PDC05

Watch 500 hours of PDC05 videos free

Serge Baranovsky — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:40:00 GMT

As found via Scoble Microsoft just released videos of Microsoft's recent developer conference (PDC05). These will be online only for six months :

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/

(Update: This link requires Internet Explorer)

The session search on the page sucks - very confusing and basically unusable unless you have a list of the sessions handy.

Here is the trick - search sessions here

http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx

I'm still pissed that I have never received the PDC03 DVD set I paid $199 for - none of my emails were responded (in two years) and they couldn't tell me anything while on PDC05 - there was obviously a different team this year :( Not that I need that DVD set two years later :)

But, anyway, it's great to see MS provide this year videos for free!

PDC05 is filling up quickly

Serge Baranovsky — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:09:00 GMT

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!

Where will you be sitting for the PDC Keynotes?

Serge Baranovsky — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:50:00 GMT

10 comfortable reclining chairs will be located front row center in the PDC05 keynote room. Ten lucky attendees will be picked randomly.

More - http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2005/08/04/447911.aspx

Let's see if I get one of the prime sits :) Most likely I'll be sitting somewhere in the back as I'm not a morning person to show up early and reserve good spot...

Registered for PDC05

Serge Baranovsky — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:16:00 GMT

My schedule allows me to go only to one conference this year. Although it was tempting to sign up for VS 2005 launch at DevConnections but PDC05 is still a better choice. (Thanks to Doug Seven for helping to make up my mind)

So, I went ahead and registered for PDC05 today. It is a much bigger event and is typically focused on future technology.

One of the sessions I will absolutely attend is Paul Vick's "Visual Basic: Future Directions in Language Innovations" - I'm very excited to be among the first to hear about the new (post VB2005) version of VB!

BTW, early bird discount for PDC05 was extended through July 30th and I saved some money, so can you :)

So, if you will be there and want to meet, drop me a note via email or my contact form if we haven't met.

And I'm off to book my airfare on Expedia :)