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My PDC09 Schedule

// November 15th, 2009 // Life

I’ll be leaving in the morning for LA to attend Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference ‘09. I feel like I learned a lot about attending PDC at last year’s PDC and the below schedule is quite tentative as I plan to attend as many open sessions as possible. If you’re at PDC this year, shoot me an email and let’s grab a beer!

Monday, Nov 16

• 01:00 PM – Arrive at hotel.
• 07:00 PM – Attending “Party with Palermo” at The Mayan.

Tuesday, Nov 17

• 08:30 AM – Keynote
• Toss-up between…
  • 11:00 AM – Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer
  • 11:00 AM – Data Tier Applications in Visual Studio 2010
• 12:30 PM – Using Dynamic Languages to Build Scriptable Applications
• 01:30 PM – Microsoft ASP.NET Futures
• 03:00 PM – Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Core Runtime for Web Developers
• 04:30 PM – Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests

Wednesday, Nov 18

• 08:30 AM – Keynote
• Toss-up between…
  • 11:30 AM – Microsft Perspectives on the Future of Programming
  • 11:30 AM – ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips
• 01:00 PM – BOF @Lunch: ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches
• 02:00 PM – ADO.NET Data Services: What’s New with the RESTful Data Services Framework
• 03:15 PM – Rx: Reactive Extensiosn for .NET
• 04:30 PM – Scaling Your Data Tier with Microsoft Project Code Name “Velocity”

Thursday, Nov 19

• 08:30 AM – PLINQ: LINQ, but Faster!
• 10:00 AM – What’s New For WCF 4
• Toss-up between…
  • 11:30 AM – F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming
  • 11:30 AM – Workflow Services and “Dublin”
• 12:45 AM – Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks
• 01:45 PM – Extending IIS 7.x
• 03:00 PM – Using the Microsoft Sync Framework to Connect Apps to the Cloud

Friday, Nov 20

• 11:00 AM – Leave for LAX.