October 2003 - Posts
Ok, last session for the day. P2P is obviously going to play a bigger part in next-generation applications. So, what's Indigo gonna do to make building these applications easier? Find out here.
Scoble tells me a few bloggers are going to get together at 8p
Let's meet tonight at the Hollywood grill inside of Universal Studios (#19 on the map, close to the entrance) http://www.pazsaz.com/unimap.html.
I will certainly try to make it
[Brad Abrams]
I'll be there!
So, this is the session where we find out what's new in the System.Xml namespace for the Whidbey version of the .NET Framework. I'm taking notes over here.
This will be my fourth Indigo session. I'm not sure what to expect honestly and I haven't looked at the slides, but I'm sure it will be interesting no matter what. The usual coverage is available here.
My first session of the day. I'm looking forward to seeing what decisions were made as far as the base schema Longhorn will ship with as well as just how extensible it really is. You can check out my session notes by
clicking here. We're running about 15 minutes late today because the keynote (which I didn't attend) is running long.
So here we are again. Each day more exciting than the next. I've actually altered my schedule for today based on the previous days' experiences. I was planning on attending more Avalon sessions when I originally set up the schedule, but after seeing it I realized no longer needed to make those sessions a priority. Everything I need to know about Avalon I can learn from the online reference. I already understand the major facets of the technology having spent the past five or so years working with DHTML, CSS and even dabbling in SVG. The people who really need to attend those sessions are the people who were in denial about needing to learn (X)HTML and clung tightly to their HWNDs.
So, with that out of the way, what have I decided to fill those session slots with? Well right now I'm sitting here preparing for my second taste of WinFS. I was simply blown away when I saw it yesterday. Not because it was revolutionary, because if you've done any O/R mapping work then you're familiar with it, but because they actually did it. It's there. It's native in Windows. It's not just a layer on top of a SQLServer database.
Ok, today was awesome.
Indigo is... exactly what I need^H^H^H^H^H^H anyone who's programming service oriented system needs. I can't even put it into words how happy I was as the serialization session progressed. By the end of the session a great weight was lifted off my shoulders. Oh man, when Doug explained that the serialization architecture is now one model and that that model is the XML Information set... well... let's just say that I'm still smiling.
WinFS is everything I expected. It model is very similar to O/R mapping layers today. I've designed two versions of an O/R mapping layer and the latest version, which is .NET, bares a striking resemblence to WinFS. The reason I'm so happy about that is because now I can go back to my development team next Monday and spend about ten minutes explaining the analogies between the two and they'll basically know how to program WinFS. Awesome.
Now, back to reality. The “good” Indigo stuff really isn't coming until Longhorn. Although there are some improvements coming in the Whidbey bits. WinFS? Well there's no doubt we're waiting 'til Longhorn for that. So the negative perspective that some people are taking is: “I love to see this stuff, but it's useless because I can't use it for the next three years.“ To some extent, I feel the same way, but then I realize something: We, the developers, have a real opportunity here. We're seeing the APIs in their toddler stages. We still have a real opportunity to shape the outcome of this stuff. If we start playing with the bits and come up with constructive criticism (whining isn't gonna help) I know Microsoft will listen. It's either that or forget what we've seen this week and wait until 2006 and potentially be stuck with ugly, difficult, unintuitive designs.
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Well, the room is already packed. It's even smaller than the Part 1 room. I think they under estimated the interest in Indigo. Every single one of these would have been better off in the 501-503 session room (which is huge).
Anyway, I'll be covering this session right here.
This should be a good session. It's packed to capacity again. Check out full coverage
right here.
Ok, let's hope this session goes a little better than the last. You'll find my coverage here.
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