Party? and to think, all I got at PDC05 was a cool Telerik Coffee Cup. We need to party at the next event, guys! Check out their blogs at blogs.telerik.com ps. These guys are lots of fun - if you get the chance to go partying with the team from Telerik don't turn it down. I had the opportunity @ PDC in 2005.[Via Angus Logan's Portals Blog]...
First of all I’d like to wish everyone out there in the metaverse a prosperous 2006. 2005 Time flies, or does it?. It seems that just yesterday we were ringing in 2005 yet I am hard pressed to remember what happened in 2005. If it was just yesterday shouldn’t I remember it well? Anyway… here is a brief list of my personal hits and misses and keywords of 2005 and a brief list of goals for 2006. Hits: Brenda became pregnant – IVF worked on the first try. Bargelt 4.0 is due...
Awesome information on InfoCard technology from Keith Brown. I distinctly remember sitting in one of the keynotes at PDC05 and hearing numerous groans and rumblings in the crowd when InfoCard was announced. Too bad that the mighty Microsoft PR & marketing machine is not doing a better job of describing and selling InfoCard. From Keith’s description it sounds like a very useful technology. [via: InfoCard terminology] An InfoCard is an identity selector. In fact, an “InfoCard”...
Fitz alleviates some of our fears about FrontPage in his posting Ghosting Schmosting. While it is great that Microsoft has addressed most if not all of the problems associated with using FrontPage with SharePoint technologies I still have to question this Microsoft Office love affair with FrontPage. Microsoft has this great development environment that apparently the Office team has never heard of… it is called Visual Studio. I do not want to have to switch back and forth between Visual Studio...
Chris Sells’ new book on WPF is popular… I put myself on the wait list today… I’ll be waiting for my cell phone to ring tomorrow! ;-) UPDATE (09/16/05): Got it. So far so good. I hope to get to some good stuff tonight! ;-) Technorati Tags: PDC05
As you may have read in my Keynote 03 posting – we received DVD 06 that contains Windows Server Codename Longhorn CTP:PDC05. What I neglected to mention is that we also received a double DVD case that contains Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate (two DVDs inside… DVD = 1 Visual Studio 2005 team Suite Release Candidate. DVD 2 = SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition September Community technology Preview. The package also contained a coupon good for a free copy of SQL Server 2005 Standard...
The t-shirt count is up to 15. Yes 15 FREE t-shirts so far at PDC05. (Also two hats, two coffee mugs, a few pens, a luggage tag, a radio, a rubber Frisbee, a balsa-wood airplane, a few buttons) Technorati Tags: PDC05
The opening video was awesome. Microsoft UK put together a gag video about a new feature that lets end users “share the pain” with the developer who caused the pain. It was great… on the client computer a dialog popped up when the program crashed, similar to the real “report and error dialog” but in this enhanced version there is a live audio/video feed of the developer who wrote the code that caused the problem. Then the demonstrator picked one of three “pain”...
The main reason I lugged my heavy Dell 8600 with me was so I could install some of the new cool software that I knew we would receive in a VM… my Dell is beefy enough to have a couple VMs running and still seem snappy. I wanted to install the CTP:PDC05 Windows Vista… but a few things are preventing this: The DVD contains .ISO images of the Windows Vista DVDs. What? That is lame! So I copied the .iso to my c: drive and pointed VMWare to that .iso as a virtual removable device. Nice....
Yesterday we received an really cool little DVD portfolio with over 30GB of software on 6 DVDs. Impressive but also a bit disappointing. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 which I’m pretty sure in available via MSDN – the MSDN download site is currently unavailable or I would verify this fact. Here’s the full list of software in the package: DVD 1: Windows Vista Beta 1Windows Vista Beta 1 x86Windows Vista Beta 1 x64Windows Vista Beta 1 SDK DVD 2: Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 DVD 3: SQL...
http://channel9.msdn.com/sh... – cool a video is worth like 1,000,000,000 words. ;-) Technorati Tags: PDC05
I gotta say this first: The BillG video with Napoleon Dynamite was awesome. It was so good that even after all of the cool announcements I was wishing that there would have been one more video break with our buddy Napoleon. No? FINE! IDIOTS! There was so much cool stuff that I’m sure I am missing lots of things… it was so crowded that I didn’t dare open my laptop. It was so long it was hard to remember everything. Information overload. I will try to be better about taking notes...