I was invited by Microsoft to attend this event last November 29, 2017. The venue was Makati Shangri-La Hotel so I thought “Why not? The food will be great.” Did I know that this might be the single most blasphemous event I’d ever attend? No, and I was very surprised.
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It is quite nice that Microsoft is finally embracing open source technologies. And I was really surprised that they will take it to this level (organizing grand events worldwide for open source techs). The statement is clear as the sunshine: “Microsoft ❤ Opensource”; and I don’t really know what more can the opensource purists say to deny this. Anyway, I am not quite fond with opensource stuff. True that opensource tech cannot be avoided and sometimes the business requirements dictates that I use opensource stuff, but I will still use Microsoft technologies as first choice if I ever had the choice to do so. I cannot deny that right now I am wondering that the IT Pros who invested their time and effort on Microsoft technologies think of what’s happening. But I am quite sure that the feedback of the opensource community is very positive. I always see opensource people in our tech group chatting about how good Visual Studio Code is.
The Lounge
After the event, I met with
a friend since highschool she’s a Communications Executive at Makati Shangri-La Hotel. She showed me around.
The Gingerbread house is made with real ginger bread. The iconic sampaguita inspired chandelier is been there ever since the hotel has been established. Of course, the hotel experience is not complete if you didn’t climbed up and down the grand staircases. The food is excellent! My friend told me that the stereotype of hotel in the Philippines (You have to stay or you have to have a reservation or be attending an event in order to enter a hotel) is not necessarily true. A Hotel is like a big old fancy mall where you can enter, browse stuff for sale, eat,
Umorder ng kape, damhin ang ambiance, tumambay, at maki wifi gaya ng ginagawa ko ngayon. I actually tried it out and the ambiance is very conductive to creative activity. The last picture is what I ordered, an exotic tiramisu and a cappuccino, Here’s a close up:
I was doing a quick research on the history of Microsoft technical communities here in the Philippines, and I found out that they used to have DevDays here @ Makati Shangri-La. I guess excellent companies chose excellent event venues 🙂 I am very thankful to Aencille Santos for showing me around and breaking the stereotype of Hotels here in Philippines.
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