PDC 2008
Posted by bsstahl on 2008-10-26 and Filed Under: event
Next week I will be attending the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles. This will be my 6th PDC (of, I believe, 10). I will be attempting, as I have done in the past, to blog each session that I attend, as well as other events and functions at the PDC. I will also be updating my status on Twitter @bsstahl on a regular basis.
My current schedule looks like this:
Sunday, Nov. 26th:
- 1:40 PM - US Flight 29 PHX-LAX Arrives 3:08 PM PDT
- Hotel Check-in
- Conference Registration
Monday, Oct 27th:
- 8:30 AM - Keynote Address with Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia & David Thompson
- 11:00 AM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 with Cameron Skinner
- A Lap around Cloud Services Part 1 with Manuvir Das
- 12:45 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks with Dustin Campbell
- Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks with Peter Blois & Douglas Olson
- 1:45 PM - The Future of C# with Anders Hejlsberg
- 3:30 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code with Ian Ellison-Taylor
- A Lap around Cloud Services Part 2 with John Shewchuk
- 5:15 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Framework Design Guidelines with Brad Abrams & Krzysztof Cwalina
- Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies with Scott Hanselman
- Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio with Lori Lamkin & Sunder Raman
- IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job with John Lam
Tuesday, Oct 28th:
- 8:30 AM - Keynote Address with Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie & David Treadwell
- 11:00 AM - Keynote Address with Chris Anderson & Don Box
- 12:00 PM - AZ PDC Lunch Meet-Up at the Microsoft Store
- 12:45 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Building Search-Driven Portals with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight with Stein Danielsen & Jan Helge Sageflat
- Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote with Dan Fernandez, Scott Hanselman, Brian Peek & Clint Rutkas
- Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks with John Cunningham
- 1:45 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Developing Applications Using Data Services with Mike Flasko
- A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services with Ori Amiga
- Project "Velocity": A First Look with Murali Krishnaprasad
- A Lap around "Oslo" with Douglas Purdy & Vijaye Raji
- 3:30 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications with Jamie Cool
- Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices with Amit Chopra & Giorgio Sardo
- Live Services: Making your Application More Social with Angus Logan
- 5:15 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Entity Framework Futures with Tim Mallalieu
- Developing Connected Home Applications and Services for Windows Home Server with CJ Saretto & Fabian Uhse
- Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework with Raymond Endres
- 7:00 PM - Attendee party at Universal Studios
Wednesday, Oct 29th:
- 8:30 AM - Keynote
- 10:30 AM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and Insights with Dharma Shukla
- Exposing Connected Home Services to the Internet via Windows Home Server with Brendan Grant & CJ Saretto
- Panel: The Future of Programming Languages with Gilad Bracha, Douglas Crockford, Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer, Wolfram Schulte & Jeremy Siek
- 12:00 PM - Silverlight Controls Roadmap with Shawn Burke
- 1:15 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- SQL Server 2008: New and Future T-SQL Programmability with Michael Wang
- Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability with Steve Carroll & Ed Glas
- 3:00 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts with Abolade Gbadegesin
- "Dublin": Hosting and Managing Workflows and Services in Windows Application Server with Dan Eshner
- Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications with Pablo Castro
- 4:45 PM - Live Services: Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework with Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie
- 6:00 PM - Ask-the-Experts
Thursday, Oct 30th:
- 8:30 AM - 1 of the following sessions:
- SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications using Visual Studio 2008 with Chris Johnson
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server: How We Use It at Microsoft with Stephanie Saad
- Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation using Pex with Mike Barnett & Nikolai Tillmann
- 10:15 AM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh with Jeremy Mazner
- Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model with Karen Corby
- 12:00 PM - 1 of the following sessions:
- Live Services: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications with John Macintyre
- Services Symposium: Cloud or No Cloud, the Laws of Physics Still Apply with Gianpaolo Carraro
- 1:45 PM - An Introduction to Microsoft F# with Luca Bolognese
- 4:20 PM - US Flight 152 LAX-PHX Arrives 5:40 PM MST
- 6:00 PM - Collapse in an exhausted heap on my bed
All of this, of course, is subject to significant change...