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 
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!
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.
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
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…)