First day of MASTERs in the bag, two more to go!

Well, we just finished our first day of Microchip's annual MASTERs Conference, and it went very well as far as I could tell. I attended a touchscreen LCD GUI class in the morning, worked at the Development Tools store in the afternoon, and acted as a compiler "expert" at the Ask The Experts booth in the evening. I even participate in the entertainment activities at night. It was a long day, but I met a bunch of interesting people and learned a little about what some of the applications engineering groups are doing.

I'm a little nervous about tomorrow morning because it will be my first time presenting a class at MASTERs. Even though I'm only responsible for about 40 minutes of a 4-hour MPLAB C18 class, I still don't want to put everybody to sleep! It's been about a month since we had our dry runs and submitted our slides to the conference organizers, so I need to take some time tonight to review my slides and interactive demo.

If anybody reading this is currently in Phoenix for MASTERs, be sure to stop by the Ask The Experts booth Thursday or Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. You'll be able to talk to members from our MPLAB IDE software team, our compiler team, our hardware/firmware team, and our tool test team. We've already received a good number of suggestions and constructive criticism on our tools, but we'd definitely like to get more. In addition to meeting directly with the Development Systems team, you'll also get some face time with applications developers representing all of Microchip's major product lines including microcontrollers. analog and interface products, and serial EEPROMs. Don't miss this opportunity to get direct contacts on the teams that interest you!

That's all for now. I need to review my class material...