My PDC 2008 Agenda
// October 23rd, 2008 // Life
This Saturday I’ll be headed off to sunny Los Angeles for Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference 2008. This is the first time I’ve gone and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m staying at Hotel Figueroa, only a couple blocks from the Los Angeles Convention Center, and I’ve posted my tentative session agenda (more for my own reference than anything else) below. If anyone else would like to meet up for drinks after the sessions, drop me an email.
Pre-Conference / Sunday, Oct. 26
- 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
Creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight
Day One / Monday, Oct. 27
- 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Address - 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 1) - 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks - 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
ASP.Net 4.0 Roadmap - 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 2) or…
ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications - 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service or…
Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies or…
Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: A First Look
Day Two / Tuesday, Oct. 28
- 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Keynote Address - 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop - 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Essential Cloud Storage Services - 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment - 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Entity Framework Futures or…
ASP.NET and JQuery or…
Architecting Services for the Cloud
Day Three / Wednesday, Oct. 29
- 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Keynote Address - 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 - 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview - 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
“Oslo”: Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience - 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer or…
Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit or…
“Oslo”: Repository and Models - 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
A Lap around “Oslo”
Day Four / Thursday, Oct. 30
- 8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
WCF: Developing RESTful Services - 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications - 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Cloud Computing: Programming in the Cloud - 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
ASP.NET AJAX Futures or…
Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow




See you out there!
[b]My Agenda[/b]
http://www.dannydouglass.com/post/2008/10/23/Heading-to-Microsoft-PDC-2008.aspx
I really wish I could make it out to PDC this year, but sadly it doesn’t look like it is going to happen. Hope you have some good posts on how it went!
Hi Justin, thanks, I hope to have some good posts as well!
Besides the ASP.Net 4.0 roadmap and the Windows 7 stuff, I think I am most excited to learn about MS’ cloud computing platform (Strata?). I’ve been toying with Amazon SimpleDB recently, including messing around with your Linq-to-SimpleDb provider.
Any chance that you’ll update it to work with the latest releases of SimpleDB? It has sorting now. =)
Hopefully MS will knock my socks off and I won’t care a wit about SimpleDB by the time I come back from LA. Here’s to hoping!