Randy Holloway at Microsoft

Yo! There's a meeting at the Hollywood Grill inside of Universal Studios tonight at 8PM! Check out the map of Universal . We'll be meeting at #19 on the map, close to the entrance. Pass it on! Blog and Trackback this post! [ ComputerZen.com ]

UPDATE- Fixed some typos here, forgive the errors in my notes. Presenter- Srik Raghavan The following are notes from the talk: This talk started with the goals for web services in SQL Server. The goals for the implementation are outreach and interoperability...

I have a few questions that should be pretty easy. Anyone who knows the answers, please post a comment. What will be on the PDC DVD? If you attended the conference, will it be free or do you have to order it? If the DVD does NOT include video of the talks...

I've been thrilled to meet so many people at the PDC. It started off a bit slow, but gradually I've bumped into a lot of great people. In the past hour, I've bumped into two. First, I bumped into DonXML earlier. We have talked extensively about the BoF...

In one of Don Box's Indigo talks this week, he stressed that the Indigo team was striving to build a platform for service orientation that was a "good citizen" in dealing with the current platform technologies such as Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting...

I ran across this story on Slashdot, but I'll link straight to the source . This is unfortunate, but I'm sure there is a more complete story to be told here. In the words of one Microsoft person who shall remain nameless, this is a "PR nightmare" as Microsoft...

Don was talking about implementing transaction support in Indigo, and had a funny comment. He said that all of this has to work for VB programmers, because it is their world "and the rest of us are just visiting." It was said in jest, but it reminded...

The keynote on Yukon and WinFS was delivered by Gordon Mangione . Gordon pushed the .NET integration with Yukon and strongly emphasized the flexibility that comes with the .NET platform. One interesting note was Gordon's claim that Reporting Services...

I got here a little bit early, but already in the meeting room were Clemens and Chris . More than anything, I'm hoping to get to put together some faces with some names from all of the sites that I've been reading over the past year and a half or so....

Don's talk was very interesting to me, and it really sets the stage for the upcoming Indigo talks later this week. He is such an entertaining speaker that it is hard not to enjoy what he is talking about. And his talk succeeded, because I am buying into...

Presenter- Rob Relyea, Lead Program Manager Rob is providing an overview of "Xaml" declarative programming model and how this ties into the Longhorn model. Carl covered this earlier today. The presentation framework for Avalon, currently under the MSAvalon...

Due to flight delays, I won't actually make it to LA today. I will have to wait until tomorrow morning to leave, and should be there by midday. It is a bummer, but I'd rather be stuck at home with my family than stuck somewhere else on my way to LA.

Thanks to Robert , I now have a new blog dedicated to Longhorn content. I also hope to have a big announcement related to Longhorn within the next week. More to come this week from the PDC.

According to this InfoWorld article , DB2 will deliver .NET development capabilities and CLR integration for server-side application logic in DB2. And the product will also ship prior to Yukon.

Thurrott is blogging, er, reporting from the PDC this week . I'll be interested to see if has anything to add over what is reported in the weblog world.

I'm leaving on Sunday morning to make the trip out LA. For those that I haven't met in person yet, here's a picture. Feel free to come up and say hello- and I'll try to do the same.

I'm sure many people are thinking "The CLR has been here for a while hasn't it?". Well, for the database world the CLR is a new concept, and Yukon's support for the CLR will provide database developers and database administrators with new capabilities...

There is an article recently published on Scoble's impact on corporate blogging . It has an "insider" feel to it, but the premise of the article is quite valid. And having met Scoble recently, he is definitely the genuine article. Let's hope that his...

I've had trouble posting to this .Text site with NewsGator as of about two weeks ago, and filed a bug report here . Prior to that, it always worked. I'm not aware of anything having changed, has anyone else experienced this problem?

I'm going to start posting Yukon content on a weekly basis, if not more often, starting at the PDC. Now for the questions. Should I segregate that content into a separate weblog, or would you like to see it here? If I create a new blog for that content...

I get e-mails requesting my advice on writing for periodicals from time to time. I'm sure other people get many more requests than I do. But the best advice I can giving on writing and taking input on your writing can be summarized in previous posts from...

Dare recently wrote up some of his thoughts on SOA . I thought Clemens' post on this a while back was pretty thoughtful as well. He also responded to reader comments here . Microsoft is talking a lot about SOA as well recently, and a fairly recent MSDN...

This is old to many of you I'm sure, but this article is referenced in Bill Joy's recent Fortune magazine interview . For those new to it, enjoy.

Another insightful article from Techweb . If you don't have time to read it I'll sum it up for you- if you want to buy Microsoft's upcoming offerings that will further integrate Office with enterprise software, it will probably cost you money . Gee, I...

Jeff , thanks for the PDC shirt. See you there.