Mark Michaelis: My PDC ThoughtsComments, opinions and notes about the Professional Developers ConferencePDC Technology Impressions - the Ugly, the Bad, and the Good- October 31, 2003 The Ugly Some development technologies require Longhorn. XAML is only available on Longhorn. Automated UI testing technology is only available on Longhorn. This is development technology... It is hard enough forcing a customer to upgrade their OS. However, with the hardware requirements presented with Longhorn (1G RAM, 64Mb Video, dual-processor if possible) I would be asking my customer to upgrade all their workstations. This is totally unrealistic. ...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/categories/myPdcThoughts/2003/10/30.html#a499 PDC Conference Impressions - the Ugly, the Bad, and the Good- October 31, 2003 The Ugly Crowds, crowds, and crowds Couldn't get in to sessions because of crowds Couldn't move between sessions 'cause of crowds The Bad I started out with my IM signature saying "Wireless is Awesome!" It didn't take long to have to change that to read, "limping on wireless." The problems, DHCP times out every 15 minutes and one couldn't renew the address. Signal strength was "Excellent" but no IP address. Network down entirely on Tuesday. The labs (well at least...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/categories/myPdcThoughts/2003/10/30.html#a498 PDC Sessions in XML Format- October 10, 2003 Sai Ganesh, one of the developers on my team was searching through what PDC sessions he was interested in attending. He didn't like the web-like interface, however, so he plopped the session list in an XML file. Here is how he explains it: Open the file in Visual Studio 2003 and select Data tab. The file gets automatically loaded into a datatable and lets you sort the data. And easy way to find out what's going on when. A few abstracts and speakers are still missing though as..http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2003/10/10/PDCSessions.xml |