As a developer I strive to increase my productivity. In contrast to most people I know, I'm able to multitask at an unusual level. I often sit at my desktop, working on several projects at the same time (literally), I may also watch multiple movies/tv-series at the same time and so forth.
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Do you smell that? It's empty coke cans, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of empty coke cans in the morning.
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As a programmer we strive to make our everyday lives easier. The very engine behind all innovation is lazyness, after all, if it weren't for us being lazy, why would we use - and by that, have a need - for things like automobiles, computers and so forth?
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On thursday night all the Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) met up and took a bus to a nearby hotel where we received some information about the new globally unified MSP program, the future and so forth. We also saw a rather funny demo of the Vista voice control system (which worked less than perfectly to be honest) as well as receiving a lot on info on Imagine Cup.
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The final session of TechEd 2006 (that is, the last session slot - there were multiple to choose from) was held by Rafal Lukawiecki.
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On the third slot this friday I went to see Beat Schwegler, talking about architecting applications for a service oriented world.
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I were in serious doubt as to what subject I should choose for the next session slot. I'm very much into webservices and SOA so "Patterns and Anti-Patterns for SOA" would be perfect. But at the same time Rob Miles held a session on XNA, the new game development framework for both PC and the XBOX. Game development really isn't my thing, but I knew Rob Miles is an excellent speaker, and at the same time I have done some 3D development earlier on and it could be quite interesting to see how the XNA is going to change ones perception of game development - so I chose the XNA session.
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I've been working for some time on the
online PDF viewer, iPaper. The development team was recently expanded as we contracted a new developer. Suddenly we needed a version management tool, it just didn't work out, two developers working on the same set of source files, debugging on the same IIS and so forth. We considered SourceSafe but it's simply too expensive and bulky for the rather basic needs we have.
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The next session was held by Bob Beauchemin, a great speaker. I clearly remember hearing Beuchemin somewhere else, I just can't remember where exactly. Anyways, the session was about SQL Server error handling in T-SQL and SQLCLR.
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At the CCIB (Centre Convencions International Barcelona) where TechEd is held, there's also a trade show where a lot of the interesting 3rd party .NET development companies are showcasing their products. It's a great opportunity to get a look of the new cutting edge technologies that are being marketed either using or for the .NET framework.
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When I looked at the next session slot I stumbled upon a new topic that I had neither seen nor even heard of before, the Microsoft .NET MicroFramework. Now what's that?
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The first demonstration for the day was without doubt the most anticipated one amongst most people here. God himself, Anders Hejlsberg gave a demonstration of the latest LINQ technology. Wow, just wow, LINQ is going to revolutionize the way we think of accessing and modifying data through .NET. We no longer have to use the old bulky SQL statements that were prone to errors due to lack of type safety, runtime compilation/execution. Instead we can write SQL-like statements inside our normal code and return various collections, matching the database structure, giving us total type safety, very readable code and excellent performance as LINQ itself ensures that our queries are optimised for the exact query we're running.
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I arrived at Barcelona yesterday for the 2006 Microsoft TechEd conference. Phew it's hot. While Denmark has sunk into a state of winter, Barcelona's still hot and humid, it's nice to be able to walk outside in just a shirt without getting a cold or being appointed to a mental institution.
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