.

To participate in the draw for the two tickets all you have to do is write me a short email at [email protected] with a reason why you should be the one to win!

Even if you don’t win I’ve got your back, if you wish to participate. You will get a £50 discount if you use the promocode: “PROGNET50” – but hurry up because there are only 125 tickets available.