Two weeks ago we had the great opportunity of flying across the Atlantic and head out to London for the 3rd
Route64 event. We flew on a Sunday and arrived Monday completely jet-lagged. The people from
WinGear had some issues finding power cables for the 24 machines that we needed for the event. Fortunately for us, the people at
Microsoft Chertsey had plenty of spare ones and made our life a lot easier.
We were astonished on how punctual the English lads are - some were waiting at the venue 1.5 hours before the event started! The
Microsoft Chertsey training center was amazing. We had three projectors that simultaneously displayed our presentations – this made it possible for all attendees to have a perfect view of what was going on. The projection system was created by
Barco Designs, which coincidentally had sent one of its employees to the
Route64 event. He had most of his code ported and reached brick wall when he found that he did not have some required libraries for his project.
Overall, the labs went extremely well. We received great comments such as “information provided was clean and concise” to “well structured examples with enough ideas and examples for relative novices to grasp the fundamentals of porting 32-bit to 64-bit. Thanks!” We really enjoy receiving positive feedback at the events, it makes everything worthwhile. Make sure you check out the London Gallery Section of pictures of the event!