Last day of the conferense

Went to the Askt The Experts yesterday. It was fun as always. I had a chat with people from the Team architect team, live Mesh and Oslo Repository.
First session of the day: Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services
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Team Architect stuff

I watched the presentation Architecture without Big Design Up Front, presented by Peter Provost. He, as a member of the Agile community had a different spin on the architecture capabilities. Not as much designing architecture in the ivory tower and dropping it on the developers but as a tool for demystifying code. Capabilites like automatic [...]

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When wrong goes good

I was going for one session. But I entered the wrong room and got into the room where the session “Oslo”: Repository and Models  was to be held. I had considered this session as well and determined to stay. Lucky me! The session before this one was mediocre, this one however was very interesting and [...]

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Reflections on PDC2008 so far

Some inteesting things they showed at PDC:
Windows Azure – The biggest thing presented so far I think. The idea of cloud computing suddenly got somewhat more concrete with Microsofts offering. Time will tell how successfull Azure will be, but the concept is tempting. I got myself an Azure account yesterday and will be doing some [...]

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Windows Azure – I’m in

I just received my credentials for logging on and using Windows Azure.
Now I can start testing some of the cool stuf that Chris and Don showed on the Keynote.
And connect, somehow, to Oslo and integrate with my Live account, calendar maybe? Fun fun fun

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What is "Oslo"?

I heard on a pod cast “A tool, a language, and a runtime”.

After the previous session, “A lap around Oslo” (the blurry picture is from that session, it was clear that DSLs could be both visual and textual (or rather viewed as?).
First impression: Oslo is more interesting than I thought it would be before this [...]

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Stampede for "The Goods"

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Right after Don and Chris Keynote the stampede for “The Goods” started.

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Nice connection azure => mesh

Nice demos of how mesh was enabled by the  azure platform and services.
Got to take a look at the BBC iPlayer. They had a really cool demo.
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Breakfast finished, waiting for keynote #2

At  breakfast we had the opportunity to talk with G.S. Rana from the Windows Azure team. He had the same kind of glowin red shoes that people on the keynote had yesterday. He told us it was because Azure was code-named red dog internally.
I said that I was impressed that Azure hadn’t leaked prior [...]

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Funny Hanselman

Just ended the day with the session “Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies” by Scott Hanselman. Have read Scotts blogg and listened to his podcasts at hanselminutes.com and found him entertaining and educating. This presentation was something extra, good overview of a lot of technicques and very very funny.

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