Last week the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here launch rolled into Perth. The trip over from Brisbane was around 5 hours including the 20 minutes we spent on the ground at Brisbane airport while the engineers repaired one of the hubcaps on our Boeing 767!  (I didn’t know there were hubcaps on 767’s either)  To top off the flight our landing in Perth reminded me a little of the Lufthansa Airbus 320 crosswind landing on YouTube but fortunately it wasn’t quite that bad.

The Perth event was held at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre which was a perfect venue for our launch activities. Of all the cities we have done on the launch tour, Perth had the largest number of developers actually using Team Foundation Server. This was based on the number of hands that went up when I asked the question anyway.

Here’s the Visual Studio 2008 track at work in Perth

 

Yesterday I was in my home town, Brisbane which meant I didn’t have to get on a plane and even had the pleasure of sleeping in my own bed! The night before the wonderful folks at Microsoft took us out to Kobuki for some great food and a little fun as well. Roger’s blog post included a few photos of the dining experience.

It’s always great to present in your home town as you recognise a lot more faces in the audience and for Brisbane I had William Bartholomew join me on stage to speak about Technology One’s adoption of Team System. This was William’s largest audience and he handled it with ease.

The photographer even found time to catch Kleefy, Kyle and myself standing around in the partner pavilion.

Next week we’re off to our nation’s capital, Canberra for the last of the big shows. It just gives me enough time to get back home, swap suitcases and then off to Redmond for the MVP Summit!