Yesterday Claus, his girlfriend Julia and I arrived to Barcelona. After check-in at the hotel, Claus and I got registered at TechEd (just a few hundred meters from the hotel) - so now we are ready to hear a lot of interesting (new) stuff from Microsoft :-)

We met with Julia's brother, his girlfriend and their daughter who all lives in Barcelona. After seeing their apartment, we went around the city. At the hospital I took 8 pictures, which combined into one in Windows Live Photo Gallery gives this huge photo (I must remember to take more of the sky next time):

After walking around the city we got a little hungry. So at a restaurant I took this picture:

Finally back at the hotel, we went to the bar which was a little boring, as we were the only people down there (probably because of the classical music the bartender loved so much :-( ):

Now I look forward to the first day at TechEd :-)

Wow... today is my 10.000 days birthday... cool... not sure I can remember each day :-S

Hi, my name is Niels Ladegaard Beck. This is my first post on this brand new site. I'm 26 years old and study computer science at University of Aarhus, Denmark. What I'm going to blog about here probably isn't my studying at the university, but more about my big passion for Microsoft and their products. I'm Microsoft Student Partner at University of Aarhus which means, that I'm telling the students about the wonderful world of Microsoft :-)

In the past month I (and my fellow Student Partners, Mark Rasmussen, Claus Nielsen and Jakob Andersen and Henrik W. Hansen from Microsoft Denmark) have given lectures about ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas, Workflow Foundation, securing .Net code and VSTS. These were given at University of Aarhus, University of Aalborg and Engineering College of Aarhus. I talked about Atlas which I find is a very exciting topic. If you want, you can view my slides and my final demo code (the slides are in Danish - a very-easy-to-learn-language ;-)).

A part of being a Microsoft Student Partner is talking about new technologies. So how do I learn about these new technologies? Well... next week I'm going to Barcelona, Spain, to the Tech-Ed conference :-D Simply can't wait!

Wow! That was my first post - cool :-) Let's see, maybe there will be more than this one some day...