Some general remarks on Directions EMEA 2008
I hoped to put the blogs online while I was waiting for the airplane, but I didn’t have a connection at the airport. Sunday I had other (more important!) things to do: playing with my daughter and also her performance for her nursery school’s ‘gymnastics essay’ (I don’t find a better translation for the Italian “Saggio di ginnastica” in English nor Dutch/Flemish).
The “NAV” in Dynamics NAV is pronounced letter by letter using the English alfabet and not as 1 word.
I write this because I noticed a lot that people don’t know exactly how it should be pronounced.
I also noticed that most demo’s are done from a VPC. This really has some advantages:
-You don’t need to install anything on your PC.
-Also if someone prepares it and sends it to someone else, you don’t need to worry if the person has installed everything. (Just worry about the fact that the portable that needs to run it needs enough memory and it needs MS Virtual Machine installed.
Also some jokes about me:
-When others were searching for me they just looked for an electric socket because they knew they would find me there writing and blogging.
-Another joke was that they said that I had my portable attached to my hands. Because each time they saw me it was with my portable under my hands.
-I definitly have to learn MS OneNote. Waldo told me (I asked for some tips&tricks for blogging during the events) he used OneNote to write his blogs and also meetings.
Maybe some words about Directions EMEA 2008 (after all THAT was the event)
I can’t compare other events because it was my first one. I find it a great event with a good mix between salesstuff and techstuff.
Neither sales, neither techies could fall asleep while listening (Some did anyway!) to an annoying session (salesstuff for techies or techstuff for salespeople).
I also heard a lot of times that people found it a great event.
Some of those also went to Directions US and they found EMEA was better.
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For me, the biggest advantage of running something on VPC is the “Undo Changes” function. You can do your entire demo, posting invoice, messing up settings, installing sh*t … and the, turn of the VPC and undo everything you’ve done … .
Daddy, next time we’ll also come to meet Mickey…
I don’t know italian but Saggio probably translates to english as Saga. Having said that ‘Gymnastics Saga’ doesn’t exactly sound right.
A Saga is normally a story of epic proportions. So the story of Jonah and the whale from the bible is usually called the Saga of Jonah and the whale.
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