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Don Box and Data
6 years ago I was in a WebServices DevCon in Boston and Don Box did a presentation about data, where he started playing with SQL and doing things like 'insert into people select * from products'. As People/Products had the same schema (Id/Name), it worked fine (I'm not sure if that was the actual example, but it was something like that). The object-oriented-strongly-typed heads in the audience were nodding saying that he was doing something 'bad'.
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Describing Intentions
Everyone in Microsoft is talking about writing declaratively and letting the user express the intention and not the steps required to perform the task.
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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.