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	Now Announcing Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2005 It looks like I know where I’ll be Sept. 10 thru 17, 2005, in Los Angeles, CA at the next Microsoft PDC (hat tip to Jeff Julian).  PDCs are not like regular technical conferences, they only come along when Microsoft has a new technology to debut.  PDC 2000 was the unveiling of .Net, PDC 2001 was the WebServices (aka MyServices) conference, and PDCD 2003 was the first public release of Longhorn.  I have no idea what is on tap for 2005, but I definitely don’t want to miss it. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:42 PM by donxml Filed under: .Net, Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML, PDC, SQL Server Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments Dave said: Sweet! Now I gotta bill like crazy fron now until then. That's an expensive trip to fund on one's own. December 7, 2004 8:51 PM Chris said: What do you suppose will be the Spotlighted Technology? While Longhorn is drifting further away, we may see Indigo and Avalon late next year. December 8, 2004 10:45 AM Don Demsak said: PDCs are all about new things, so although there may be Indigo and Avalon sessions, there should be something very new (and very cool) released for the first time to the public. What that is, I have no idea (and even if I did I couldn't talk about). December 8, 2004 12:29 PM

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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.