Best of PDC Phoenix in Tweets

Posted by bsstahl on 2008-12-14 and Filed Under: event development 


Joe Guadagno has posted his summary of The Best of PDC in PHX. This was a great event and I want to make sure those who put it together, spoke, and sponsored it know we are tremendously appreciative of their efforts.  This includes: Joseph Guadagno, Scott Cate and Rob Bagby as well as Microsoft, Robert Half Technology, TekSystems and GoDaddy.

I think that the best summary I can give of my experience at this event is through the tweets I sent in real-time while there.  Below, are what I think are my tweets most representative of the experience.

At first I hated that C# didn't have optional params. Now I know that life is better w/o them. Sorry C# 4.0.

Wells Fargo Center has much more comfy chairs than most conference centers #PDCPHX

"...and I say 'thingey' in the most technical way possible." - Rob Bagby #phxpdc

Did Rob Bagby just invoke Don Box? #phxpdc

XBox at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs Rob? #phxpdc

I don't envy @scottcate having to follow Rob Bagby at #phxpdc

Rob Bagby on Intellisense: "I just got nerdly goosebumps". #phxpdc

Notepad!!! #phxpdc

To the non-dev-geek members of my family: no I will not stfu about #phxpdc

I always feel so dirty after demos involving json. #phxpdc

Tunneling an HTTP Put through a Post seems like a massive cluge. #phxpdc

W00t, I finally got @stupiderr on Twitter!

Declarative programming, what a concept... #phxpdc

Rob Bagby is weakening on his anti-Twitter stance. Hit him now while his defenses are down. Resistance is Futile. #phxpdc

"automagically" is a word whose time has come and gone.

It's important for me to know what's available in the Ajax world, but I have no desire to live there anymore. Silverlight FTW!

OK, let's talk Silverlight! #phxpdc

@stupiderr "genie blink"? I am so uncool!

Azure Party Planning Services now live! #phxpdc

Rob Bagby can give presentations on the same topic 2 days in a row that are totally different and both awesome. #phxpdc

#phxpdc Crowd reference to "Hailstorm". Nicely done sir.

Imo the best example of cloud service bus at PDC was in the Don Box/Chris Anderson keynote. #phxpdc

He already said, "you don't need schema"... #phxpdc

First "Animal House" reference of the day goes to Rob. #phxpdc

I don't like the SOAP API for SDS right now. SQL string queries are so 1990s. #phxpdc

Using Linq to project query results into a POCO is awesome. #phxpdc

@steeleprice it means CLR Obj to me. That Linq trick should work in VB too. But then again, I'll always be VB at heart.

@scottcate, @jguadagno, and Rob were all amazing today! Great event! Thank you all!

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