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Or at the least enebriated(sp?). Anyway, I missed the Channel 9 folks and ended up eating with the Coding 4 Fun booth guys. I don't remember names... hell I'm surprised I made it back. I'm even more amazed that I'm lucid enough to write this blog entry.

Oh... the hostess said that The Standard has a dance club on the roof. I may just show up there one night.

Night all... early day tomorrow with the Gates keynote @ 8:30a. Oh, and stay tuned for more hottie updates.

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I'm outta here (the New Otani) and headed over to the Channel 9 meetup. Maybe some of our hotties will be there! ;)

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Naturally Carl and Richard did a great show. After words I bought a CD of Franklin's music. He's going to send it to my company I think. Anyway, thanks again Carl for a great show...

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Does it get any better than this? I took this right outside the .NET Rocks show... he was just sitting there on his computer like he's a regular guy. He's all excited about some news he broke that Dave Winer linked to him about... but I'm too excited about hitting the bar to check it out now.

Thanks again Robert for posing.

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Create a message API in 20 minutes

Two Send methods (one with text, one with text and attachments).

Mail.Send(message);
Mail.Send(message, attachment);

Naturally they made the example answer WAY, WAY more complex than they suggested. Someone yelled out: FEATURE CREAP. LOL They included a sender address... but this wasn't part of the requirement. Hehe.

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This is so important when creating an API... I don't even know where to begin. Brad Abrams has gone on and on about this... and I wholeheartedly agree. Do it!

My pet peeve however... Look at VB - the class template (or any VB / ASP.NET template) doesn't even include a namespace statement!!! What kind of crap is that? C# comes with this plumbing right out of the box in 1.1.

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Which means CommNet went down. No internet access. This is the moment my laptop decides to begin a quick drain of power. Maybe it's aliens? LOL, nope it's Bejeweled.

The announcer just came on and told us to STAND BY. What the hell else are we going to do? PDC is shut down. No power, no PDC. Word on the street is the all of LA is having this problem. I doubt that, but time will tell.

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They've started checking to see if you registered... so I decided to join my initial session choice. Good thing too... they are giving out the Addison-Wesley book - Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.

Plus this hot latina walked in here. Heh.

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Oh, I forgot to mention this... the attendee party will be at Universal Studios... again. Several thousand developers will be descending on the park Wednesday from 7p-10:30p. Free entrance, no lines and free food. Not bad... its just that we already did this in 2003. I was kinda hoping for something different. Not that there is a lot of choice with LA. I hear that before 2000 it was held in Orlando. More options... and closer to my house. Plus a good portion of my family lives there. Or, stop the presses - why don't they do this in Vegas! Damn, that would be SWEET.

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Yep from 6-7p Carl will be puttin on a show. I will be there. Maybe I'll blog it? Nah, you'll get the audio within a week.

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My first night in LA there was some sort of fireworks that broke up my sleep. Last night it was blaring sirens a good part of the night. The sun comes in promptly at 7a (though I don't schedule awake time until 8a). If you ask me the sun is being damned inconvenient. Must be that stupid daylight savings thing. Ahhhhhhhhhh.

Anyway, it doesn't help that the New Otani gives you wafer thin pillows that feel like... well, pieces of cardboard. Now the Hilton does it right... some sort of feather-down pillow - those bad boys are a dream.

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I signed up for "Framework Design Guidelines: The Art of Building a Reusable Class Library" but ".NET Framework 2.0: The ASP.NET Web Perspective" is being hosted by Fritz Onion. I first met Fritz at the C# SummerCamp held on Microsoft's Campus back in his DevelopMentor days. He since moved on to PluralSight but I imagine he still knows his stuff. Both topics are interesting... but Fritz may just put the choice over the top.

Here's the description for Fritz's session:

Get ahead of the competition and see what the future of Web programming looks like. Explore first-hand and get an in-depth look at the next major release of ASP.NET and see working code samples demonstrating its use. Web developers benefit tremendously from the productivity and performance gains that ASP.NET brings to the Web application development process. This session provides you with a strong understanding of the fundamentals of programming using Visual Basic.NET (blah) and C# (wootness), and covers the basics of building scalable Web applications and Web services using ASP.NET

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Specifically they say build 5219.winmain_idx02.050824-2010 is going to be released today. Since the official start of the PDC is TOMORROW... and we can turn in our goodie card to pick up bits until AFTER the keynote - I find this highly unlikely that was released today. Especially since it's still only 8a.

But hey, they will probably be right - tomorrow that is.

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