PDC Day 1: It's so big
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: PDC 2005
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.
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:09 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:48 PM
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.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:55 PM
BTW, I just found some info about Microsoft Gadgets! Is Stardock in on that?
Link