SolidQ played a leading role at Microsoft’s Tech- Ed Conference and Expo in Barcelona as the only Spanish-speaking company in attendance. Francisco “Paco” González and Maciej Pilecki represented SolidQ Iberoamericana as speakers at the two-week event for developers and IT Pros, with Maciej winning a speaker medal. In addition, Eladio Rincón, a representative in the Ask-the-Experts section, participated in the Speaker’s Idol contest whose winner receives an invitation to speak at the following year’s conference. And SolidQ’ Marino Posadas interviewed many outstanding participants and speakers at the event for dotNetMania (www.dotnetmania.com), a leading magazine for .NET developers published in Spanish.

Paco presented his session, “SQL Server Integration Services: Capturing Changed Data to Load into Your Data Warehouse,” to a full house. He also spoke about similar topics the next day in an interactive session called “Tuning your Data Warehouse Load with SQL Server Integration Services,” which gave him the opportunity to talk to attendees about their SSIS tuning experiences and different points of view.

Maciej, who spoke during the conference’s second week for IT Pros, led a session called “DAT 401 Dude, Where Is My Memory? Understanding SQL Server Memory Usage and Management.” Maciej also won the Bronze Medal in a contest that gave presenters from around the world just 10 minutes each to present on a programming subject. The contest featured three preliminary rounds and a final round of the top four presenters. Rafal Luckawiecki, a “Best Speaker” winner at Tech Ed many times, headed up the jury for the contest’s voting session.

 

 

On the journalistic side, Marino sat down with the following experts to learn the latest about their areas of expertise: Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for the Popfly and Visual Studio Express Developer teams; Ted Pattison, president of the Ted Pattison Group and well-known author of COM and Visual Basic books; Joe Marini, group product manager for Visual Studio Industry Partners; Pat Helland, former architect at the Microsoft Transaction Server and SQL Server 2005 developer teams; Jessy Liberty, recently hired by Microsoft as the “Silverlight Geek”; Damir Tomicic, president of INETA Europe User’s Group; Catherine Heller, evangelist in Redmond for Windows Live, and Don Syme, program lead manager of .NET Generics and now working on the new functional language F#, whose impressive numeric calculations and 2D and 3D graphical representations of functions he demonstrated. (Read all these interviews in DotNetMania magazine, available in Spanish in Spain and Latin America.)