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If you are attending PDC 2008 , you may have noticed that on the Sessions page , if you log in, you can chose the sessions you are interested in attending, along with a link so you can add it to your favorite calendar program. The only problem is Read More...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 9:35 AM
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It is a major pet peeve of mine; presenters that use Console Application Projects to demo some non-UI code. That’s so 1990’s. So, what should a presenter use? Well, Test Projects, of course! It is something that I think should Read More...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 8:51 AM
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Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More...
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Monday, October 10, 2005 4:24 PM
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I spent a couple days in Seattle/Redmond thanks to the MVP program and the MVP Global Summit. This was my second Summit, and although I thought it to be impossible, it was even better then the first one. Some of the other MVP groups got to see mostly Read More...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:12 PM
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Don Smith hinted at it and Hernan de Lahitte gave a little more detail about it, but boy was I surprised at the “Patterns and Practices for Designing Service Oriented Applications — An Illustrated Example” PDC pre-con session. The guys Read More...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:32 PM
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Remember, you heard it here first! In about 2 years (when C# 3.0) is/has shipped some C# purists are going to start a petition similar to the whole Classic VB petition . I can see some C# developers complaining that the new C# is too hard for the average Read More...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:36 PM
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While at the party at Universal Studios, I was complaining that I couldn’t meet up with everyone that I wanted to meet, and Chris Sells joked that “real geeks” are not popular. Later in the evening (after lots more beer), the “geek Read More...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:05 PM
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My friends over at CodeBetter.com do not have someone at the PDC, so Brendan asked me to step in and be their guy at the PDC , and I’m glad to help out. I’m not going to cross post, but use the other site to write from a more first person, Read More...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:00 PM
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At the last minute I decided to signup for the P&P SO precon . My friends Don Smith and Peter Provost are 2 of the presenters, and because I know I have a big mouth, and tend to ask questions (a la Code Camp style), I didn’t want to “interfere” Read More...
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Monday, September 12, 2005 2:44 PM
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For those of you that haven’t made it to the conference center yet, it seems as though a lot of the downtown streets are shutdown today (Sunday Sept. 11) for a movie shoot. So the shuttle buses take a lot longer to get to/from your hotel (mine had Read More...
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Sunday, September 11, 2005 1:39 PM
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I made it to LA, which will be my home for most of the week. When not at the conference center, you can probably find me at the Harem Room at the Wilshire. If you are attending the PDC, feel free to look me up. Both my picture and my IM id is can be found Read More...
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 8:54 PM
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During the 2003 PDC, a few of us found a nice little room off the main lobby bar (aka the Point Moorea Bar) at the Wilshire Grand. It was a nice quiet room with it’s own plasma TV and plenty of seating. Great place for a bunch of geeks to take over, Read More...
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Friday, September 02, 2005 12:34 PM
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Over the last couple days I’ve found myself preaching the importance of a couple books, and although I’ve mentioned here before, it is good to remind folks. If you are doing any service-like development ( XML Services , data services, business Read More...
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:23 PM
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Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog . Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon). He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation Read More...
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Friday, August 26, 2005 9:31 AM
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I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow). The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as Read More...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:28 PM
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