Monday, August 15, 2005 - Posts

PDC Breakout Sessions

 "WinFS" and ADO.NET: Future Directions for Data Access Scenarios

 "WinFS" Future Directions: An Overview

 "WinFS" Future Directions: Building Data Centric Applications Using Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") and Windows Forms

 ASP.NET: Developing Portal UI Architectures with Web Parts

 Building Applications That Look Great in Windows Vista: The AERO Experience

 C#: Future Directions in Language Innovation from Anders Hejlsberg

 Developing P2P Applications using Windows Vista and the Windows Communication Foundation (“Indigo”) PeerChannel

 Developing Web Services Using ASP.NET and WSE That Interoperate with the Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo")

 Direct 3D Part 1: Utilizing the Maximum Power of the GPU in Your Graphic-Intensive Windows Vista ("Longhorn") Application

 Direct 3D (Part 2): Deep Dive into Building Real Time Graphics Applications Using Direct 3D

 Five Things Every Win32 Developer Should Know -  Raymond Chen

 Future Directions for Building Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") Interfaces

 Groove: Building Enterprise Workgroup Applications

 High Performance Computing with the Windows Server Compute Cluster Solution

 Lap around the WinFX and Win32 SDKs

 Microsoft Research: Future Possibilities in Concurrency

 MSN Search: Building Web and Desktop Search into Your Applications

 SQL Server 2005 CLR: Under the Hood on How We Host the CLR

 SQL Server 2005: BI Power Hour

 SQL Server 2005: Deep Dive on XML and XQuery

 SQL Server BI: Adding Reporting and Analysis to Smart Client Applications

 Ten Amazing Ways to Speech-Enable Your Application

 Tips & Tricks: Using Advanced Tools Features with XML and XSLT

 Using the "Metro" and "Office 12" XML File Format in Your Application

 Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects and Future Directions in Modeling Tools

 Visual Studio Tools for Office 'v3': Creating Office Application Customizations

 VSTS: Behind the Scenes of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server

 VSTS: Building More Reliable and Better Performing Web Applications with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): A Deep Dive into Best Practices Using the Windows Communications Foundation

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): A Deep Dive into Extending the Channel Layer

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): A Lap around the Windows Communications Foundation

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): Developing Manageable Web Services

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): Writing Reliable and Transacted Distributed Applications

 Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): Writing Secure Distributed Applications

 Windows Forms: Harnessing the Power and Flexibility of Windows Forms 2.0

 Windows Forms: Integrating Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon")

 Windows Forms: Occasionally Connected Smart Clients

 Windows Mobile: Development for Devices with Visual Studio 2005

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") + Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo") = Magic

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): A Lap around the Windows Presentation Foundation

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Advanced Graphics (Part 1)—2D, 3D and Text

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Advanced Graphics (Part 2)—Animations, Imaging, Effects and Media

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Beautiful Code, Beautiful Design - Applications Your Designers Can Work With

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Building User Interface with Advanced Layout Techniques

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Going Under the Hood To Understand the Architecture

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Optimizing Applications for Performance

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Overview of Windows Vista Graphics

 Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"): Using Data in Your Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") Applications: XML, Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"), ADO.NET and More

 Windows SharePoint Services: Developing Collaboration and Tracking Applications

 Windows SharePoint Services: Developing Custom Workflows

 Windows Vista ("Longhorn") Tablet PC: Advances in Creating Tablet Enabled Applications

 Windows Vista (“Longhorn”): What’s New in Software Installation for Windows Vista: Exploring the Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce Options

 Windows Vista Media Center: Developing for the 10-Foot Interface

 Windows Vista: Building RSS Enabled Applications

 Workflow + Messaging + Services: Developing Distributed Applications with Workflows

 XML Tools: Future Directions for Leveraging Advanced XML Tools and Building Custom XML Solutions

blogging my way to pdc 

I just thought I would jot down a few PDC Breakout Session that I don't want to miss. I soon realized that a clone would come in handy so we could blog about half of the Sessions we want to attend. I wish the PDC lasted a month, then I'd be sure to see everything I need to see and meet all the people I want to meet and maybe have time for a few beers!

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform. Be there to experience the keynotes, sessions, interactive labs, community forums, attendee party, and more. 

EDIT: The PDC has SOLD OUT.

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Web Feeds

Marks in the sand were the first form of content distribution availed by humans. Pictures on rock soon followed and somewhere there was the development of songs and stories to get the message out.

Writing on parchment and then the printing press incresed our collective human knowledge enormously. Radio enabled huge communities the opportunity to have a shared experience.

The telegraph connected continents with news and information. The telephone connected us person to person and television has become the reality for many of us.

Now our personal computers help us to create, gather and share information faster and better that any other means. Computers don't talk or understand human language, they have protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, POP, SMTP and FTP to communicate to other computers.

Extensible Markup Language XML is a simple, very flexible text format designed to meet the challenges of electronic publishing, XML is also plays an important role in the exchange of data on the Web and in system data bases.

Web feeds in RDF, RSS and Atom were the first chance we had to experence the power of XML. I'm still utterly amazed by how my blog is aggregated and syndicated by this simple technology.

Over the weekend a brouhaha erupted on the blogs about the renaming of RSS and ATOM feeds to the generic Web Feeds, the RSS click is incensed, because they thought they had won. Technology is constantly transforming our lives as it evolves and we adapt. I don't care what protocol sends my bit stream merrily on it's way, I just want to get the message out.

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