Michael Slade: PDCComments about Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC)(Untitled)- October 27, 2003 The XML and Web Services Pre-Conference was great. Don, Martin, and Tim were fanastic. The key the thing I learned is that I need to get going with WSE. Tim's final point was start working with WSE because that will help you in getting ready for Indigo.http://www.mslade.com/categories/pdc/2003/10/26.html#a39 (Untitled)- October 26, 2003 It is Sunday. I got in line before 7 AM to check in. Have your badge and a photo ID ready. It went quick. You get coupons to get your materials and your t-shirt. In your bag is Office 2003 Pro. The T-shirt says on the back "I was ther at the beginning... .NET Longhorn, Yukon, Whidbey. The important disks will not be available until 11:45 AM on Monday. Now I am off to the Marketplace which opens in 10 minutes, then off to Don Box's...http://www.mslade.com/categories/pdc/2003/10/26.html#a38 (Untitled)- October 26, 2003 On Sat. I walked to the LA Convention Center to get the look of the place. It was very quiet and very empty. During the week it can be a "real" circus. I took a number of pictures. Wireless access is everywhere. You will see a number of stands that have access points on top of them. One of the network operators said that there are 130 APs around the site. There is an Xbox game room, where you can battle others playing Halo. The pictures can be...http://www.mslade.com/categories/pdc/2003/10/26.html#a37 (Untitled)- October 26, 2003 My first post from the PDC is on getting ready and getting to LA. I have been getting ready for the PDC over the last few weeks. I have been getting Ghost images of my hard drives ready. Creating backup DVDs of the software if I want to re-load my laptop from scratch (OS, VS, Office, Servers, etc.). I also zipped everthing up so its on my laptop as well. I have about 40GB free of the 120GB. Even though I live in the Cleveland area, I flew out of Pittsburgh,...http://www.mslade.com/categories/pdc/2003/10/26.html#a36 |