I have attended yesterday to a presentation about SharePoint by Patrick Tissegem and Inge De Neef (?could not find her blog?). Inge, sorry for the question :). Patrick was presenting through a VPN and doing live stuff on this SharePoint site (Inge also did live manipuation). It did not crash, amazing. This was my first contact with SharePoint and it looked like a terrific product for creating intranet, but it also appeared to me that it could quickly become a mess if you start tweaking it!

I also met a lot of fellow belgian bloggers. Since I'm not good with names, I must have forgotten many but here are the people I saw and spoke to: Jan Tiellens, Tom Mertens (MSDN content manager I think), Thomas Delrue (who will be doing an internship at Microsft as SDE/T this summer), and I forgot the other... Make yourself heard :)

There was also a surprise from the MSDN team before the presentation where Tom said:

"We have two .Net gurus in the room[...] I would like you to give a warm applause to Jonathan de Halleux and Thomas Delrue[...]".

I must say I was not easy with that, but he then said:

"Microsoft has a gift for both of them[...] bottles of champagne[...]"

Then I was much more relax :) :) :)