ישנם מספר סיבות שאני כותב פוסט זה רק עכשיו, העיקרית שבהם שאני רוצה לנסות לסכם אותה בצורה רציונאלית ולא רק כרגש לאחר הכנס. בפוסט זה אנסה לפרוס את זוויות הראיה שחשובות לי גם בתור אדם וגם בתור איש מקצוע. בכל מקרה זו כמובן התייחסותי האישית ואל תשכחו שזה לי ה PDC הראשון.   התרשמות כללית כבר בישראל ניכר היה שהמיתון נמצא חזק בכנס, אירוע הערב המסורתי בוטל, אבל זה הפך למוחשי כאשר הכנס התחיל. אומנם המקום הוא אותו מקום LACC מרכז הכנסים של LA. והמארגנת היא MS הגדולה ואפילו המשתתפים קיבלו Tablet אבל כל השאר...

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...

Only half-a-day using my new Acer tablet pc which we got in PDC. It is ON since noon, without recharging the battery, and only half of it is gone… It's so fun and easy to work with, that I can't remember why I ever used a "normal" laptop before! Will it make me give up my "old" laptop? I don't think so. It's not strong enough for writing code. But, it IS strong enough for everything else. This is not a net book but rather quite a nice machine in a small package...

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...

PDC09 Here We Come Tomorrow is the big day, PDC 2009 officially begin and we 20 people from Sela are already in the heat of things for the last couple of week. Tomorrow morning we all going to sit in the first keynote from Ray Ozzie & Bob Muglia at 8:30am PST (Which means 6:30pm for the people in Israel). This keynote is going to be stream live using IIS7 and Silverlight and based on previous experience with Microsoft the bandwidth will be enough. So make sure you have Silverlight installed on...

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...

טוב, אז לא ארבע ורק שלוש בבוקר אבל אני ב Los Angeles סוף סוף במלון ומתכוון ללכת לישון אחרי 25 שעות בדרכים. אז למה 25 שעות ?, כי ביום שלישי מתחיל PDC2009 ואני ועוד כ-20 מאנשי Sela הולכים להשתתף בו. עדכונים נוספים בהמשך… יהודית רביץ בביצוע חי

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,...

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