MVP Summit 2010, Shiny - Part 2
[The series index can be found here.]
As with any conference event, you can expect to fill your bag with trinkets to bring home—the stuff you’d find interesting but would never pay for yourself. Summit had some of that, but that Visual Studio jacket? I would’ve happily paid for it! However, this isn’t about those things. It’s about two very special shiny trophies I got to bring home.
Towards the end of last year, I was awarded the VSTS Rangers Champion award—but at Summit, I finally received my "trophy": a Visual Studio 2008 Team System box, personally signed with a message from Jeff Beehler!
The second special item was a big surprise: internally, there’s an award among Team System MVPs for the "best MVP" (think of being called the Tom Cruise of Top Gun), and Ed Blankenship deservedly won it! But not to be outdone, I won the MVP in Residence award for spending a ridiculous amount of time away from home doing stuff for Microsoft. The trophy for this was a photo frame with a certificate signed by Brian Harry!
