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Well, the second day of the PDC is now over with only one more day to go. I can really start to feel the end… So what have we had today? Silverlight 4 announcement , several technical sessions, a free laptop and at the end – Geek Fest. Geek Fest was basically a party Microsoft arranged instead of the traditional big PDC party which was probably canceled due to budget limitations. This festival was comprised mostly of a lot of games spread across the conference hall, massage tables, good music and...
As was announced during the PDC keynote , all PDC attendees received a free PDC Convertible Tablet Laptop with an accompanying license for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Of course, in order to get the laptop you had to stand in a long line, but fortunately the representatives at distribution desk worked very efficiently and the line moved pretty quickly. This laptop is an Acer Inspire 1420P which is an 11.6” Multi-Touch machine, and it looks like a very nice one. I hope I’ll have some time to try it...
Well, it’s almost 2:00 AM here in Los-Angeles, and the first day of the PDC is almost over. It was quite a busy day, constantly running from one side of the convention center to the other in order to get to sessions in time, posting blog posts as soon as possible after a session is over, going through the Sela booth to help and trying to get something to eat in between. All in all – I had a good time today. By the way, if you are in the PDC drop by the Sela booth, you have a chance to win a 25.5...
As most of you probably know, Microsoft's PDC 2009 is starting tomorrow and I'm already here in Los-Angeles together with a large expedition of about 20 experts from Sela Group . Today we had some fun at Los-Angeles' Six-Flags Magic Mountain rollercoaster park (highly recommended), but the real fun starts tomorrow at the PDC pre-conference workshops. As for my own schedule, tomorrow I’ll attend the “ Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp ” and during the conference itself I intend to focus on...
Hi, my name is Eran Stiller. No, I am not related to Ben Stiller or Jerry Stiller , although I’m quite used to people asking... I am a senior software consultant at Sela Group , consulting on software challenges regarding the development, design and architecture of both .NET and native Win32 applications. My interests include a wide array of technologies which constantly change over time as I learn newer ones. Currently my main focus lies on server side technologies such as WCF, WF, WF Services,...