Well, live from the Novotel on Darling Harbour anyway.

Just completed day one at the APAC SharePoint Conference along with Pete, and I have to say that it was a very enjoyable day.

Our day started before sunrise so we could catch the red-eye to Sydney. In fact, Pete had to travel 45 minutes from Corowa to my place first, so he's no doubt struggling by now! The flight was uneventful, and the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel was quite entertaining thanks to a cab driver from Ghana playing Bob Marley and singing along.

The first session (after the opening keynote) was about programmatically accessing SharePoint objects using the object model and web services. For me, this was the highlight of the day. The presenters really knew their stuff and gave clear examples with real-world code samples. The only down side for me was the use of the word "who's" in a comment in one of their code samples where they clearly meant to use "whose". :)

Among the other sessions we attended was an informative session on the Business Data Catalog by Mike Fitzmaurice from Microsoft. This was very valuable in explaining some of the BDC's terminology and mechanics.

Tonight we have the (free!!?!) conference dinner, and then a whole day's worth of sessions again tomorrow before we fly home.

Oh - did I mention that CGI were giving away free lattes in the sponsor's area? Fantastic!