PDC - Day 1 (Monday)
Well I finally made to PDC after spending 8 hours in the SEATAC airport. I got into LA at
So… day one at PDC. I cannot believe how large PDC is this year! It's seems like every professional developer in the world has come to see Microsoft latest tools and technology. Some sessions were so popular, it was standing room only for the monitor in the hall way!
I got a front row seat for Bill Gates keynote speech. As always, his presentation / demos went off without a hitch. I really enjoyed Jim Allchin's talk.
In one of the demos, Don Box and Chris Anderson had Jim write some code. At one point, Jim opened the file that Don had been typing lots of code into and it was blank! Luckily, Jim had open the wrong file. Once he realized his mistake, he opened up the correct file and the code was there. Both Don and Chris both let out a big sigh of release. Very funny! ;-)
Another funny point in the presentation was when Don was coding and a bug (moth?) flew out of the machine he was typing on. Don looks up at the moth flying away and says “look, there is the first Longhorn bug!”. LOL! (You had to be there to understand).
Overall, I'm very impressed with Longhorn and all of the tools and technologies Microsoft will be rolling out in the next few months / years. Longhorn's Avalon will allow us to build some really cool UI. Plus it's WinFS storage system will allow us to organize and search very diverse information. I'm looking forward to install the Longhorn preview. ;-)