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Rebecca Dias - Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Getting excited about techEd - lots of tidbits

Despite the fact that it is totally gorgeous in Seattle right now and I have to work because Tech Ed is nearing, I am excited!

I'm Back on my Feet

Why?  Cause despite the enormous workload, if feels as though things are coming together and... I am able to do physical exercise - 9 weeks post-op from knee surgery.  I am recovering nicely after a very rough 2 months.  I am usually an extremely active person.  Being out of commission was extremely challenging.  I have made my Physical Therapist shake her head disapprovingly at me for already riding my new/used Cannondale from coffee shop to coffee shop in Seattle.  I am very cautious though.  My ligament is actually at it's weakest point right now.

BTW, if you are in the market for a Windows laptop, This new Sony Vaio PCG-TR3AP is by far the best laptop I have ever had.   It comes perfectly loaded and the black screen makes it possible to sit outside and do work.  I love the fact that I live in a wireless broadband world!  This computer is totally loaded with video capturing built right in.  It makes SMSing dreamy.  If Richard ever gets the right version of MSN Messenger installed, we can laugh at each other from Bldg 42 to 119.

Thank you to all of the connected systems speakers for making your deadlines!

All of the first round decks are in.  The feedback process has been great during the many dry runs for internals and con-calls with externals.

Clemens, the over-achiever

Clemens wrote an excellent app that shows very awesome coding practices.  I don't think we will have an opportunity to document it in time for Tech Ed, but we will see.  How hungry are you for a real world demo application that really shows you how to code all of the concepts that will be discussed on the Connected Systems track?  What format would an educational material like this come in?  A PAG block?  A ServerSide.NET discussion forum?  A series of MSDN whitepapers?  A zip file you can simply download and hack around with?

Some tips on how to build a great presentation

I noticed that I have had some pretty consistent feedback with every speaker on the track.  Figured I would share this with everyone.

  • Tell the audience what you plan to tell them
  • Keep the audience awake while you pack their brain full of the material you promised - laughter helps keep people engaged
  • At the end, summarize what you have learned
  • Take a step back from your presentation, ask yourself the question, “If I was going to this session, what would I be expecting to leave with?“  Now ask yourself the question, did the presentation satisfy that need?
  • When you are reviewing your slides, think, what is the audience going to call B.S. on me for?  Make sure you are making strong arguments if you are making a claim that is hard to believe.  Otherwise, change your tone.
  • Then, once the flow of the presentation is solid, go back and remove all unnecessary wording, in fact cut all content from each slide, put it into the notes, and re-write the slide with only the highlighted words.  Remember in college when you highlighted the important key words.  Make your points, sweet, short, and concrete.  You want your audience listening to you, not reading
  • Don't use more than 6 bullets on a slide.
  • And finally, make friends with someone who is color blind, and give them your presentation.

Whidbey .asmx?

How many of you out there would like to see a session at Tech Ed on Whidbey's new .asmx feature set?

Published Monday, May 10, 2004 12:11 AM by rdias

Comments

 

Sal DiStefano said:

I would like the material in a Zip file to download so I could jump right in. White papers are good but give the code up front so those of us who like to work ahead on our own can do so.

Anything Whidbey and ASMX related would be great!
May 10, 2004 7:17 AM
 

Malek Kemmou said:

Having an idea about the extent of this demo (can one call such a huge work a demo?), I would think a PAG block style would be the best way to make it usable (there is a lot of architecture concepts, design considerations and practices, as well as code implementations). A discussion forum will inevitably come out of it, once the code and documentation comes out. The zip file by itself would help most to start looking at the content, but I don't think it will be sufficient for anyone (or maybe there will be a couple of people out there capable of reading through 5 Meg of C# code without architecture documentation, not me). MSDN articles can come later to discuss particular issues and how they are dealt with.
May 10, 2004 3:32 PM
 

The Skelly Blog said:

May 12, 2004 2:49 PM
 

Ian said:

Widbey / ASMX:

++1
May 14, 2004 9:13 PM
 

Anatoly Lubarsky said:

I would like Clemens's app be available to download (in a zip/msi whatever format) with source code available. May be for MSDN subscribers ?
May 15, 2004 6:36 PM
 

Steve Eichert said:

Presentation Tips
May 15, 2004 8:11 PM
 

Steve said:

