Ready for PDC! (by yag)
Got to LA and getting ready for PDC. Incredibly excited.
Had an amazing dinner tonight with Erik Meijer - spent the whole time talking about the future of programming and data. Always fun to talk to him for an extended length of time. Watch for a video with him and Paul Vick coming this Friday on Channel9. Paul's also in one with Amanda Silver coming the same day - they are awesome - the latter one is over an hour long with a lot of good stuff in it.
Coming back from dinner, I saw Robert Scoble and a bunch of folks in the hotel bar. He was heading upstairs. On his blog, Scoble says "Have you ever worked so hard you've made yourself physically sick? I'm there." He was looking pretty tired - feel better, man. It's gonna be a crazy week!
I'm hoping to blog at least once a day while I'm down here. I also plan to spend a lot of time talking to folks and reading blogs to hear and see your reactions to this stuff. Pre-con stuff starts up tomorrow, then the fireworks on Tuesday.
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
