Welcome to TechEd 1999!
 July
12 - Throughout the past week the staff of Developer Network Journal
has been in Amsterdam bringing you live reports from Europe's largest
developer conference, TechEd Europe 99. On these pages you can read our
in-depth session reports and interviews, find out who was doing what in the
exhibition, and check out the parties, competitions and merchandise.
TechEd reports
The main meat of the event was, of course, the technical sessions. The
stage was set by Paul Maritz,
group vice president of Microsoft's developer group, with his keynote
presentation. Meanwhile, our roving band of reporters were reporting
back from a range of sessions and discussing many of the concepts and issues
raised with a number of key speakers. More
 Exhibition
reports
This year over 100 companies exhibited at TechEd. Here you could view the
latest hand-held devices from the likes of Hewlett Packard, and find out
who's doing what in the COM component and enterprise development market. More
Fun stuff
Thankfully, it wasn't all work at TechEd 99. Almost every night saw a party
of some kind, culminating in the (in)famous TechEd
Party, and there was plenty of scope for testing the capabilities of
DirectX in the games area. Then of course there were the competitions and
the merchandise - there's much more to those conference bags and T-shirts
than you might think! More
Won an alien?
 And
then of course there was the DNJ competition! After hanging around our
stand for four days, we are pleased to say that Jijina the alien -
together with the certificate stating she is a genuine film prop from the
X-Files movie - has found a new home with lucky winner Ivan Rene Jessen
from Denmark.
Ivan's winning caption, to a photo
depicting Jijina standing in an Amsterdam street, was "Where did I go
today?" Honourable mentions also go to Charvi Parikh for
"I'm already a Certified Film Prop; now I'm on my way to become a
Certified Microsoft Professional"; Infostrategy Ltd for "This
latest Microsoft Planet-less, State-less, Thread-less programming paradigm
is really cool"; Michael Shalev for "I really should have
passed on that last beer..." (we know the feeling, Michael!).
Finally, Chris Haddon almost won with the following:
"I'm on the run from the X-Files team,
After coming to this planet to be seen.
Sculley and Molder are hot on my tail
So I'm going to Tech-ED to lose their trail.
I look strange and weird, much like a freak
So can easily pass as a computer geek.
Many thanks to all of you who took part, and we look forward
to seeing you all again at TechEd 2000!
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Additional session reports and comment
Who's exhibiting at TechEd 99
Fun stuff
VUE offers free MCP testing at TechEd 99
Report on TechEd US, held in Dallas in
May
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