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Panel: Real World Innovation: From Idea to Product
I just attended a session on Real World Innovation – from Idea to Product. This panel session, comprised of Phil Fawcett (moderator), John Lefor, Lili Cheng, John Breese, Jeff Erwin, Katie Drucker, and Renee Labran – focused on how new ideas are integrated into Microsoft both internally and externally in products and additional offerings. I have a special interest in this particular session, so I jumped on it when Steven Forte asked me to cover it.
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BOF for Smart Clients
Well, there were 6 or 7 RD panelists (with more RD’s in the audience) – but only about 25-30 attendees. Not bad if you consider the free beer available during ask the experts and the others who skipped out to go to the Lakers game right next door). Tim started the session with one question – “What is a smart client.” The esteemed Mr. Hollis gave the first answer: “A client that stays out of my way and lets me get my work done”. We then discussed this very question for the remainder of the time. Very fun though – lots of people with lots of opinions and experiences. I think that this session truly represented a good BOF session – very interactive, very open, and most of all, very fun. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow or the next day.
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I was way wrong on my take of Monday's key note...
Turns out I was way wrong on my take of Monday’s key note. The keynote was very entertaining and it went sooo smoothly (besides looking like all the code was nuked at that one point) that I felt it was scripted. Apparently it just wasn’t.
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BOF on Blogging...
Ok… are all BOF’s getting as hostile as this one? Do all sessions have people yelling? Um, I sure hope not, since I’m supposed to help out tomorrow night.
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My first post of the PDC...
This is my first post at the PDC – not my fault. The communication network provided at the LA Convention Center didn’t work until late this afternoon. Nothing – zippo. I was grumpy. Soo much to say, especially after today’s Key Note.
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Gates Kicks it off at the PDC
Always like hearing Bill talk – don’t know why though. Actually, it will be Bill Gates and Jim Allchin doing the key note. Should be good.
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Went Exploring La La Land...
Was fun…
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Made it to LA - Ready to Connect ....
I made it to LA – just after 4:30pm. Smoke everywhere – you can even taste it. I’m at the Hyatt downtown… I asked for DSL…well, that’s $20 bucks a day extra… then to enable it… another $7 bucks a day. Yikes… lucky I own the company because I would never approve these types of expenses
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WOW - Architecting Smart Client Applications is gonna be amazing
I volunteered to help out my RD SoCal buddy (who has a special place in his heart for Canadians) Tim Huckaby for the Architecting Smart Client Applications BOF session at the PDC… There are going to be a whack of other RD’s helping out as well… some big names I might add. We’re gonna rock that session…!! Check out who else will be there: Stephen Forte, Ingo Rammer (Ingo ROCKS!!!), Tim Landgrave, Joe Homnick, Greg Frankenfield, Edgar Sánchez, Scott Stanfield, Billy Hollis, Peter Himschoot, Patrick Hynds, - and me. --- and then there’s Tim.
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Testing a Post from NewsGator..
Please ignore.
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How can I post to weblogs.asp.net from NewsGator?
Is there a special post add-in that will work? Anyone?
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Exchange Migration Tools Article Update...
I wrote an article a couple of months back called Move With Exchange Migration Utilities. I was contacted by the Exchange Migration Product manager from Microsoft who indicated that I could have also referenced tools located on the Exchange CD or available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/updates contacted (specifically Importer for Lotus cc:Mail archives, Mailbox Merge Wizard, and for the case of moving from 5.5 to E2003, the Exchange Deployment Tools.
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PDC Panels
I'm pumped about being able to cover these sessions as an RD (thanks to Stephen Forte). I'll be blogging (stay tuned...) and by taking lots of pictures.
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Web Service Load Testing Tools...
In the past, I've used Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool - I think they called it Homer before. Now, I'm using ACT (Application Center Test) to perform load/response testing for my web services. Looking at the app, it seems like I have less options available to me (although really cool results gathering and display options) for the execution of the tests. For example, I couldn't find a way to throttle the tests through the GUI.
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PDC's DVD's
I really hope that the PDC' DVD set will be better quality than the ones from TechEd.... the demo video's are way too blurry to be any good.
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Another product review...
.. on ScriptLogic
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VB.NET Resource Kit...
Looks like I should dedicate some time at the next Winnipeg.NET Users Group to discuss this one....