I am back as most of PDC attendees are. It was exciting to be able to attend PDC in LA. I was not to thrilled about downtown LA, but I was in good company and had lots of opportunities to enjoy myself in the evening like Universal Studios, Lakers game at Staple Center and some local bars. As for PDC is was just awesome to witness announcement of Azure, seeing OSLO in action, watching session about .NET Services, Restful WCF and Dublin. Here is an overview of session I attended and its related video’s that can be watched online.
| Day | Session | Speaker | Video |
| Sunday | Pre-conference: Working with WCF | Juval Lowy & Ron Jacobs | None |
| Monday | Keynote | Ray Ozzie & Rob Muglia | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN01/ |
| Monday | A lap around the cloud part 1 | Manuvir Das | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES16/ |
| Monday | Dublin & .NET Services | Jacob Avital | Download High Quality WMV |
| Monday | The Future of C# | Anders Hejlsberg | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/ |
| Monday | A lap around the cloud part 2 | John Shewchuk & Dennis Pilarinos | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB01/ |
| Monday | Developing and deploying your first cloud service | Steve Marx | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES01/ |
| Tuesday | Keynote | Ray Ozzie & Scott Guthrie | Download High Quality WMV |
| Tuesday | Keynote | Don Box & Chris Anderson | Download High Quality WMV |
| Tuesday | WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale | Nicholas Allen | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL38/ |
| Tuesday | A lap around OSLO | Douglas Purdy & Vijaye Raji | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL23/ |
| Tuesday | OSLO The Language | Don Box & David Langworthy | Download High Quality WMV |
| Tuesday | Architecting services for the cloud | Yousef Khalidi | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB01/ |
| Wednesday | Keynote | Rick Rashid | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN04/ |
| Wednesday | .NET Services: Connectivity | Clemens Vasters | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB38/ |
| Wednesday | .NET Services: Logging | Mark Gilbert & Steve Garrity | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB39/ |
| Wednesday | OSLO: Repository and Models | Chris Sells & Martin Gudgin | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB01/ |
| Wednesday | Architecting without big design up front | Peter Provost | Download High Quality WMV |
| Thursday | WCF: Developing RESTful Services | Steve Maine & Robert Bagby | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL35/ |
| Thursday | .NET Services: Messaging Services | Clemens Vasters | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB38/ |
| Thursday | Cloud Computing: Programming in the Cloud | Stefan Schackow & Daniel Wang | Download High Quality Video |
| Thursday | .NET Services: Orchestrating Services | Moustafa Ahmed | http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB27/ |
It has been fun all these technical session’s, demo’s, code and interaction with other attendees (mostly Dutch). You can check out blogs from Edward Bakker, Rutger de Vries, Robert Jan van Holland, Dennis van der Stelt, Michel Heijman, Wouter Crooy, Alex Thissen and Paul Gielens. Other session video’s can be found at channel 9 PDC. Hope to be there again in 2009.
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