the world of squee.sorting through the muck.Who really runs PDC The food police.- October 28, 2003 PDC. Realized today who really runs the show at the PDC. The food cops. When you enter the "cafeteria" - which seats >5,000 people - you are "directed" to the appropriate food line and immediately thereafter to the appropriate seat. It is a model of conciseness and precision that I could only hope to attain in my software architectures some day. I understood the level of total orchestration when I was almost tackled by a 5'1" tall woman after I took a left turn instead of a right in order to.http://weblogs.asp.net/jcollins/archive/2003/10/28/33993.aspx SqlXml - still kicking.- October 28, 2003 PDC. We use the SqlXml product quite extensively. Wait. That's an understatement. We use SqlXml exclusively. For those of you who don't understand or who are dismissing me, take another look - it's awesome technology. We were becoming quite concerned that there was maybe only one remaining person working on it at Microsoft since the service pack 2 took, like, months to arrive, but apparently things are still ticking. We were able to corner some guys at the Yukon booth and find out what's up....http://weblogs.asp.net/jcollins/archive/2003/10/28/33991.aspx ASP.NET 2 Rocks My World!- October 28, 2003 PDC. Attended Scott Guthrie's talk on ASP.NET 2 today. Seemed to be about 1,000 people in attendance and a whole lot of applause. When Whidbey finally ships, I'm sure that our application will drop to about 110th the amount of code. Seriously. The ASP.NET group seems to be a group that takes its users very seriously. Every feature that they've included in the framework - master pages, authentication, roles, themes, database caching - EVERYTHING will immediately benefit our product. I look...http://weblogs.asp.net/jcollins/archive/2003/10/28/33990.aspx The Secret to 24x7: an SLA- October 28, 2003 PDC. Apparently, the secret to 24x7 availability in the .NET world is an appropriate Service Level Agreement. Actually, a 60-page SLA; a 2-page SLA is just a problem waiting to happen. Astonishingly, this seemed to be the main jist of the message from the leads of the Birds of a Feather "Managing Scalable .NET Solutions". The idea seemed to be that the best way to provide 24x7 is to have a heavyweight SLA, so that when something happens and goes wrong, you have all sorts of documentation to...http://weblogs.asp.net/jcollins/archive/2003/10/27/33906.aspx Point and Click Demo Considered Harmful- October 27, 2003 PDC. Wow, did I finally find the right conference. It's so refreshing to sit in a room of software architects and listen to a session presented by software architects (Birds of a Feather "Microsoft Patterns & Practices - Are They Relevant to Me") - the audience not only understands what the presenters are trying to accomplish and the approach that they've chosen, but they are also challenging the ideas and techniques themselves. Finally - mental stimulation. An interesting theme rose out of...http://weblogs.asp.net/jcollins/archive/2003/10/27/33905.aspx |