I am lucky to get to speak at many conferences in many different countries each year. A lot of people ask what it is like to be an international confrence speaker. For the most part, mind airport security and flight delays, it is the most fun you can have and still be working. You get to hang out with your peers all over the world and geek out. Then of course there is the partying…

Sometimes your friends and colleagues want to keep partying well after the bar is closed. At the last BASTA confrence in Germany last month, I retired around 2am well after the we shut down the bar. My colleagues lead by fellow Telerik employee Peter Brunner and thinktecture’s  Christian Weyer aka the tall German, decided to keep drinking and raided their minibars. When they exhausted their minibars, they came to my room.

Posing as housekeeping they come to my room in the middle of the night to wake me up. They even turn around my do not disturb sign to “come on in.” I knew it was not housekeeping, but I did not expect a party at my door. After I answer the door in my underwear, I give them a tour of my “roomlet” as well as drink a beer before kicking them out. Christian Weyer and I also play with my beer stein Oktoberfest hat that I won at Oktoberfest-it is not meant to fit on a normal human’s head, but it does fit Christian’s.

Daniel Walzenbach caught this all on film.