I've been learning some new things about Eric Sink at TechEd. Last night at the Boston Billiards I learned that Eric loves to play pool! He owned one of the pool tables for hours! Impressive. I'm a rotten pool player and was definitely at my usual worst last night!
Today I hung out with Eric and one of his partners, Dan Schreiber, a bit at the SourceGear booth, next to the booth of SourceGear's sister company, Teamprise (that was new to me!)
I thought it would be fun to find out some inside scoop stuff about Eric that might not be known to the world, but that quickly digressed into a typical geek discussion. I asked Eric if he had had a chance to get to any sesssion... No. If he could go to sessions, what would he like to see? I wasn't surprised to hear WPF as his answer. Here's why. Another technology he was curious about was WCF. SourceGear Vault uses web services and they are all secured through HTTPS. How convenient for Eric that he happened to mention this curiosity to me. I was excited to find someone who wasn't already way ahead of me about WCF so that I could explain to him how WS-Security is used to secure messages at the message level without using HTTPS, how WSE3 simplifies this for us today and how WCF will add Reliablity and Transactions to the mix and that at the entry level, it will all be easily configurable through xml.
Eric and I have a lot in common and I learned that short term memory problems are also on the list. We like to think it's because of how busy our minds are with so many details in our life. I think it's really just age (my hubby thinks it's Lyme disease) though I have a better excuse than Eric since I'm a bunch of years older!
Anthony Rizk from Idokorro, one of the many fans of Eric's fabulous blog, stopped by the booth to say hi to Eric. Here's a picture of the two.
