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Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:25 PM

Evolving the PDC09 Event Site

Did you know that the PDC is assembled and run by the same group that does MIX? At this year’s MIX09 in Las Vegas , we hired a company to facilitate seven on-site focus groups, each comprised of around 10 attendees. While the questions covered a broad
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Friday, June 19, 2009 4:16 PM

PDC09

Are you ready for our 14th Professional Developers Conference!? We’re back at the Los Angeles Convention Center this November, and as always, it’s going to be fun event! We have one day of workshops (formerly referred to as pre-cons ) on Monday, November
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Monday, November 03, 2008 12:10 PM

PDC2008 Keynote and Session Video Links

I've posted a PDC2008 Sessions page that contains a simple list of all keynotes and sessions by title with links to each corresponding page on Channel 9. I've also made it easy to download the PowerPoint presentations and to grab any sample code the speaker
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Monday, November 03, 2008 11:06 AM

PDC2008 Sessions

While you can browse sessions by tag on the Channel 9 PDC2008 page , here's a simple list of all keynotes and sessions by code and title. Clicking the keynote or session title will take you directly to the corresponding page on Channel 9 where you can
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:14 AM

PDC2008 Session and Keynote Recordings Are Now Published

Recordings of the PDC2008 sessions and keynotes are now available online for free , for anyone (no login required). Each session has its own page that includes a Silverlight viewer to watch streaming video and a Download link for iPod (MP4), WMV, WMV
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:48 PM

PDC2008 Downloadable Master Session List

Only three more days before PDC2008 kicks off in Los Angeles. It's hard to believe that the big event is almost here! If you won't be able to join us at the conference, be sure to bookmark www.microsoftpdc.com and watch the first two keynotes streamed
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:59 PM

Send Me Your PDC Video

In a little over a week, we'll be holding an all-hands meeting for Microsoft employees who are attending PDC2008. It'll be a huge meeting with many hundreds of people, including the core team, virtual team, content team, speakers, staff, and anyone else
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:24 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #7

The first full week of PDC2008 dry-runs is complete! If you're not familiar with our dry-run process, take a look at PDC2008: A Day in the Life #6 . The on-campus dry-runs continue through this Thursday. After that, we have a little over a week to make
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Monday, October 06, 2008 9:38 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #6

Today was our first day of PDC2008 dry-runs on campus. To present a session at the conference, all speakers are required to rehearse their session in front of the content team and a handful of their peers. This is in addition to the proposals and outlines
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:42 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #5

I have an internal PDC2008 gadget running in my Windows Sidebar, and it reports that there are only 25 days remaining before the big event. In "event time," that seems like tomorrow! I'll probably go to sleep tonight and wake up in the Los Angeles Convention
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:39 AM

More Bits, Windows 7 Sessions, and Keynote Speakers for PDC2008

As promised , we published 17 additional Windows 7 sessions this morning. If you were wondering how much you'd hear about Windows 7 at this year's Professional Developers Conference , you now have the answer: a lot . A few of the session descriptions
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Monday, September 22, 2008 9:20 PM

PDC2008 Hard Drives, Services, Windows 7, and More

It's going to be an awesome PDC2008 , baby! Before you read the rest of my post, watch this short 4 1/2 minute video that we published this afternoon on Channel 9 for some helpful context. Please forgive my super-reflective forehead...I still remember
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 4:42 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #4

So soon after A Day in the Life #3 , you ask? Indeed! There are a few questions that I get over and over from people both internal and external to Microsoft, and I thought I’d address them in a blog post. Question #1: “I’m a third-party speaker (or ‘I
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:20 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #3

Before I forget, be sure to check out the latest videos on Channel 9 in our weekly Countdown to PDC2008 series (or just look for anything tagged PDC08 ). The 10-minute-or-so shows are fun to make, and Jennifer and I would love your feedback, questions,
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:43 PM

New Show: Countdown to PDC2008

Jennifer Ritzinger and I have started a new show called Countdown to PDC2008 , and we just published our first episode on Channel 9. We’ve been recording an internal video series (of the same name) for about ten episodes now, and some fellow employees
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