PDC Day 1: It's so big

It's so big.  That's my first impression.  And I know so little.  There's nothing like a developer's conference to make a developer realize how little they know. Holy cow.

So far, the two things I'm most excited by are Indigo and Avalon.  Indigo looks like it'll make working with databases and other applications much less painful. But my knowledge on C# is pretty scampy, I've been doing C++ for so long and I've not beein inclined to do much with C# because I don't like having to require users download 20+ megs in libraries.

But as I listend to the keynotes, it become pretty obvious how I only have a surface knowledge on all these things.  So I've loaded up on some pretty cool sounding sessions:

11:45am FUNL02: WinFX/Win32 SDKs ie7
1:00pm PRS223: Making good SW writing a dynamic compiler
2:45pm TLN303: Mondad monad
4:15pm FUN405: Multithreading dat307: exploiting new capabilities
14-Sep
11am PRS205: Bulding Customizeable apps in .NET PRS317: Avalong Overview
1:45pm PRS315: Avalon Overview
3:15pm DAT310: WinFS
5:00pm PRS416: Direct3D and real-time apps
15-Sep
10:00am FUN412: Five things every Win32 dev should know
11:30am DAT317: Windows Sync Center TLN213: Building Avalon Interfaces
2:15pm DAT320: Building RSS enabled apps

So we'll see how it turns out. Stay tuned.

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Reply #1 Top
Sounds pretty cool, Brad. Makes me wish I was there. Thanks for sharing.

BTW, I just found some info about Microsoft Gadgets! Is Stardock in on that?

Link
Reply #2 Top
Seems like there's already a whole load of zealots (aka idiots) flaming Microsoft in the comments section at the site you gave MountainDragon.
Reply #3 Top
Wow! There were no comments two hours ago when I first looked.

The idiots do have some valid points about the lack of innovation with Microsoft, as pointed out in this editorial from the latest PC World: Link

I do find the Apple zealots very hard to take.