Well, Rich, Matt, Nate and I just got done with our presentation at the Pittsburgh .Net Code Camp at the University of Pittsburgh.  This was the culmination of a week of Chaos.  Topped with last minute heroics and nervous expectations, we really pulled of a decent talk.

It started with an idea, write an application that would be hosted in Windows Azure using Silverlight 2 and WCF Web Services.  This seemed simple enough to do.  Create the Azure Development Fabric, write some code and deploy to the cloud.  Well, perhaps it would have been that simple if we weren't dealing with CTP (Community Technology Preview) technologies.

The pain started with Azure Table Storage, WCF integration and finally connecting everything to Silverlight.  We spent 20+ extra hours this week in preparation for the talk, including Friday night until 2 AM (I guess that would be Saturday morning.), and getting up and getting to Pitt early to work on it again.

There will be a couple of posts coming outlining the specific difficulties that we encountered and how and if we were able to overcome them.

The funniest part was, I opened the talk with the slide show and going over some of our findings.  In the meantime Nate and Rich were out in the hallway trying to get some last second changes in.  Was it the prettiest presentation ever?  Not by a long shot.  However, it served it's purpose and we got through the whole thing.

Now, we received an invitation to submit an abstract for VS Connections in November, so we'll repackage this presentation and submit it for VS Connections.  It would be cool to be able to do this presentation for a much larger audience.

Now, I'm tired, with 15 minutes until the next presentation.  Then home to my boys.  I haven't seen them in two days, so I miss them tremendously.