+1 for a full download with source code for Clemens' app. It would also be great if a series of articles/whitepapers were released describing how and why things were done the way they were. Discussions around the most difficult areas and an overview of alternate approaches that were considered would also be extremely valuable.
May 15, 2004 8:11 PM
 

Mahesh said:

Clemens' app, with source for download along with whitepapers. More useful would be a clear seperation of the reuseable blocks within the app and a discussion of how one could extract these pieces and integrate them within our applications.
May 16, 2004 2:50 AM
 

Arvindra Sehmi said:

For the Clemens SOA app a possible means of making it digestible would be to supplement it with webcasts describing the requirements, scenarios and design. Tying this to the 4 (+1) SOA tenets would be desirable. Specifially how the data contract design-first idea is applied and how tough issues like versioning, scaling, and so on are handled is essential to understanding the app. There are a number of message exchange patterns used that would be good to describe too.

There are key elements of the design that address deployment and operations which are must be understood to make sense of why certain things were done as they were.

Linking all of this material to the Clemens/Swartz talks of last year would make for a really neat package of ideas and realization.

IMHO the best place for this kind of material in the short-mid term is Patterns & Practices where it can be maintained, a community developed and some decent documentation built around it to support adoption.

Get it in into Whidbey as a sample app; think strategically about the design patterns and how they can work/be modelled in Whitehorse, DSI, and other new tooling in VS.NET.

I think our (i.e MSFT's) customers, especially in the enterprise, are crying out for a serious end-to-end appliction example. If this is consistent with the "Road to Longhorn/Indigo" then that's even better.

On a cautionary level, we'd have to consensually validate the design ideas and benchmark/test the app thoroughly before making it available through "formal" channels (e.g. PAG). Alternatively, we could leave it up to the "community" to do this if we make it available though "informal" channels (e.g. GotDotNet). Perhaps a combination of the two approaches?

So, it was not clear to me, will the app be demo'ed at Tech-Ed US or not?

Thanks.
May 16, 2004 8:33 AM
 

Scott Colestock said:

Count me in as wanting as much coverage of Clemens' app while at TechEd US as possible. I was assuming it WOULD be covered, based on past entries in Clemens' blog. If it isn't, I'll feel more than mildly cheated <sniff>...
May 16, 2004 3:04 PM
 

edd said:

I would love to see the full-blown app with downloadable code in zip format. I would also love to see the thinking behind the coding and why a certain way of doing is taken rather than other ways.
May 16, 2004 10:25 PM
 

Bryant Likes said:

I would also really like to see Clemen's app in some downloadable format (or on CD). It would be really nice if you could get him to do a few webcasts that give an overview what the code consists of and what advantages the code gives.
May 17, 2004 1:20 PM
 

Girish Bharadwaj said:

May 21, 2004 9:23 AM
 

Mark Blomsma said:

I'd love to see Clemens demo-app. After seeing his presentations on Layers and Tiers and his promise that his demo will strictly cohere to these ideas I just need to see it work :-)
May 24, 2004 3:01 AM
 

Benjy said:

I think Aravindra said it really well. Have the Clemens app critiqued by some of the experts in MS and then passed on to us as something from PAG.

If any elements are reusable and can be made into app blocks , thats even better.

But IMHO webcasts on the design approaches and documents on static and dynamic models would be the real cream on the cake. Understanding how the stuff was built will probably live longer in our minds than the code itself.

End to end apps are a great idea. Im attending TechEd Europe and it i'm definitely going to attend this session.

Cheers
Benjy
May 24, 2004 10:01 AM
 

Rebecca Dias said:

Keep the feedback coming. We are listening.
June 1, 2004 5:47 PM
 

Mike Kulvicki said:

From my perspective, the answer is "both formal and informal". It would be great to get an early look at the code, followed up by a series of design patterns, application blocks, performance analysis, etc.

I'm in Microsoft Consulting Services as a strategy consultant, and I am constantly preaching to my customer about SOA and the four tenets, but I don't have anything to back that up yet.

Right now, I can say "this is what you need to do, and why", but I can't show them how to do that in any concrete manner.

I could take the informal release of the code and integrate that into my advice to the customer, as well as provide links to the more complete information as it becomes available. My customer would see tremendous value in that approach, both immediate, and long-term.

Mike
June 8, 2004 6:58 PM
 

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