28 October, 2008 (18:20) | Codename+Oslo, Keynote, Live+Blogging, PDC'08 | By: larsw
Next up is Don Box and Chris Anderson on Codename “Oslo”.
Stay tuned – live blogging.
Don Box – Distinguished Engineer Chris Anderson – Partner Architect
A Lap Around The Azure Services Platform
NO Powerpoints on stage! Only VS2010 – DEV 10!
Standards: Uri’s, HTTP & XML
My left arm is killing me – think I’ll have to put [...]
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28 October, 2008 (15:42) | Keynote, Live+Blogging, PDC'08, Windows+7 | By: larsw
Live blogging – clean up later:
Sorry, no pictures today – I had to leave the camera back at the hotel for charging Go find the live stream.
First off: Ray Ozzie
Yesterday: computing foundation
Today: User Interface
Front-end innovation – client OS – personal computing
PC – Phone – Web
* Full and high-performance access to displays & paripherals [...]
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27 October, 2008 (21:06) | C#, PDC'08 | By: larsw
Live from the session:
Will cleanup later:
evolution
1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0
impedence mismatch – programming languages and data
LINQ
Trends: Declarative / Dynamic / Concurrent
Declarative Programming
Imperative –> Declarative How - What
Dynamic Languages
* Simple and succinct * Implicitly typed * Meta-programming * No compilation
Static Languages
* Robust [...]
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27 October, 2008 (16:01) | Microsoft+Azure, PDC'08 | By: larsw
Microsoft’s new services platform US first – rest of the world later CTP now fraction of functionality now
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26 October, 2008 (20:01) | PDC'08, Traveling | By: larsw
Ok, just a couple of lines before I head out for some lunch. Arrived about an hour ago. My room is on the 9th floor and really really good – I got both cabled and wireless connection, a large LCD TV, 2×120cm beds and the best; an electronic toilet seat with a heating, bidet and [...]
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26 October, 2008 (19:56) | PDC'08, Traveling | By: larsw
The flight from EWR was only half an hour delayed – nothing compared to yesterday’s “delay & stay-over at the Sheraton” marathon (no pun intended). The food served on board is *not impressive; we got a tray with warm Egg & Cheese biscuit, a small muffin, a non-fat Yogurt (A product that really should be [...]
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26 October, 2008 (10:54) | PDC'08, Traveling | By: larsw
Ok, got up at 0450AM local time, took a shower and packed my stuff. Left for EWR at 0530AM and here I am eating breakfast at a French-inspired baguette shop. Ate a multi-grain baguette with roast beef & basil pesto – it was not bad, but not great either (I’m really no early breakfast man [...]
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25 October, 2008 (22:45) | PDC'08, Traveling | By: larsw
Continental Airlines flight CO39 from OSL to EWR that (that I happened to be on today) was delayed about 50 minutes something that started a small chain reaction; I missed my connecting flight to LAX and when I went to the rebooking desk I was told that I already was booked for the first flight [...]
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24 October, 2008 (20:26) | PDC'08 | By: larsw
Ok, it’s been a bit quiet on the blog the last week, basically caused by too much to do @home (Torill has been sick, so there’s been extra stuff to do…)
Now it’s 10:15PM or so here in Norway and I’m leaving Oslo Airport Gardermoen (OSL) at 11:25AM tomorrow morning, heading for LAX via EWR.
I’m [...]
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15 October, 2008 (10:20) | MSDN+Live, Steve+Ballmer | By: larsw
On September 30th 2008, Steve Ballmer held the keynote at MSDN Live Oslo. The Norwegian .NET User Group leaders where seated on two of the front rows, and had a great view of the “show”. Right after the keynote, we were rushed out to a backstage area where we got a handshake from the [...]
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