hey there! The conference site is live, so poke around the preliminary sessions they have out there. These sessions caught my eye...
Windows 7: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency and Battery Life A single application can reduce mobile battery life by up to 30%. Windows 7 provides advances for building energy-efficient applications. In this session we will discuss how to leverage new Windows infrastructure to reduce application power consumption and efficiently schedule background tasks and services. Windows 7: Touch Computing In Windows 7, innovative touch and gesture support will enable more direct and natural interaction in your applications. This session will highlight the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explain how you can leverage them in your applications. A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer This session will go beyond the "Hello World" development experience and explore common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management and maintenance of individual services. Architecting Services for the Cloud From design to implementation, building a scalable, available web service is different from building other kinds of applications. This session will discuss the impact that designing for the cloud has on all stages of the service lifecycle, and how Microsoft's cloud platform works for you to meet the scaling and availability goals of your service. Developing with .Net and ASP.NET for Server Core In the next release of Windows Server, the Server Core installation option will support a subset of .Net and ASP.NET allowing your managed applications and web servers to take advantage of the reduced management and maintenance that Server Core provides. In this session you will learn what about writing new code for and how to ensure existing code works within the subset of .Net and ASP.NET that are in Server Core. In addition, this session will cover how to use the existing toolset a command line environment to troubleshoot and debug on Server Core.
Windows 7: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency and Battery Life A single application can reduce mobile battery life by up to 30%. Windows 7 provides advances for building energy-efficient applications. In this session we will discuss how to leverage new Windows infrastructure to reduce application power consumption and efficiently schedule background tasks and services.
Windows 7: Touch Computing In Windows 7, innovative touch and gesture support will enable more direct and natural interaction in your applications. This session will highlight the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explain how you can leverage them in your applications.
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer This session will go beyond the "Hello World" development experience and explore common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management and maintenance of individual services.
Architecting Services for the Cloud From design to implementation, building a scalable, available web service is different from building other kinds of applications. This session will discuss the impact that designing for the cloud has on all stages of the service lifecycle, and how Microsoft's cloud platform works for you to meet the scaling and availability goals of your service.
Developing with .Net and ASP.NET for Server Core In the next release of Windows Server, the Server Core installation option will support a subset of .Net and ASP.NET allowing your managed applications and web servers to take advantage of the reduced management and maintenance that Server Core provides. In this session you will learn what about writing new code for and how to ensure existing code works within the subset of .Net and ASP.NET that are in Server Core. In addition, this session will cover how to use the existing toolset a command line environment to troubleshoot and debug on Server Core.
Mike Swanson, owns the content piece, and has a new Channel9 video on the algorithm he is using to manage the 160+ sessions and enhance attendee satisfaction. Nice stuff.