PDC2008

Oslo : First Impressions

Michael Cummings — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:39:36 GMT

Oslo is a platform of technologies designed to help us create model driven applications. Currently Oslo is composed of 3 components; A language , a tool, and a database.

Red Dog : Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform

Michael Cummings — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:49:26 GMT

Microsoft announced at PDC 2008 yesterday that the project they have been working on for cloud computing called Red Dog has a final name as Azure (ăzh'ər). At a dinner function last night there was some debate on the proper pronunciation of the word, but it's origins are pretty clear. It comes from the Persian, for the location of the Lapis Lazuli.

Together @ PDC2008

Michael Cummings — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:58:10 GMT

So I am at the PDC this year with the Together @ PDC2008 program from Microsoft. This allows various people to go to the PDC with Microsoft Employees. This year I am buddied up with Chris Bowen, my Regional Developer Evangelist.

Play with the Brain!

Michael Cummings — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:49:49 GMT

Ok, so I am really bored tonight and avoiding working on some presentations I need to finish, but this was just a little bit of fun. The great minds at Microsoft thought that it would be interesting to make the PDC brain 'intelligent' and offer up a web site where you can ask it questions. It reminded me a bit of those old Eliza-esque programs that basically repeated back what you said in question for, but only less knowledgeable. Below is a snippet of our 'conversation'.

So go ahead and have you own bit of fun with the brain at http://askthebrain.net/

More PDC Sessions Added

Michael Cummings — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:47 GMT

I was just checking out the PDC site for the upcoming event and noticed that they had added more sessions. Now I had already gone and added a bunch of interesting sessions to my schedule, most of my time slots are now triple or even quadruple booked. I got quite a shock as I was looking at the neat tag cloud thingy they have for browsing the sessions by topic.

Can you believe it? There is a session for XNA! I was quite impressed that there were two sessions at TechEd Developers for XNA.

My top topics so far are : Oslo, Identity, Cloud Services, Languages, Live Mesh and Sync Framework

I'm sure more will creep in as time goes on, I know that I'll do a couple SharePoint and Silverlight sessions.

See you there!

I'm going to PDC 2008!

Michael Cummings — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT

I haven't been to a PDC since 1997. The big announcement that year was 'ActiveX'. It was a great event and I have high hopes for this years event as well.

This year the topic seems to be 'cloud computing'. I'm going to enjoy steeping myself into this technology. I just found out that Don Box is now going to be part of the keynote as well. It's sure to be a great time and there'll be more reports here.