On to TechEd Europe
Jun 24, 2004
Scott Nonnenberg, Brian Goldfarb, me, and lots of others are making the trek across the atlantic to TechEd Europe (in Amsterdam) next week. I haven’t been to Amsterdam since I was a young pup (~13 years old) and I have a feeling it’ll be a slightly different experience :) I’ll be blogging all the gory details of course, and www.techedbloggers.net is the place to visit for the lastest blogger info on TechEd Europe.…more
What do you want to hear about Java Migration?
Jun 21, 2004
I’m giving a talk for TechEd Europe at the end of next week and, while I have a good idea of what I think I need to talk about, I would love to get some advice on what you think would make the session really valuable. Session Title: _Migrating MSJVM and Other Java-Based Applications to the .NET Framework _Abstract: _Attend this session to learn how to detect and remove dependencies on the MSJVM, including options available for migrating MSJVM-based applications to the .…more
Game Developers in Seattle
Jun 18, 2004
Meltdown is a Game Developer Conference in Seattle July 27-28th. If you’re a game developer writing managed or unmanaged applications, this should be a great conference to attend. Speakers for the VS Track include: Tom Miller on managed Direct X Andy Pennell on debugging Peter Hallam on C# Brandon Bray on C++ Kang Su Gatlin on C++ Perf Jason Weber on VS Sean Sandys on VSTS and many more This should fun :)
TechEd 2004 is SOLD OUT!!
May 13, 2004
From the TechEd home page: _“Due to strong demand, Tech*Ed 2004 San Diego is now sold out. However, our Exhibit Hall-only passes are still available for Wednesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27.” _ Big congrats to everyone who’s working on TechEd, and you can thank Mr. Goldfarb for the developer track.
Back from VS Connections onto Bay.NET UG
Apr 26, 2004
I’m back from VS Connections, the demos for my talk went off pretty smoothly and I got to meet lot’s of great people. The people I talked to were really excited about C# 2005, and I got to show off some of the cool, new features that came online in the Community Tech Preview. I’m off to San Jose to present to Juval’s user group tomorrow. The fun doesn’t stop :)
Upcoming Events
Apr 14, 2004
VS Connections (April 18-21) Is anyone going to VS Connections in Orlando next week? I’ll be there, it should be lots of fun. I’m trying to cook up some fun demos for my talk on What’s new with the C# IDE. **Bay.NET User Group (April 27) **I’ll also be speaking at the Bay.NET user group on what’s coming in C# 2.0 thanks to all-around good guy and C# rock star, Juval Lowy.…more
Fun events for TechEd lounge
Mar 27, 2004
TechEd Developer Lounge We want to hear from you! Brian blogged about our meeting on Friday, and I’ll chime in on this as I think there are lots of cool things we could do. **Our #1 goal is to make the developer lounge a fun and exciting place for attendees to mingle. ** Are you interested in driving a Warthog to run over MS employees (like me) in Halo? How about seeing_ _Robert Scoble_ in a dunk tank_?…more
Back from MDC 2004
Jan 29, 2004
The Middle East Developer’s Conference was lots of fun, I only wish I had more time to enjoy Egypt. I presented two sessions, one on ASP.NET Whidbey and the other on C# Language Enhancements. The people at the conference were great and there were lots of great questions and discussion after the sessions. I also got to meet up with some Regional Directors that I hadn’t known before including Stephen Forte (of Orcsweb fame), Malek Kemmou (who answers the age-old question of what is the Sphinx looking at), and Patrick Hynds.…more
Upcoming Events
Jan 14, 2004
This week’s been super busy, and I’m probably not going to have any free or personal time. I won’t even attempt to list my To-Do list here, but I’m really, really busy. You may be interested in hearing about some upcoming developer events. Middle East Developer’s Conference 2004 (Jan 24-27, Cairo, Egypt) - I’ll be presenting two sessions on Visual Studio Whidbey including ASP.NET and C#. BillG is doing the keynote so it should be a great event to attend.…more
DARPA Cannonball Run
Nov 17, 2003
DARPA - The government agency that brought you the internet, is having a contest to win [begin Dr. Evil voice] One Million Dollars. How you ask? It’s an autonomous vehicular race (think KIT) from LA to Las Vegas. The premise is to get people thinking about autonomous vehicles to later adapt for military purposes. More details on the DARPA web site.