Transit strike in LA - since public transport has come to a standstill, no there are no leaves on the tracks , cabs are probably more problematic to get aswell.

A nice printable 10 day forecast for LA. Packing my shorts....

Jeff Sandquist send me an awesome blogging the PDC shirt.

Link to pictures of the 'blogging the PDC" shirt, since I don't have a digital camera.

Jeffrey McManus created order from chaos. If only someone would do the same with all other sessions and tracks.

I just realised it would be cool to have a program, which would help me maintain my PDC agenda, but then it occured to me there is no webservice for quering the sessionlist so this may prove to be kinda hard.

The Indigo team has created an email address to send all questions for the Indigo Panel at last day of the PDC.

From Don Box's Spoutlet:

Yasser set up an email alias to collect Indigo questions starting today. The email address is indipnl@microsoft.com - feel free to fire off those burning questions and we'll do our best to answer them on the 30th.

 

In anticipation of the obvious two questions, here are their answers:

 

Q: Will you make the answers available to people who can't make it to PDC?

A: Yes - we'll post the Q&A somewhere conspicuous soon after PDC (I'll blog the exact URL once it goes live).

 

Q: Why are you relying on this crufty email-based technology for collecting comments?

A: We want questions from people who wouldn't know a web service if it kissed them on the lips. Asking people to consume WSDL to tell us they think consuming WSDL is too hard seems rather odd.

Since I'm probably going to change my mind a million times between now and October 27, here's a preliminary agenda for the sessions I plan to attend at the PDC. I'm going to try to write an "elevator pitch" for each of them afterwards, but I can't make any promises.

Monday, October 27, 2003
	8:30 AM	11:45 AM	Bill Gate's and Jim Allchn's Keynote
	11:45 AM	1:30 PM	Lunch
	12:15 PM	1:00 PM	.NET Framework: Tips and Tricks for Building Managed Components
	1:30 PM	2:45 PM	Visual Studio "Whidbey": New IDE Features for XML and Data Access
	3:00 PM	4:15 PM	Programming SQL Server "Yukon" Using Managed Code: Building Store Procedures, Functions and User-Defined Types
	4:45 PM	6:00 PM	Introducing MSBuild: The Universal Build Engine for Visual Studio "Whidbey" and "Longhorn"
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
	8:30 AM	9:30 AM	Eric Rudder's General Session
	10:00 AM	11:00 AM	Gordon Mangione's General Session
	11:00 AM	12:30 PM	Lunch
	11:30 AM	12:15 PM	Designing Mobile Applications: Programming to "Longhorn" Data Synchronization
	12:30 PM	1:45 PM	“Indigo”: Building Services (Part 1): The Fundamentals
	2:00 PM	3:15 PM	“Indigo”: Building Services (Part 2): Secure, Reliable, Transacted Services
	3:45 PM	5:00 PM	The Future of Network Applications: Make Your Software Cooler and Your Life Easier Using the Next-Generation of Microsoft Networking Technologies
	5:15 PM	6:30 PM	"Indigo": Using XSD, CLR Types, and Serialization in Web Services
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
	8:30 AM	9:30 AM	Rick Rashid's General Session
	10:00 AM	11:15 AM	ASP.NET: Programming with the Data Controls in ASP.NET "Whidbey" (Part 1)
	11:30 AM	12:45 PM	ASP.NET: Programming with the Data Controls in ASP.NET "Whidbey" (Part 2)
	12:45 PM	2:00 PM	Lunch
	1:00 PM	1:45 PM	CLR: Tips and Tricks for Faster Managed Code: How To and What's New
	2:00 PM	3:15 PM	.NET Framework: What's New in System.Xml for "Whidbey"
	3:30 PM	4:45 PM	ASP.NET: Building Server Controls for ASP.NET "Whidbey" (Part 1)
	5:00 PM	6:15 PM	ASP.NET: Building Server Controls for ASP.NET "Whidbey" (Part 2)
	7:30 PM	11:30 PM	Party
Thursday, October 30, 2003
	8:30 AM	9:45 AM	No Session Selected.
	8:30 AM	10:00 AM	Real World Innovation: From Idea to Product
	8:30 AM	12:00 PM	No Session Selected.
	10:30 AM	11:45 AM	No Session Selected.
	10:30 AM	12:00 PM	“Indigo:” What’s Next for Connected Apps and Web Services
	11:45 AM	1:30 PM	Lunch
	12:00 PM	1:30 PM	Lunch
	12:15 PM	1:30 PM	No Session Selected.
	1:45 PM	3:00 PM	No Session Selected.
	1:45 PM	3:15 PM	Architecture Panel: What is Service-Oriented Analysis and Design

Thanks Stef for showing the feature.

"WinFS"- The digital aid meets meta data. Store all your "stuff" and find it seemlessly with hundreds of rules.

"Indigo" - SOAP 1.2 + WS-*. The future of distributed computing

"Avalon" - Cool UI graphics, no Windows message pump and a declarative programming model.

"Yukon" - SQL Server next with the beauty of an XML data type to store all those XML documents.

"Whidbey" - VS.NET next with some great innovations in the XML programming model.

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After going through the PDC schedule and see what sessions are in which time slots, I realized, I need to get my cloning business going full speed ahead. There are just to many cool sessions happening at once. Thankfully some sessions are repeated, but some aren't.

I hope Rory is willing to swap some notes.

I just noticed time slots have been added to the pdc sessions, so it's time I started planning the What, where and when.