Talks I want to see @ PDC

Don Box's Spoutlet

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In looking at the agenda for the event, here are some talks I'd really love to crash:

  1. Oslo: Building Textual DSLs - lots of geek porn appeal, and if internal usage is any indication, a highly addictive technology. I predict this will be the World of Warcraft of 2009.
  2. Intro to F# - I spent a month living in F# early this year and had a great time. I'm dying to hear how Luca has made the leap from OO to functional programming.
  3. ASP.NET and jQuery - OK, so the title on the details page doesn't match, but if this is a session on how MS is going to integrate jQuery into the arsenal of .NET devs, I want to hear it.
  4. The Raymond Chen talk - Despite being a former columnist for MSDN Magazine (hi Joel), I like unmanaged code too and would love to see what we're doing in the land of HWNDs.
  5. Steve Marx codes - If you want us to run your code in our cloud, go see this talk. Period.
  6. Vasters on messaging services - If you want to run your code at your place but want us to help wire it up to the rest of the world, go see this talk. Period.
  7. Dharma - to hear Dharma talk about his work is always refreshing, and the stuff he's been doing is pretty compelling.
  8. The New XAML Stack - We're getting a XAML stack in .NET 4.0 that spans all of our technologies. No more XOML!
  9. The UAC talk - OK, call me selfish, but I really want everyone to write apps that work for standard user accounts. Nothing would please me more than if we had to repeat this talk 3 times due to overflow problems in the room.
  10. Miguel in blue - no longer relegated to ad hoc hallway presentations or using nearby hotel rooms, Miguel is donning a standard issue blue Microsoft speaker shirt, applying the Silverfox powerpoint template, upgrading his laptop to Windows 7, and giving a sanctioned PDC talk that even Richard Klees would approve of.  OK, so I'm sure one or two of those statements isn't true, but I need to see it with my own eyes.

 


Posted Oct 08 2008, 01:17 AM by don-box
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on 10-10-2008 3:52 AM

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