Well TechEd US is over for another year and it was a great event to be part of. This is the second year now that I have weighted up the time off and the travel time to decide if it is worth the trip and both times I haven’t been disappointed. I have the hope that in the next few years it might get back over to the west coast where I might be able to get away with just one flight instead of needing one or more connections within the US.

One of the best things about going to TechEd is the great people you get to meet while you’re there. On my list of things to do at TechEd was to purchase the newly released “Software Engineering with Visual Studio Team System” book from the convention bookshop. As a bonus, Rob Caron arranged a book signing with a group of VSTS authors. Sam Guckenheimer and Juan J. Perez where there to sign my copy of their new book. I about 4 chapters in already and the book is great! It is also appropriate that while I mention Juan, I remind everyone that Personify Design officially launched their TeamLook product at TechEd 2006.

Juan and Sam

Next in the book line, were three of the authors of the Wrox Press book entitled “Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System”. Christopher Bowen, Jean-Luc David and Noah Coad were all on deck signing copies of the book and it was great to meet the team and talk about all things Team System.

Richard Hundhausen rounded out the list of authors lined up for the book signing and he was signing copies of his “Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System” book. Many TechEd US 2005 attendees will be familiar with Richard’s work as countless copies of his “Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System” book were given away at the event to help promote VSTS & TFS.