Windows Live API Course in Mexico City

I am in Mexico City to participate in a Windows Live API training. I hope to be able to blog interesting things about it. The last time I was working with those services was on the MIIS project at Sena in Colombia; now we may do new things…

What can I say about the city? It is one of the largest in the world. Flying over it for several minutes is enough for you to realize that the size of this metropolis is no small thing. To compare things, from Bogotá airport it takes about 1 minute 40 seconds to fly over the southern part of the city and leave it behind; here, instead, we flew about 4 or 5 minutes flying over buildings, avenues, highways, etc.

When I arrived I rented a car with the usual GPS to be able to navigate the city traffic and not get lost — a futile attempt. I was lost, GPS and all, for more than 3 hours. I was about to stay anywhere and stop looking for the hotel when I finally found it. I asked several times, even at several hotels and even at one from the same chain!!! But with the size of this city, things are at another level: the GPS found 15 results corresponding to Avenida Revolución 538, 3 of them in Mexico City. :-( In short, I arrived at the Holiday Inn Trade Center by miracle. (Which is not the same as the Holiday Inn World Trade Center).

Thanks to the invitation from Sandra Marín of Microsoft Colombia and the support of Microsoft Mexico, who not only invited me but also involved studiocom.com Inc.

Also very important for making this trip possible was the support of Javier Montenegro, Maria Claudia Gnecco, and Rajit Gulati, all from Studiocom.com Inc, who saw an opportunity to develop new business around these new topics and who committed to providing more hours to distribute this knowledge to other Microsoft business partners in Colombia.

Tomorrow I will talk about the course contents; for now, off to find some tacos al pastor.

Juan Pelaez