Keeping up with Microsoft.
My talk on Indigo apparently went well for the audience and one of my fellow RDs even said that he learned more about Indigo in my talk than at the PDC (that's because I consolidated the PDC slides and therefore have it "all at once"), but personally I was a bit unhappy with it. Didn't flow right. Two slides too much, one slide missing (I need to explain "Dialogs"). This will be fixed for the next stop in Oslo on Monday
If Clemens is improving his presentation, by the time he gets to Lisbon, it probably has surpassed perfection itself.
This is the third time i will get to seem Clemens live. The first in Barcelona's MS Teched 2002, where he presented Newtelligence Soap Extensions and last year in the EMEA Architects tour. He totally rocks, but i digress, all this to say that i don't care that much with avalon (mental note, next time i meet a MS evangelist, try not to provoque him by saying that avalon is a XUL copy [1] ) nor longhorn, nor winfs. For now that is. :-)
With the speed Microsoft is spitting Patterns & patterns books, and data application blocks into the collective we can hardly keep up (ok, ok i can't keep up. Sometimes i wished MS freezed) with the information, how will i micro care what will be released five years from now (the information that reaches my via RSS is quite enough), if with the current MS pace is issuing information, (for me) the present is allways yesterday (with luck). :-)
But not with indigo, i await indigo with great anticipation, despite all the SOA hype i would like in the future to work with SOA architectures.
So i can't wait for Longhorn developer preview and Clemens presentation. Actually i'm bit divided here, because if on the 9 th February i can't go to the Lisbon Longhorn Preview it's because we got a new gig we are fighting for. (getting the gig will also mean no sky trip in march oh well). Oh well i guess it's a win win situation.
[1] [Update] When i said that avalon is a copy of XUL i was just trolling or flamebaiting, since i neither have details on avalon (saw one or two samples of XAML, nor i have studied XUL on detail). But this guy goes even further. quote ( Windows Longhorn is a demonstrably powerful and ambitious concept, but the architectural principles are hardly new. From 10,000 feet, Mozilla's architecture looks remarkably similar.)
Freedom to innovate i guess (there i go again....)
[Update] Frans Bouma said everything i should have said and haven't in .Net Reality Check :-)
[Update] This will make easier to follow the Application Blocks and Patterns and practices Microsoft is going to publish in the in near term.