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October 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Research Part II

On the plane going to PDC Bruce mentioned a new product from MSR that he had downloaded called Pex. Then when the Expo hall opened at PDC we eventually made our way to the MSR section of the hall. There was Pex. We watched an excellent and very enthusiastic Read More...

Microsoft Research Part I

This year at PDC Microsoft Research was here in force. I have seen them at PDC before, I'm sure of it, Although they tell me it was just a smattering. This year they had a section of the Expo Hall, The Wednesday Morning key note was done completely by Read More...

Blogging and Beer!

I have not blogged anything for the past two days. I've had very little time between key notes breakout sessions and visiting the Microsoft Booths in the Expo Hall, I could Blog and do all that but then add client work to the mix and there goes the extra Read More...

PDC Show Off

Last night we went to a PDC event called Show off. Where people submitted videos of cool stuff they had written using Microsoft Technologies. The best was Brian The Build Bunny I may just have to buy one of these wireless build notification appliances Read More...

More VSTS 2010

The new VSTS 2010 has me so excited that I sat in on another session. Now I am sad because I have to go back to work and use VSTS 2008. :( In 2010 you can: Have multiple Build Agents on one Build server Use a Workflow designer to completely Customize Read More...

C#

After lunch there was only one session that interested me. C# IDE Tips and Tricks.It seems everyone else wanted to see this one also. I went a few minutes late and was sent to an overflow room. From there I was sent to another overflow room, which was Read More...

VSTS 2010

I attended my first session on VSTS 2010. WOW! This team has been very busy. This session was geared to developers, however it was about testing and architecture features. Here are some highlights I thought were pretty cool: Testing The Tester executes Read More...

PDC KeyNote

This is my 4th PDC. I have to be honest this is the dullest Key Note yet. To be fair Cloud computing is a tough thing to show. Everyone is doing a good job of getting across Windows Azure. So far two partners have come up to talk about how they are using Read More...

PDC here we come...

Later today I will be heading for the airport to fly to L.A. for my fourth PDC. This year I am going with another ObjectSharp partner Bruce Johnson. From everything I have been reading it looks like we are going to learn a lot about Cloud Computing. I'm Read More...