OMG!! WTF!? Dude, I totally feel like an ignorant moron! (Sorry for the childish and cheesy intro but I have the worst brain overload since PDC05!) Fortunately I’ve had a few days to think about it and now I feel I am slowly landing on my feet again. Here is my summation of PDC 2008! Future looks promising with the cloud and all that surrounds it! I’ve got to say that I can’t wait to build my first live service in the cloud. I already have a service in mind as a demo. However I will have to...

Need I say more? http://brad_abrams.members.winisp.net/Projects/PDC2008/DotNet4Poster/DotNetFramework4PosterDeepZoom.htm Brad Abrams put it out there for us! Cheers, M. Technorati Tags: .NET Framework,PDC08This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

The language gods (or icons if  you will) do this at every PDC; engage in a panel and discuss where we are and what the directions for programming languages for the future. On the panel this year we had: Gilad (Newspeak) Bracha, Douglas (Javascript) Crockford, Anders (C# Amen) Hejlsberg, Erik (LINQ, Volta and more) Meijer (as usually hosting), Wolfram Schulte, Jeremy (C++) Siek.   ...

It is inspiring to se how Microsoft act in academia (15% of MS Research budget goes direct to grants and mor) and to see the number of areas where they are active. MS as 850 PhDs employed all over the the world to day! A research project is to project two images in parallel from underneath the surface. In fact the images flicker faster than you are able to detect. This means you can project an image on the surface of the Surface and a second image on a piece of plastic or paper being held above the surface....

(Filed under noise but related to the fact that I am at the PDC in Los Angeles!) Does Murphy’s law apply to stone floor tiles as well as other things? I just got a shipment of 42 m2 of stone floor tiles delivered to the street outside my home today back home in Sweden! This makes up a couple of tons of stone! Of course my wife is pregnant an cannot carry the stone into our hallway. ;~) But I do love the PDC though! You gootta laugh… what else is there to do? Cheers,...

I don’t know if you all care or even know but the first version of Entity Framework got some enthusiastic feedback from (unwilling?) parts of the .NET community! In plain English: EF was bashed by among others the ALT.NET movement due to couple of unforgiving initial problems like not supporting model first and not supporting POCO. Today I had the joy to witness a very diplomatic and talented Tim Mallalieu navigate the feedback given and showing how to make the EF V2 a lot better for different groups of users. The most important (?) user; the Agilist...

Be green with envy… ;~) I can’t wait to install Windows 7 with Visual Studio 10 and give it a spin! M. Technorati Tags: PDC08,Microsoft,WindowsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

No PDC would be true to form if it didn’t leave you really really baffled and breathtaken. Anders talks tend to do that to you. This year certainly was not exception to that rule. Neither Anders talk nor PDC for breathtakenness (is that even a word?)! I just saw Anders demo cool stuff from the upcoming C# 4.0 and C# 5.0! Even though I’d already seen some of the stuff from Anders earlier talk on the languages I was still blown away! All of what I wrote in that post still applies and here are a few added points: ...

Me – but you knew that, you are reading this! ;~) Linus Roslund Björn Carlsson (in Swedish) Truls Clauss (in Swedish) The company blog: blog.dotway.se Cheers, M. Technorati Tags: PDC08This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

OK – the Identity Roadmap for Software + Services session at PDC by Kim Cameron and Vittorio Bertocci delivered. And they delivered good! I have a problem with this offering, please read below! They are the First Two Lines of Every Connected Application are: 1. Who are you? 2. What are you allowed to do? The solution is to utilize a claims based system. A claim is a statement made about one party about another party. A claim in itself is useless. What is important however is if your app, coded by you, decides to act...

(This .NET Performance by Design review turned out to be a summary of resources, tools and tips & tricks surrounding .NET Performance and Designing for Performance. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it.) There is a lot you can do in respect to taking the correct steps to make sure you have considered performance to a big enough extent in your design of an application in .NET. What’s with the belt and suspenders mumbo-jumbo in the opening sentence here? Well. First of all; it depends. Second I don’t want to offend the YAGNI/premature optimization guys...

I’m very impressed with the genetic algorithm used to create the Master Session List for PDC 2008. It worked near perfect for me! Approximately 55% of all attendees entered their session preferences in the MySessions section of the PDC site. Mike - he’s the content owner for PDC - used this data and a bunch of other factors to arrange all the sessions in an as optimal solution as possible. Optimal being the most satisfactory solution for all factors involved. Attendee satisfaction was a factor in the calculations. Meaning if I as an attendee am able to attend...

Now that’s funny! Sorry you guys… I’m such a geek: http://vimeo.com/1873174 More seriously: It’s gonna be so cool getting one of the first Windows 7 copies. Being the true bleeding edge nut that I am I will try to run it as a developer environment and see what happens! ;~) Goes without saying that I will live blog from PDC, and twitt of course: http://twitter.com/noopman Cheers, /Magnus Technorati Tags: pdc08,Microsoft

A while back I happily announced that I will be going! See you at the PDC 2008! I've also blinged my blog properly http://blog.noop.se. Now the time has come to begin building up my own expectations about PDC and to share my sentiments about this great event! But first a recap: Our company (Dotway) went 14 people to PDC 2005 and it was really cool! After my girlfriend at the time came over to California and we drove around (a big drive through San Diego, Tijuana, Rosarito (Mx), Palm Springs, Lake Havasu City, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and back...

Just 'blinged my blog' with the fact that I AM GOING! To the PDC 2008! (And I added a new tag for all the posting I will be doing about the event!) Get your own PDC bling here and I'll see you there! Sound off in the comments if you want to hook up at the event! Cheers, /Magnus Technorati Tags: PDC08,Microsoft