ISV blog-voer : PDC08

PDC 2009 - November 17-20 Nov 2009

Mark Voermans — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:50:52 GMT

If you were not at PDC 2008 you can now mark your calendar for next year! If you only watched the keynotes online and want to see the rest… you can now also view the published session videos , click on the desired session title in the session browser and select "play" icon located in the session details. (Note: that the session recordings open up in a Channel 9 window. Scroll down to resources to download the session PPT deck).

I love the idea on this blog:

“Make your own mini-PDC!

Lets face it, while many people probably watched the flashy keynotes, its hard for many people to watch the actual technical sessions where the real value is hidden.

How can you solve this? Make your own mini-PDC happen at your company! By next week all of the sessions should be posted online, therefore you can setup 1-day next week, buy some Pizza, invite your colleagues and watch those sessions most relevant to your company's development future.

Why do this? The answer is a simple list of benefits:

The team will have a great chance to bond
The team will learn about technologies that can benefit the business
Developers given a chance to think about technology and get away from the “Day-to-day” will get inspired about the future. This inspiration will lead to more creative problem solving and who knows, potential costing savings or potential revenue generation for the company!

The list can continue, but these points alone will hopefully be enough for you to take advantage of the fabulous content at PDC. Pick a day an give a mini-PDC a shot! The future really is delicious (and hopefully so will be the Pizza)!”

Mark

Office for the Web shown at PDC

Mark Voermans — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:53:00 GMT

The next Microsoft Office version includes Office Web applications that helps improve productivity and enhance the desktop experience by enabling people to access, create, edit, share and collaborate on Office documents across multiple devices.

New Web applications for Office were showed at Professional Developers Conference. The applications are lightweight versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that are used from within standard Web browsers. Anyone can use all of the Web, phone, and PC versions of Office to edit the same rich document, switching among them seamlessly with lossless file compatibility.

Office Web applications for Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will be available to individuals through Office Live, and to businesses though a hosted subscription and existing volume licensing programs. This new offering will be compatible with familiar Web browsers from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Microsoft will release a private Technical Preview of Office Web applications later this year. In the meantime, customers interested in learning more about the upcoming beta availability are encouraged to sign up for Microsoft Office Live Workspace.

Mark

Oslo’s first CTP Ships at PDC

Mark Voermans — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The first bits for Oslo should become available around Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) time. ”Oslo” is the codename for Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform. Modeling is used across a wide range of domains and allows more people to participate in application design and allows developers to write applications at a much higher level of abstraction. “Oslo” consists of:

A tool that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner
A language that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages and data models
A relational repository that makes models available to both tools and platform components

It will be available as an add-on to Microsoft's Visual Studio development suite. It includes a new programming language, a visual modeling tool, and a repository for storing models in a database. A modeling language is used by developers to specify the kinds of patterns and queries to be carried out by the software. Then the software itself would apply high-level queries to the model that the architect designed, simplifying and shortening the whole development process.

Oslo will (at least in CTP) be available as an add-on to Visual Studio, but with a visual modeling tool. The visual modeling tool will be helpful for comprehending complicated models. Underlying the visual modeler is a declarative programming language 'M' (formerly called 'D').

The repository is a SQL database of models and related metadata that allows developers or architects to look at models with database tools like Microsoft Access, Excel, or SQL Server Reporting Services. Likely, you'll have multiple repositories, such as for each project that would include models for business process, for security, and for other important elements of your software.

The schedule and final packaging for Oslo has not been announced.

Mark

PDC announcements

Mark Voermans — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:53:00 GMT

New interesting announcements on the PDC web site by the team:

A major lineup of executive keynote speakers representing most of the core Microsoft businesses
Featuring 20+ Windows 7 sessions, and we’ll be giving out the Win7 bits
Including in-depth symposia sessions including parallel computing and S+S

Keynote 1: Ray Ozzie laying out Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web and mobile devices. In the first keynote Ray will talk about the new world of Software Plus Services, with Bob Muglia joining him, to unveil our new Cloud Computing platform.

Keynote 2: Ray will return to talk about building immersive user experiences and introduce Steven Sinofsky, who will give developers a first look at the next version of Windows, Windows 7. Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell will also join Ray and Steven to dive deep on the latest Win32 and .NET platform advances that enable a next generation of user experiences spanning multiple devices, including a look at the latest developments in .NET, Silverlight, “Live Mesh”, and the rest of the client platform.

