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PDC Report: Day 4 and Summary
03 November 08 07:48 AM | pavely | with no comments

PDC is over. Getting back to reality…and work. Plenty of work… Now that I’ve recovered somewhat from the Jet lag, my report continues. I started the 4th day (finally no keynote) with “Windows 7: Web services in native code”. A new library installed on Windows 7 (and will be available for Vista as well) allows creating and consuming web services (including using WSE) with native C. I have to say I’m disappointed the API is not C++ or COM, but ugly C. The creation of proxies from WSDL creates very...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, DEV, PDC2008

PDC Report: Day 3
30 October 08 11:07 AM | pavely | with no comments

In my previous report , I forgot to mention one more significant product update: Office. The next version of Office (“Office 14”) will have an online version, complete with the famous Ribbon and all major editing capabilities. In addition, synchronization services will allow nice, seamless sync between an online and offline versions, including the ability to open the same file by multiple users for editing with automatic or manual updates. On with day 3! Today’s keynote was by Rick Rashid, the head...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, .NET, CLR, CLR Explorer, DEV, PDC2008

PDC Report: Day 2
29 October 08 11:48 AM | pavely | 1 comment(s)

The day started with not one, but two keynotes. The first was led by Ray Ozzie , and much like his keynote on day 1, involved a bunch of other people, each one coming up to do their part before Ozzie closes the session. The main topic was Windows 7 . Some new features of the OS were demonstrated, such as improved task bar, automatic discoverability of printers and devices, and of course, the (multi) touch interface. Definitely nice, although still relatively costly hardware. The road map was briefly...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, DEV, PDC2008

PDC Report: Day 1
28 October 08 02:23 AM | pavely | 1 comment(s)

PDC has begun! The keynote was started and ended by Ray Ozzie, with other supporting cast in between. The major thing coming out of the keynote was the cloud services based on Windows Azure (pronounced by most “Ajoor” with a French style J (like “bonjour”), but some other MS guy called it “azoor”). This is the operating system of the cloud, that was designed by two guys, one of which is Dave Cutler, the designer of Windows NT (and previously VMS). Cloud services are built on top of Windows Azure...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, DEV, PDC2008, .NET4

PDC Report Day 0: Pre-conference
26 October 08 09:16 PM | pavely | with no comments

The “real” PDC only starts tomorrow, but today was the pre-conference, meaning it deals with current issues and technologies, as opposed to the PDC itself, which mainly deals with future technologies. Every attendee that signed up for the pre-conference day (an extra $400) had to choose a specific track, although technically you could switch tracks midway and no one would be the wiser. Personally, I enrolled in the “ Advanced Windows Debugging ” track; although I know this stuff pretty well, there...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, Debugging, DEV, PDC2008