With over 4 weeks to go I tell for sure this year PDC is going to be sold out very soon. Microsoft has reached their PDC registration goal and already pulled all online advertisement.
Over 7000 developers attended PDC in October 2003 and I will not be surprised if there will be even more this year.
I was impressed by the quality of the PDC sessions back in 2003. And was a little disappointed when reviewed preliminary sessions list couple of months ago. But not anymore!
Today I went to PDC COMMNET to build my conference schedule based on the finalized list of sessions. And, OMG, for all 4 conference days I'm double booked! And I only picked from Tool & Languages track, some Data & Systems and a couple of Fundamentals sessions... I have two time slots I want to attend 4 (!) sessions. It looks like I will have a lot of decisions to make when I get to LA in September.
I have 5 sessions on my list I would never miss. The one on top of the list is Visual Basic: Future Directions in Language Innovation by Paul Vick (the Language Architect of Visual Basic) and Amanda Silver!
If you were thinking about going to PDC05 you better hurry up - it maybe too late in a couple of days!