First of all, thank you very much to all attendees that followed the session we animated Mitch and myself at the BDC in Aix en Provence (France). Behind the scenes of a session are sometimes surprising. So here is a little anecdote.
One of my demonstration was to illustrate an funny plugin into Nova Studio 2010. Here it is the architecture of my demonstration:
The main objective was to use 3 motorized IP webcam inside a WPF Application and a Nova Studio Plugin. I used Windows Communication Foundation announcement service to detect IP cameras. Then, each client application was notified from the arrival of cameras on the network through WCF announcement.
But 30 minuts before the session during my last demonstration checks, 2 of 3 IP cameras have decided to no longer work (processor off), a network cable has blown and the network card of my laptop acting as a server has also decided to stop working. I rebuild my demo with only 1 IP camera and with clients and services on my laptop. At the point where I was, I was waiting for a meteorite!
Finally the demonstration worked well with the material that I had. The day was very interesting but rough.