So everything must end....PDC 2005 reached it's end. Currently I'm on a plane over Canada, flying back to Home. Thanks for Lufthansa for their FlyNet technology, which made this blog entry possible (no, it's not free :-)). Shame on Dell because my Inspiron can work about 3-4 hours from battery :-)
This conference was a well organized event without no problems. There was a power outage but that's not the fault of the event staff :-) It was far better then the PDC in 2003. One day as Me and my colleague worked from one session to another we talked about the conferences in the past and the evolution of the facilities what you got on each conference. First You've the ability to rent wireless cards and Ipaq devices to get connected on the conference, and there was a few wireless hotspots. After a few years the possibilities were much better, since you already had your wireless device with you, but there were stiil only hotspots, but much better coverage. In 2005 at PDC you had all the devices in all form factors with wireless inside and we had full coverage thruout the convention center.
Also finally I met some friends whose I'd only online contact before. I'll not go thru all of them, but it was a pleasure for me to meet with Eric J. Smith the author of CodeSmith since we'd talked a lot before. Eric, thanks for the photo :-)
Also I met my colleagues from Redmond Campus and it was good to put a face to the names from the distribution lists.
I had a job interview at the PDC, well....we'll see what will happen :-) If everything goes right maybe I'll be a speaker at the next PDC :-))) (Just joking but chances always around, you just've to catch them).
Thanks for everything (specially to my Manager who made it possible for me. Just one more favor, please sign my expense sheet :-))
See you all of you at the next PDC.
What about the future of this blog? Which was opened at the PDC....All I can tell that I'll continue blogging about technologies and problems I'm faced with what I'm working with. You can expect content about: Model Driven Development, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Framework and everyhing about .Net.