Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

OK - I am not really a Rich-Client bigot and these are not really confessions.

Yes, it is that time of year again (and I say that most happily!) to go out to San Francisco to speak at the VSLive Conference.  This year I am focussing on real-world use of DataSets, both with VS 2005 and VS 2008.  But don't attend just for that - there are many other great sessions and speakers that you will really enjoy and learn from.

Note that for both positions:

Earlier this month, at our monthly meeting, the Israel Visual Basic User Group celebrated its tenth (10th) birthday !

Following in the footsteps of last year's event, Microsoft Israel is repeating the Microsoft Developer Academt event (tomorrow, November 27, 2007).  This full-day event offers 6 parallel tracks of presentations and panel disucssions, across 5 time slots.  Lots of of real-world and new technology sessions for the MS developer to choose from.  More information and links can be found here.

I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event.  I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation

Back in February I blogged about some of my thoughts on the experimental languages Microsoft Research was playing around with.
Today, Soma announced the formation of a team to move one of those languages, F#, from the realm of research to the realm of practitioners.