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June 2008 - Posts

PDC Lounge Lizards

PDC2008 is building lots of opportunities to network during the event, but the doors to the LA Convention Center do close nightly. Where will you debrief from the news of Windows 7, Live Mesh, cloud services, Silverlight, and more? Popular places to soak Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 11:37 PM by Denise Begley | 1 Comments
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PDC Buzz on Blogsphere

Mike Swanson's recent post is drawing suggestions for topics to be covered at PDC include: Mesh, language features (C#, VB), Parallel Multi Core Programming, future of WPF, Cardspace and Identity Story, and WiX. Ajoy Krishnamoorthy blogs about Brian Randell’s Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 11:30 PM by Denise Begley | 1 Comments
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Vetting topics for PDC2008

Mike Swanson shares insights to the challenges and opportunities of selecting the sessions that detail the future of Microsoft's platform in his blog post " PDC2008: A Day in the Life #2 ." Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 5:16 PM by Denise Begley | 1 Comments
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Bill Gates on what's top of mind for developers

What's top of mind for Bill that Developers who target our platform should pay attention to now and in the next decade? Bill shares his thoughts during his last Channel 9 interview. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 5:12 PM by Denise Begley | 1 Comments
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PDC Buzz on the Blogsphere

PDC is about the future and is the event to attend. Just read what Jon Box says, "In my opinion, if I was going to choose one technical event to attend in any year, my first choice will always be the PDC. That's where I became aware of DCOM and ASP, before Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:07 PM by Denise Begley | 3 Comments
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Old Hollywood Glamour for Movie Fans at the Biltmore

After a day filled of PDC networking , open-spacing and taking in the future of Microsoft’s platform, see what LA has to offer. Explore one of the PDC conference hotels, the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel , which hosted eight Academy Award Ceremonies Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 7:50 PM by Denise Begley | 0 Comments
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Show Off Your Coolest Stuff at PDC

Code it, hack it, sculpt it? If it is cool, and involves technology, we want to see it! Show Off has returned to PDC. We want you to inspire others with your unique software, tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything else we can’t think of. All you Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:05 PM by Denise Begley | 0 Comments
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Open Space at PDC2008: The "Conference within a Conference"

Take a look at Jason Olson's blog and you'll see that the PDC team is serious about implementing this unsession format at PDC. Our goal is simple: enable attendees with common interests to have some great conversations in an efficient setting. All you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:27 PM by Denise Begley | 1 Comments
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19 Industry Experts to deliver 10 Pre-Con Sessions

Brian Randall , Charles Petzold , Daniel Pravat , David Callahan, Doug Boling , Grigori Melnik , Jeff Prosise , Jim Wilson , Joe Duffy , Joe Hellerstein, Jose Blakeley, Juval Lowy , Mario Hewardt , Mark Friedman, Mary Poppendieck , Michael Pizzo, Ron Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:27 PM by Denise Begley | 0 Comments
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Serious Play for Women at PDC

What could be better than a Sunday of creative play before PDC gets started? LEGO and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a Serious Play opportunity for women in technology. Workshop attendees are encouraged to share, discuss and network while playing with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:01 PM by Denise Begley | 0 Comments
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