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Packing for the Microsoft PDC

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image 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 starting to see the end of the packing hell; my back hurts after ironing 7 shirts – I’ve probably packed 3 times the amount of clothing that I’m gonna use – but better safe than sorry :-P

I think I’ll use the time in the air to prepare some blog posts. I’m also planning on writing at least one blog post a day during the PDC to sum of the events of the day – but there may be more than one :-)

If you’re attending the PDC – please feel free to contact me at messenger: lars at sral dot org (that goes for mail too), twitter: larsw or voice/sms to +47 954 15 260 and we can hook up for a lunch or some after-sessions activities.

See  you at the PDC!


Microsoft PDC '08 & Los Angeles; here I come!

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Today, August 15th, is the last day you get a discount when you sign up for the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008, held in  Los Angeles, CA.

I have not been sure if I was going to make it to the PDC this year, giving that I’ve just started in a new company and I didn’t know on beforehand if the customer’s project manager would approve. I really thought TechEd EMEA would be more realistic, but today I actually managed to pull it off.

The answers was:

  • Miles: Of course, Lars! Go to the PDC.
  • Customer’s PM: Of course Lars! Go to the PDC.
  • @ home: Of course Lars! Go to the PDC.

So today I have signed up! Reserved a hotel room at the Miyako Hotel and ordered plane tickets through Seat24 with Continental Airlines. There’s a stop in Newark, NJ both to & from, but hopefully I’ll manage.

So, the thing to do now is to get an overview over the sessions that Microsoft has been announced.


New PDC’08 sessions published – 10 is the new 6!

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Found out through the PDC’08 Facebook group today that they have published 16 sessions. A couple of weeks ago, I read on Don Box’ blog that 10 is the new 6 but I didn’t exactly understand why. It is a mantra of the VC++ team and is refering to the long-living version 6 (with a lot of service packs) of Visual Studio. I am not sure if this is a signal that they want to stabilize around the upcoming (upcoming, like in next year or so) version 10 / Rosario of VSTS.

Read more here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2008/07/01/new-sessions-published.aspx