Home at last
Today (5/10) is the last day of the 18th week of 2008. Of those 18 weeks I've spent 10 of them on the road and 4 of the last 5 weeks were on the road. I'm tired of traveling and glad to be home for a while (I hope).
The only travel I have planned for sure is to be in Orlando for the two weeks of Tech-Ed 2008 where I'll be working the labs for Microsoft. So if you are attending then stop by the Unified Communications area and look me up.
The Florida area .Net development community will be conducting 'tweener' on the Saturday and Sunday between the two halves of Tech-Ed. I'll be there for that and possibly teaching a Speech Server class on Sunday. I'll blog more on this once the details are worked out. This is a free event so you should plan on attending.
One of the bad things about traveling so much is that my to-do list has really grown. This is just a short version of things I need to accomplish:
- Blog about why you shouldn't nest SpeechSequenceActivities
- Blog about why TurnStarting is not your friend.
- Work on a blog series about the different components of Speech Server. I want to take each Activity (or group of activities) and really cover them in depth. In addition to the writing that will require a lot of code experimenting and will be time consuming.
- Work on the Speech Server Showcase - I've seen some interest in this but no one has actually sent me their write-ups about their applications.
- Configure my Vonage line through my Dialogic Media Gateway.
- Write a Speech Server app to answer the phone at GotSpeech Central. I know I could just purchase an answering machine but that wouldn't be any fun.
There is probably a dozen other things that need doing but this is just the things that are highest on my list.
Thanks: Being on the road has limited the time I've been able to spend in the forums on GotSpeech. It is really awesome (but humbling) to see how well things carry on without me. I checked the site stats this morning as shown below and I was excited to see how active things have been. We have some very good speech server developers on this site and they are willing to share their experiences with others. That is what grows a community like GotSpeech as well as help grow Speech Server acceptance in the developer community. If people don't get tehir questions answered then they won't come back. I'm especially proud of the new threads/posts counts. The official Microsoft forum for Speech Server doesn't get anywhere near this much activity.
2,848 users have contributed to 3,178 threads and 3,611 posts.
In the past 24 hours, we have 4 new thread(s), 34 new post(s), and 6 new user(s).