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What's in your Visual Studio?
23 December 08 10:11 PM | llangit | 4 Comments   

As I continue my current language-exploring mode, I've noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is becoming a candy store for me.  Is it just me, or do we have an incredible amount of new stuff to play with?  I can't really remember the last time I watched Read More...

Filed under: PDC, Fun, F#, Cloud development, Parallel Computing

MS Surface in the real world ATT Retail Demo, and, at PDC08
25 October 08 06:00 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Interesting to see 'real-world' use of Microsoft Surface.  This video was taken an an ATT phone store California and it shows a store employee explaining how to use the MS-Surface application to help customers. Since I am getting ready to head downtown Read More...

Filed under: PDC, Fun

PDC, TechDays, CodeCamp, BarCamp - Oct / Nov Developer events in SoCal!
15 October 08 06:20 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

We'll we've got a raft of live events coming up in SoCal for developers in late October and early November.  You may be thinking, hmm...which one(s) do I go to? how do I choose?  I'll write a bit about all them here, maybe that will help you Read More...

Filed under: MSDN events, Southern California, PDC, Technical Conference, Fun

Psst...wanna' meet some geekGirls at PDC08?
07 October 08 02:02 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Then join us at WomenBuild . So, what the heck is this? It's a free session for developers who are registered for PDC08. Guess what - it's for both men and women! The pre-con session is centered around building your career as a developer. It will be held Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, PDC, Fun, Helping

Solving Microsoft PDC Hard Hat Challenge #4
03 September 08 04:51 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Do you like code puzzles?  Did you know we were throwing out challenges around PDC?  To read how a 15-year old from Hungary solved this week, just check out the blog link below.  Congrats and geek-cred to Niner 'palotasb (Boldizsar) ' Solving Read More...

Filed under: PDC, Fun

Two weeks in Seattle with SoCalDevGal
02 August 08 07:08 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

I've just returned from a trip to Seattle.  Many of you have asked, "What are you doing there?"  So, here you go.... The overall purpose of the trip was technical readiness.  To that end I (mostly) attended a MS-internal conference Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, ASP.NET development, PDC, Technical Conference, Fun, Helping, BI, geekSpeak, Webcasts

PDC2008 registration is open
30 May 08 01:27 AM | llangit | 3 Comments   

Among the goodness at this year's PDC in LA in this October is a pre-con session that I'm particularly excited about.  If you ask me really nicely, I'll tell you the story of how Asli and I cooked up the idea for this one over drinks on a train one Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, PDC, Technical Conference, Fun