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My PDC Session List – part 2
Continuing the trend from yesterday I post my session list for Wednesday September 14th.
| Timeslot | Session |
| 8.30 – 10.30 | General Session |
| 10.30 – 12.15 | COM200 – Applications and Communications Roadmap: Platform Presents and Futures |
| 12.15 – 1.45 | Lunch |
| 1.45 – 3.00 | TLN306 – The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview |
| 3.15 – 4.30 | TLN307 – C#: Future Directions in Language Innovation from Anders Hejlsberg |
| 5.00 – 6.15 | PRS312 – ASP.NET: Future Directions for Developing Rich Web Applications with Atlas (Part 1) |
| 7.00 – 11.30 | Attendee Party at Universal Studios  |
My PDC Session List – part 1
Today I started planning my PDC attendence list. And for all of you to see, I’ve decided to post it on my blog. The following list is for Tuesday September 13th 2005, I’ll post the list for the rest of the days later.
| Timeslot | Session |
| 8.30 – 11.30 | Keynote |
| 11.30 – 1.00 | Lunch |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | DATL04 – Case Study: Putting a Conference in Your Pocket or PRSL06 – Tips, Tricks & Hacks: Unlocking the Power of Virtual Earth |
| 1.00 – 2.15 | TLN410 – CLR: Writing a Dynamic Language Compiler in One Hour |
| 2.45 – 4.00 | FUN404 – .NET Compact Framework 2.0: Optimizing for Performance or TLN303 – Monad: Advanced Command Line Scripting |
| 4.15 – 5.30 | PRS203 – IE 7: What’s New in IE |
Microsoft Interns Video
This is frickin’ great! Some interns at Microsoft created a music video over a slightly modified N’Sync song. It’s called “Bye, Bye, Bye”.
A little scary, a little funny, but it’s pretty cool that our interns have enough
creativity to do videos like this.An explanation for two of the inside jokes:
1. “t-” is the prefix that intern emails get, and sometimes can be used in a slightly
hazing way (but always open and respectful <G>)2. People often use creating ways to get the body part that their badge is attached
to close enough to the reader, hence the part in the video where they are innapropriately
touching the pole with a reader attachedI will say, I hope they can code/spec/test, because N’Sync shouldn’t be too worried
[Via Chris Anderson]
Strange access denied error in ASP.NET
So I was developing some ASP.NET for the soon to be relased Community Site from Microsoft DK to students, and occasionally I got a strange error. Apparently ASP.NET couldn’t get access to a particular assembly, and therefore bunked out. Some times a quick “iisreset” helped, other times it didn’t.
I finally took the pill and searched for it, and lo and behold there was a knowledgebase article about it:
PRB: Access Denied Error When You Make Code Modifications with Index Services Running
The tip is now passed on.
Rails place in the web app space
The following quote hits the duality between Ruby on Rails and more “traditional” architectures such as .NET (ASP.NET) and J2EE (JSP and Servlets):
At the bottom of all of this is my core belief that Rails is for building web sites and web applications, not Enterprise Applications That Happen To Have a Browser-Based View. For those of us who are tasked with building those latter applications, Im pretty much positive, given todays landscape, that Ill stick with Java. Through Java, I get three major things I dont get in Rails: JTA, JMS, java.security.manager.
…
Since my Fortune100 clients are pretty darn sure that all three are vital to their ongoing success, Rails (and its Ruby underpinnings) just arent going to cut it for them yet.
[Via Justin Gehtland]
This is exactly the subject of some of the discussions I’ve had with my fellow mates and students, and at the end of the day it all boils down to: “Use the right tool for the job™”.
But this means that I should shift away from my standard single web app framework of PHP and MySQL, and to Rails. If only I could convince the University to run Rails…
Yet another MSP CodeCamp
As I posted recently Jakob and I have held an informal MSP CodeCamp, the purpose being to set up the up coming Community Site for Microsoft Student Partners, and university students in Denmark.
So today I biked over to Jakob once again for a hefty round of CommunityServer code and template smashing. It went great and I got a long way. Tomorrow I’ll continue with the site, and hopefully make a beta, which special people will see and test
The release date for the site is set to September 1st. Domain name to be announced.
An MSP gets noticed by Gretchen
Gretchen recently asked for cool creative submissions to demonstrate passion for technology and the works. Luke Smith did this, and lo and behold, he’s a Microsoft Student Partner. Maybe I should whip up something creative…
Well, “Microsoft Luke” sent me this great video his friends put together in his honor. Luke was a Microsoft Student Partner for his university last year, and this was his “Mac-loving friends” tribute to him. He didn’t create it himself, but I’d say it counts. :)
Enjoy!
gretchen
[Via Gretchen Ledgard]
PDC05 is sold out!
Maybe you should add yourself to the waiting list
Thank you for the tremendous response…. we’re really excited about meeting all of you in LA for this PDC.
While registration is now closed, we will be maintaining a waitlist. In order to be added to this list please visit this site. For an event of this size there are typically a small number of cancellations and other changes, so some slots do typically become available. Adding yourself to the waitlist does not guarantee that you will be able to register. If space becomes available, the PDC05 Registration Team will contact you with instructions on how to complete your registration. Attendees will be chosen based on the date and time they submit their waitlist request.
Thanks again for your support! See you in LA!
The PDC05 Team
[Via PDC05: Developer Powered]
Write up on Imagine Cup 2005 from a Belgian student
Jay@Web: Our Story in Yokohama.
Day by day diary about their experiences and adventures at Imagine Cup 2005 in Japan.
[Via Tom Mertens]