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It's almost time for Tech Ed again, and this year will be a very exciting event! The reason for this is that it will be held at the ICC in my old hometown: Durban . Apart from a few slide-decks and a laptop, I will be sure to take a surfboard! Surfing in Cape Town is really "hard" compared to doing that in Durban!!! (Man do I miss the warm waters and the smooth breaks of the East Coast!) But let's talk more about Tech Ed . This year, once again, there are excellent speakers hailing...
Tech Ed 2006 had lots of beer, lots of sun and lots of really cool smart people. It also had no time for sleep, no women, and no chalk-and-talk agenda for delegates. This year the Chalk-and-Talk sessions' topics or location were not included in the agenda, and delegates thus were mostly unaware of them. Nonetheless, Armand and myself had some smart engineers (guys who have built their own robots) coming to our Robotics chalk-and-talks - guys who know more about robotics in general than we do...
In a recent (heavily customised) implementation of MSCRM for a call centre I have had the requirement to set the state of a Phonecall Activity to "Completed", depending certain actions by the user on the frontend. MSCRM exposes itself via the "CrmWebservice"- and "MetadataService" web services. All the CRM entities, like Contact, Incident, etc. are extensions of the BusinessEntity base class, and so it is also for Activity , from which Phonecall derives. Ussually when...