Andres Aguiar's Weblog
Just My Code
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Models and Oslo
Oslo was the most interesting technology I've seen at the PDC by far, and the Quadrant session was really amazing. If you did not see it yet, go and watch it. They had Quadrant run in the Microsoft Surface in the Expo area, and being able to explore a model using Surface is very powerful.
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Oslo
I was going to write a large post on Oslo, until I found this one. I still did not play enough with it yet to add value to what Fowler said.
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PDC Day 2 - A much better Keynote
The first genuine, spontaneous, unanimous round of applause after a Keynote demo happened today when they shown the Live Mesh stuff. Two 'friends' were looking at the same picture, one edited it, and it was immediately changed in the other one's machine.
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Infragistics goes to Hollywood
Infragistics sponsored the Expo-Hall Reception yesterday night, and all the Infragistics guys went dressed as movie characters or movie stars.
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PC27: Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code
I attended this session as I'm working in both platforms right now, and expected to learn something.
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C# 4.0
I was in Anders Helsberg the Future of C# presentation (actually, in the overflow room).
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Clouds
Amazon Cloud offering provides, in beta, a Windows VM and a way to run SQL Server.
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Visual Studio Tools for Database Professionals - Rename Refactoring Take II
In January 2007 I complained about the support for renaming fields in VS Tools for DB Professionals.
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Synch Framework & Multi-Tier applications
I've used ADO.NET synchronization framework in an internal project and had to give a presentation about it in the local Visual Studio 2008 Launch.
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Patterns and Practices Summit Recap
I spent a fun week in Redmond, in the Patterns and Practices Summit.