I'm off to Redmond
I’m heading to Redmond this weekend for the "Imagine Cup." The Imagine Cup is a programming contest for college students. There are 8 teams going to Redmond that have created Web Services that are "Economically viable or socially responsible" (or something like that), basically any service seems to fit the rules. I will be competing against the 7 other teams for two chances to go to TechEd in Spain. Winners in Spain will be announced at the first keynote of TechEd.
I’ll be getting into Seattle a little early on Friday. Anyone have recommendations for tourist-type things to do in Seattle before dinner? We are having dinner with some people from Microsoft. I don’t know who, but I wish I could make requests.
My application allows developers to share class libraries and code snippets with other developers from within Visual Studio .NET. I’ve created multiple Web Services that pull from SQL Server 2000, an ASP.NET page to browse everything and add new components and snippets, and two VS.NET addins. One addin is for finding and downloading components, and the other is a snippet manager. The snippet manager is really slick. You can “subscribe” to snippets on the web page and then you can access them on multiple computers. You can also drag some code onto the snippet manager and upload it to the service. I also added an RSS feed for recently updated components and snippets tonight.
Hopefully the application is on par with the other applications, I don’t know what to expect. If I have Ethernet in the hotel I should be blogging. If not, expect an update and pictures on Sunday night or Monday. It would be nice to go to TechEd... Now if I could only find a way to win a trip to the PDC in October.