[PDC 2008] – Show off selection

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Finally my video didn’t make it for the ShowOff contest at the PDC 2008. Here is the answer I’ve got:

I wanted to thank you again for your ShowOff entry. Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming response to ShowOff, we had to make some hard decisions about which entries we would be able to show during the event. We really liked your video, but unfortunately it didn't make it into our final cut this year.

So here the video I sent in which I demonstrate some of the possibilities of the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool based on Word 2007 and Open XML!

Arrived at Los Angeles for PDC 2008

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We finally arrived in Los Angeles, Sébastien Ros and myself after quite a trip.

We left Mulhouse (East of France) at 7:AM on Saturday direction Paris, then Paris direction Seattle and finally Los Angeles.

We had a Mexican diner, I love Mexican food, with Sébastien at Loteria Grill – Hollywood. There website sucks but the place is good and the food was excellent.

We were 25 hours up and running and I am somehow tired. The first night at The hotel Roosevelet on Hollywood Boulevard was awful with two neighbors rooms making such a noise from 11PM to 2 AM finished by a big fight in the hotel corridor on the 8th floor. Unbelievable!!!

I couldn’t make any picture during the flight from Paris to Seattle, but we saw some amazing scene on top of Iceland and Canada!

Here a re some pictures of the trip from Seattle to Los Angeles with Alaska Airlines!

Seattle

Mont Rainier

Beautiful nature on the way

Approaching Los Angeles

Arriving at Los Angeles

Los Angeles with the famous Hollywood logo on the background

Los Angeles

You might watch my PDC 2008 pictures on flickr.

PDC2008 Here I come!

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I finished a first selection of my sessions!

The main topic for me will be Cloud Computing and Live Mesh. With some WF 4.0, WCF 4.0 and Dublin and for sure some more web stuff like Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC.

I have an application participating to the Show Off Contest! So I hope to meet some of you there:

Monday, October 27
8:30pm–10:00pm
403AB

Finally I will attend “Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft” Presenter(s): Mary Poppendieck, Grigori Melnik on Sunday!

I enjoy reading Mary’s book “Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash” with some more pages to read during the long flight!

When I attend such an event like Tech Ed or PDC I always select two sessions per time slot, in case one is full then I know on which one I want to go, so don’t be surprise!

See you there!

Meet us at the PDC 2008

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I really look forward to see where will head Live Mesh. Some year’s ago I was impressed (and I am not that often impressed) by an application called Groove. Groove is an application, but less known is that it is also a platform on top of which you could develop! It was already an initiative of Ray Ozzie. At that time I enjoyed seeing a Windows application exposing Web Services on your local machine to program against, nice idea. With Live Mesh it is a clear next step. And now thanks to Silverlight your applications can be hosted on your notebook but also on the cloud, so there will be accessible from any device with Internet access. I already have an idea for one application to explore this new architecture.

I look forward to learn more about Cloud Services, Velocity, Oslo, Parallelism, the new version of Workflow… It will be an intensive week!

I hope to see the launch of Silverlight for mobile device, the Live Mesh client for mobile device! And why not a synchronization extension for Zune using Live Mesh (this would be hot !)

If I find the time to finalize my project before October 17, I will also try to participate to the Show Off contest!

I think we might have also a good time at the Tuesday evening party in Universal Studios Hollywood!

And as I am a fan of Mexican food the last post on the PDC blog was really good for me! L.A. Insights: Mexican Food, I hope to have some time to experience some of those different places!