Sunday, June 03, 2007 - Posts

• PDC 2007 rescheduled?

  huh? Why? For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More... Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:52 PM from Paul Fallon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd and PDC

• PDC 2007 Postponed

  I am sitting here prior to TechEd 2007 at a Microsoft Regional Director meeting. I got to chatting with a few folks about the decision to postpone the PDC until 2008 and the more I think about it the more I think they made the right decision. Mix07 covered the latest and greatest of the web technologies. TechEd will serve as the vehicle for many of the remaining IT and developer announcements. Orcas should be out the door by the time PDC would hit. Katmai should be well on the way out the door. What long lead types of things would they cover? I would hate to go to a PDC and then have either: a) them not talk about anything 12–18 months off or b) have them talk about stuff that is a ways out but not provide any bits. Key theme for PDC has always been if you don’t provide bits you don’t get to speak. I want that to continue and I want Microsoft to have relevant content and if that means delaying until 2008 then so be it… Read More... Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:30 PM from .NET Musings | 0 Comments

• Agenda and Sessions for this years Irish Microsoft Technology Conference

  Hi all, we are only a few days away from having of yearly big conference, lots of great sessions, speakers and a brillant venue!! This is one not to miss. You can register over at this link, just look at the agenda/sessions below!! How could you not attend :) Hope to see you there, /Paul ps Note the agenda is subject to change. Time Intervals Screen 1 Screen 2 Screen 3 09:00 - 09:15 Registration and Breakfast 09:15 - 09:30 09:30 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome Address 10:00 - 10:15 10:00 - 11:15 Service Broker - processing work asynchronously Simon Sabin 10:00 - 11:00 SDLC the Team System Way Ronan Gray 10:00 - 11:15 Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 1 of 2) Tim Sneath 10:15 - 10:30 10:30 - 10:45 10:45 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:15 11:15 - 11:30 11:15 - Microsoft's Virtualisation Strategy and Products Dave Northey 11:30 - 11:45 11:30 - 12:45 Forget Passwords! Implementing CardSpace in WebApps & Services Dominick Baier 11:30 - 12:45 Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 2 of 2) Tim Sneath 11:45 - 12:00 12:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 12:45 12:45 - 13:00 13:00 - 13:15 13:00 - 14:00 Visual Studion for DB Pros (aka Datadude) Alan Crowley 13:15 - 13:30 13:30 - 13:45 13:30 - 14:45 Windows Server Code Named 'Longhorn' Dave Northey 13:30 - 14:45 Visual Studio "Orcas" & Ajax Steve Marx 13:45 - 14:00 14:00 - 14:15 14:15 - 14:30 14:15 - 15:15 Handling the Mobile Pain Points Andy Wigley 14:30 - 14:45 14:45 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:15 15:00 - 16:15 WCF Essentials - What everyone needs to know Paul Fallon (Level 200) 15:00 - 16:15 Designing Ultimate Experiences with Expression Studio Carrie Longson 15:15 - 15:30 15:30 - 15:45 15:30 - 16:30 BizTalk Meets CSI Gar Mac Criosta 15:45 - 16:00 16:00 - 16:15 16:15 - 16:30 16:30 - 16:45 16:45 - 17:00 16:45 - 18:00 How to Use Indexes to Speed Up Your SQL Server Database Hugo Kornelis 16:45 - 18:00 Exploring Ajax Patterns Steve Marx 17:00 - 17:15 17:00 - 18:00 Hardcore WCF - WCF Internals, customising WCF Paul Fallon (Level 400) 17:15 - 17:30 17:30 - 17:45 17:45 - 18:00 18:00 - 18:15 18:15 - 18:30 18:15 - 19:30 Rob's Last Stand: XNA, Microsoft Robotics Studio, 360s, Wiis and Dancing Robots Rob Burke 18:15 - 19:30 CLR User-Defined Types in SQL Server 2005 Hugo Kornelis 18:15 - 19:30 Hacking websites for fun and profit Barry Dorrans 18:30 - 18:45 18:45 - 19:00 19:00 - 19:15 19:15 - 19:30 19:30 - Late Receptio n For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More... Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:26 PM from Paul Fallon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET;Architecture;Biztalk;Irish Dev. Community;MSDN;SDLC;SO and SOA;SQL Server;TechEd and PDC;The 64bit World;Transactions;Troubleshooting;WCF (aka Indigo);Web 2.0;Web Services;Windows Workflow;WinFx

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  This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (ddc2c078-1431-403e-9930-4806c3f01174) For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More... Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:16 PM from Paul Fallon's Blog | 0 Comments