[A.k.a. a work in progress] I’m sitting at gate 60, terminal 6 waiting for to board flight Continental CO16 heading for Newark / EWR in about an hour. This week has been crazy. Yes, really crazy. The program was so packed that I think I need at least a week to recover from both the [...]
After boarding our flight, CO38 heading for OSL we where told that there was a problem with the airplane. After waiting for about half an hour we were told that we had to change to another plane. So now we’re waiting outside the gate opposite to the gate we initially used – 113. Hopefully we’ll [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 * [...]
Microsoft’s new services platform US first – rest of the world later CTP now fraction of functionality now
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, 2x120cm beds and the best; an electronic toilet seat with a heating, bidet and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]