Keynote 3: is where the mic goes over to coders extraordinaire Don Box and Chris Anderson, who will look at Microsoft’s latest technologies through the eyes of working developers.

Keynote 4: Rick Rashid will talk about how Microsoft research is helping to shape the future of computing.

And, goodies!!!!!!!! ;-) It was announced on Channel 9 that all partners and customers attending the PDC will receive a 160GB external USB2 hard drive with all of the bits! Very nice!

So be there!!

Mark

Speciale PDC2008 korting voor Metro gebruikers

Mark Voermans — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:38:00 GMT

Voor ISV’s die deelnemen aan het Metro Early Adopter Program hebben we een speciale korting voor de PDC in Los Angeles! Tijdens je registratie kiezen voor "Register for the event using an RSVP Code" en de code gebruiken die je kan vinden onder ‘Global Accouncements’ op de Metro portal! Je krijgt dat $100 EXTRA korting boven op de Early Bird korting tijdens registratie!

Registreer je op : http://microsoftpdc.com.

Doe er je voordeel mee!

Mark

PDC Early Bird Discount verlengd

Mark Voermans — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:37:00 GMT

Vanwege de populariteit van de PDC2008 (Platform Developers Conference )is de Early Bird Discount verlengd met 3 weken. Registeer je voor Maandag 8 September 11:59 PM (Pacific Time) en bespaar $200 op de totale conferentie prijs!

Voor meer info over de PDC sessies, zie de PDC 2008 Sessie Agenda.

Mark

Windows 7 Details bekend tijdens PDC, WinHEC

Mark Voermans — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:21:34 GMT

Developers krijgen de eerste preview van het komende client OS momenteel ook bekend onder codename Windows 7 tijdens de Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Oktober en Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in de week erna. PDC is Okt. 26-29, en WinHEC Nov. 5-7. Beiden zijn in Los Angeles.

De aankondiging is gedaan in de nieuwe blog Engineering Windows 7 waar Jon DeVaan en Steven Sinofsky in een post schreven Welcome to Engineering Windows 7, "Our intent with Windows 7 and the pre-release communication is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about when we do talk."

Het team heeft tot nu toe maar weinig gesproken over de nieuwe features. Touch is besproken in een blog posting en video op, Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch.

Kijk op Engineering Windows 7 voor meer aankondigingen en nieuws.

Mark

PDC 2008, torrent van peer-to-peer geekologie

Mark Voermans — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:26:30 GMT

Ben je ooit op de Microsoft Professional Developers Conference geweest? Het is een evenement zo boordevol met goede content, informatie en nieuwe technologie dat deelnemers claimen dat hun hersenen ‘out of memory’ fout meldingen terug geven! Dat krijg je ervan wanneer een torrent van peer-to-peer geekologie richting je cerebral cortex giert.

Tijdens PDC2008, ontdek je er nieuw is op het gebied van ‘Cloud Services’, Live Mesh, Windows 7®, multi-core development, de Dynamic Language Runtime en F#. En veel meer maar we willen nog een paar verassingen bewaren ;-)

Ehhh, en ondanks dat het event in de US is toch een klein Nederlands tintje… als je je registreert voor 15 Augustus bespaar je $200 USD!

Dus:

PDC2008 ‘is the place to be’ waar je alles hoort over de toekomst van het Microsoft’s platform van de engineers en architecten die onze technologie bedenken en bouwen!
En dan nog de UnSessions, of beter gezegd de Open Space? Is onze conferentie binnen een conferentie voor deelnemers…er zijn weer Hands-On Labs de plaats waar je als geek je hard kan ophalen.
Gebruik je hele truckendoos om je baas te overtuigen je deel te laten neem een van de 10 super deep pre-con sessies, gegeven door industry experts en Microsoft technology leaders.
Luister naar Ray Ozzie en andere executives (no worries, zij hebben ooit ook code geschreven) zij delen hun perspectief over de toekomst van technologie en computing. We noemen ze keynotes en daar kun je groot nieuws verwachten!

Dus schat je hersens op de juiste waarde en schrijf je in! Registeer (http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/) voor PDC2008 voor 15 Augustus (www.microsoftpdc.com) om $200 te besparen!

Mark

Save the date! voor PDC08

Mark Voermans — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:35:25 GMT

Het is weer zover, na veel speculaties in diverse media......

http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc2008

Save the Date!

Announcing PDC08

October 27–30, 2008
Pre-conference October 26, 2008
Los Angeles, California

Goed nieuws dus!

Mark