Why is it that you turn on a hot water tap in your hotel room and you get instant hot water, but at home you have to wait for the hot water to come through ? - Mike

The MEDC Podcast team is at it again... We have a video podcast feed up and running on YouTube ( subscribe to the feed here ) and also exposed on the MEDC 2007 Blog page - today was the pre-conference tutorials and keynote rehearsals (we have some videos...

The Pelican case with my keynote hardware finally arrived (not on the same flight as me though) - It's Sunday afternoon, the Alaska Cargo office in Las Vegas closes at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon - we managed to collect the bag at 2:45pm! <whew!>...

Since we're running the ever popular MEDC Sumo Robotics competition this year on CE 6.0 based hardware and using Microsoft Robotics Studio to build the application to run on top of the operating system you might be wondering what's needed for you to write...

It's Sunday morning, April 29th and I'm heading for Las Vegas for MEDC 2007 - the journey hasn't gone quite as smoothly as I would have hoped... My flight *was* at 6:00am... (not that it *was* at 6:00am), so I left home at 4am, arrived in plenty of...

MEDC 2007 kicks off in Las Vegas this coming week with the keynote on Tuesday morning at 8:30am - we have several keynote demos lined up, one of which uses a TON of hardware (which I need to hand carry to Las Vegas at 4am Sunday morning!). For last years...

Some of the content owners for MEDC 2007 have put together a short video showing some of the ways "NOT" to present at a conference. Have you seen any presentations like the ones in the video ? - Mike

MEDC 2007 is just over a week away (it really doesn't seem like a year ago that we were getting ready for MEDC 2006 - perhaps time really does fly when you are having fun!). On the run up to MEDC we have weekly keynote rehearsal meetings starting about...

Wanted to give you an update on the Sumo Competition at MEDC 2007 - The hardware 'porting lab' will start at 8:00pm on the preconference day. If you are at the conference center before 8pm then you can still take part in the competition - sound ok ? ...

Fabien Decret is a developer working at ADENEO in France, Fabien spends his time writing .NET Compact Framework code for Windows CE and Windows Mobile - it looks like the blog will be focused on delivering code samples and helpful hints and tips. Here...

This years MEDC Sumo Robotics competition is going to be based around Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 - the hardware is going to be based on the iRobot Create chasis and uses an ICOP eBox 2300 running Windows Embedded CE 6.0 as the embedded component of...

Go check out the .NET Micro Framework blog - it looks like Rob Miles and Donald Thompson have completed the book on .NET Micro Framework development - there's no mention of when the book will be available in the stores. The .NET Micro Framework is...

If you are building Point of Service applications (self-service check out terminals, airport check-in terminals, point of sale devices etc...) then you will be interested in the updates provided by WEPOS version 1.1 (and the POS for .NET 1.11) - here...

MEDC is an event, right ? And the MSDN C# Documentation clearly states that Delegates are the basis for Events . Makes sense, right ? - Mike

The .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 has been released for mobile devices as a download on MSDN - The March 2007 Windows CE update also includes the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 bits for the Platform Builder Catalog. Here's a link to the downloads. Windows...

Doug Gaff , a developer working over at Wind River has written a blog post asking whether the Embedded industry is dead (Doug has also blogged about Windows CE shared source ). I agree with Doug's comments about the changes in the embedded space, devices...

Hey, just want to get a feel for how many people might be taking part in the Sumo Robotics competition at this years MEDC 2007 event. Drop a comment and let me know if you are taking part. Thanks, - Mike

Take a look at this blog post from Marc Jacobs - what do you think, do you agree ? - Mike

If you are taking part in the Imagine Cup Embedded Competition then you are probably coding away building your embedded operating system, drivers and applications - You may have some questions that you need to get answered to assist with your project...

More information here - http://www.medc2007.com and Information on Robotics Studio and The Sumo Competition . oh, and don't forget the blogger discount for MEDC 2007 (you can get the discount even if you don't have a blog!). - Mike

Alden Linn from the .NET Micro Framework team has a great blog post that shows how to get started with the Freescale i.MXS reference platform . - Mike

If you are heading to MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas and are wanting to take part in this years Sumo Robotics competition here's a taste of what you will be working with - check out the Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 CTP with Sumo Robotics Simulator. Video: Microsoft...

I've just installed Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 CTP and the Sumo Robotics Simulator Package - the readme.htm file that launches at the end of installation contains incorrect instructions. Do NOT build the SumoCompetition.sln project - if you do then...

CE 6.0 introduced a number of new and interesting technologies, this includes the Vista Network Projector (I will record a demo of this working shortly), CellCore support, and more. CellCore gives you the ability to send SMS Messages programmatically...

MEDC 2007 Las Vegas is getting close, just a few short weeks away! - one of the highlights of the MEDC event is the evening Sumo Robotics competition, this year we're introducing a new format for the competition - the robots will be running Windows Embedded...