The Problem Solver : PDC

Fun at the PDC

Maurice — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:58:31 GMT

The PDC wasn't all hard work, we sure had some fun too .

As always there where a number of product group dinners. This year the C#, VB and F# product groups joined up and had a dinner together. I am at the right bottom, check Anders sitting at the left back end of the table. Lots of other team members and MVP's where there and we had a great time!

The party this year was at Universal Studio which is always a nice place to go to. Before we went there was another product group dinner to attend and afterward I drove with Beth and Alan to Universal Studio.

Last time Beth was in the Netherlands for the SDC I drove her around and this time she got to drive me around. The drive over was fun and fast, Beth drives like the Italian in her and this was with her "slow" car as she also has a tuned Subaru. This is Beth getting chased by a zombie.

Some of the creatures in Universal Studio where really creepy and well done.

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PDC session download

Maurice — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:17:52 GMT

Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx. You see all sessions but it takes a bit of work. Another nice way is through Channel 9 by using the following feed: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/pdc2008/RSS/?tag=videos.

But the best as far as I am concerned is using the list compiled by Greg Duncan. Check this list http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/10/pdc2008-quick-video-link-list.html. And it even has the Visual Basic source code used to generate the list

Enjoy the videos!

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Windows 7

Maurice — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:48:00 GMT

One of the things launched at the PDC is Windows 7. A number of new features where mentioned but the one I find most intriguing is being able to boot of a virtual hard disk. I use VMWare quite a bit, in fact I do most of my development in virtual machines, but that always means running a copy of Windows inside of Windows. Now the host Windows is actually not doing all that much except host the virtual machine and, being Vista, eat a lot of resources in the process. So the ability to get rid of the host and just run the virtual machine seems like great feature.

Another interesting thing is that Microsoft seems to be pushing Windows 7 with the first beta starting real soon. My guess is they want Windows 7 to replace Windows MEsta (oops that should be Vista) as soon as possible.

Enjoy Windows MEsta in mean time.