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Future Vision - Tivo For Blogging
The Bloggers Bof Session has already been heavily covered, but what I think what is missing is all the cool sub-topics that happened beneath the RSS versus Atom discussion. Jason Nadal documented the discussion on the need for standarization of meta-data so that aggregation can get smarter, and is a bit of a complex discussion, where one can get lost. But what we are really talking about is building a Tivo-like system for Blogging. That will require 2 major updates to the blogging world, a standard metadata for describing the categorization of blog content, and smart clients that can use the metadata. Tivo has an advantage over blogging because they already have an industry that categorizes their data. But I think with a little help we can get this done it a reasonable timeframe.
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A Sense Of Community
I just want to say that there is a real sense of community among the bloggers at the PDC. It is somewhere between a community and a family. I've talked with so many bloggers and readers of blogs, and feel like these are people I graduated high school with, and haven't seen for 10 years. There are great conversations going on, and because we know where a lot of us are coming from, the ramp up time to a productive conversation is seconds instead of hours. A lot of us are suffering from info overload, not due to the sessions, but from the discussions between the sessions. If you are missing out on this, or are really digging it at the PDC, I'd highly recommend hitting the next Sells-a-thon (aka XMLDevCon).
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Longhorn Eats, Sleeps and Breathes Declarative Programming
Anyone that has not learned declarative programming definitely need to learn this stuff soon. It is not an easy jump to make from the procedural programming. XSLT is a great language to learn to help move to declarative programming, but so are things like LISP and SMIL. Longhorn uses declarative programming all over the platform. But don’t worry you can still use procedural programming. And the cool thing, either way you code, it renders down to the same bits.
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Adobe After Effects Can Produce XAML
Adobe had a really cool demo in the General Session on how to produce XAML with an After Effects plugin. Why is this cool. Because a graphics artist can develop using their tools, and the coder can code the event handlers. Division of labor, and easy to put the pieces back together. Very Very cool. I’ve been working on stuff like this with SVG for a couple years, but it was a tuff hack at best. This is so much cleaner. I’ve been working with the guys from Adobe on Illustrator and SVG, and have been pushing those teams of this stuff, but never knew there were others within Adobe that were doing the same.
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Sunday Update
Saturday night was a blast. Got to hang with ScottW, Jason Nadal, Jason Beres, Jeff Julian and others. Got to meet a ton of people. The Wilshire is the place to hang afterhours. Sunday is being spent hooking up with others at Commnet. BOF sessions tonight. I'll fill you in as I can.
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PDC – Monday Night Blogger Outing (Now Updated)
For those of you that have been asking, yes the Monday night blogger outing is still on. There is no official backing or sponsors, so it is up to us for transportation to and from the Viper Room.
What I’m suggesting is that people meet at their hotel lobbies at 10:00PM and grab a cab to the Viper Room. This way you will know who to share a cab with on the return trip. If you are staying at a non-PDC hotel, or just want to travel in a bigger group, you can meet up with those of us staying at the Wilshire Grand at 10:00PM. -
PDC Longhorn Build - System Requirements
Does anyone know what the system requirements are for the PDC build of Longhorn? I have a dual PII workstation that I was going to use as my Longhorn machine, but I don't know if dual processors will be supported with this build of Longhorn. BTW, this dual processor machine, although it uses PIIs, really rocks with WinXP, so I don't think horsepower will be an issue, but dual processors might be.
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PDC Travel Tips
I have a couple tips for those of you going to the PDC:
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Thanks For The Shirts
I'd just like to send a shout out to Jeff Sandquist for the great PDC blogging shirt, and to John Daus of Microsoft's East Region Developer Evangelism Team for the MSDN “Crew” t-shirt.
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PDC Session Highlight Of The Day #4
Please remember, I’m picking sessions that, in my opinion, warrant some more exposure. There are lots of other sessions that I really like, but since I’ve seen them discussed on other blogs, I purposely avoided talking about them. If I don’t mention your favorite session, it doesn’t mean I don’t like it, I’m just trying to spread the love.
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Weblogging Article in Discover Magazine
I bought the November 2003 issue of Discover magazine (I love the Vital Signs column) and while flipping thru the magazine I came across an article on Weblogs: Emerging Techology - How the Web Edits News. It prettty much focuses on concept of the “Daily Me” aspects of blogging and news, and thankfully does not mention the “secret society” slant given by some that don't truely understand blogging. Overall I was really surprised the a notable science magazine dedicated some print to our world. Now if the scientists of the world can take a page from us techies and use blogging to help them work together, then we will all be bettter off for it.
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Avalon Versus SVG-RCC
Alright, I just I’ve been quite for far too long, and I feel like trying to stir up some googlejuice, and this is just the topic to do.
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PDC Session Highlight Of The Day #3
The PDC session highlight for today is a real oddball for the PDC:
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PDC Session Highlight Of The Day #2
The PDC session highlight for today is:
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PDC Session Highlight Of The Day #1
I know that I haven’t been blogging much lately, but it isn’t for a lack of wanting to blog. I’m trying to keep all my entries on the weblogs.asp.net related to .Net, and I’m also trying to remove the “fluff” entries, and only blog when I think it is of some value.
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Extending Enums - The Presentation
At the October NJMSDEV meeting (that’s Thursday night 10/2), I’ll be presenting my Fun With Attributes – Extending Enums session. For those of you that can’t make the meeting in NJ, or those of you that want to be prepared for the meeting, here’s the link to the presentation. I want to thank my coworker Rich (www.metaverse.cc) and Steve Maine for all their help and inspiration. Extending enums with attributes is a great technique for creating a bunch of static objects, whether it be data access layer parameters or object representations of simple code tables.
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