More Good Stuff - but beware the jetlag
I managed to make it to three presentations today. The first was about data synchronization with Longhorn. It looks very nice. There is continuing evidence that the key consideration of the design is "how do people want it to work" rather than "how can we make it work" and this seems to be underpinning all of the Longhorn stuff. The idea that stuff just arrives at the right place at the time that you need it is very compelling.
Then we had another presentation from Don Box on the Indigo part of Longhorn. This emphasised how much the design of the interactions is under pinned by a service based approach, and showed how easy it is to construct connections between programs using this technology.
Finally I went to a talk about the upcoming location based services that Microsoft is releasing. These will let you use a variety of technologies to find out where people are, put them on a map and then offer them services relevant to that location. Good to see that a lot of attention has been paid to the privacy part of the system. You can get a message each time someone tries to find out where you are. There's another presentation on this tomorrow which will be worth a look. Interesting that people are now attaching mobile phones to valuable pieces of equipment so that they can track them around the country!
And then I went home to bed. I find that I get the jetlag around three days into a trip. The first couple of days I can run on adrenalin and reserves, but at day three all I want to do is sleep. Staggered back to the hotel in the middle of the afternoon and got a couple of hours of shut-eye prior to going out to a very posh restaurant (Campanile, 624 S La Brea Av, Los Angeles) which Fabien found on Google. Good on you Google. The menu was astonishing. I understood every other word on it - just about. In that situation you go for tried and trusted solutions and so I had the steak. Which was enormous. And delicious. I didn't eat it all unfortunately (I'd like to meet the the person who can and shake them by the hand - or perhaps not..) but what I did have was excellent. They had a bottle of wine which cost 3,300 dollars.
A clue, I don't think it is the bottle of "Thunderbird". Then a cab back to the hotel and wonderful sleep.
Good book alert. Found a really good book on C#. At first glance it is not particularly good value. I know the first quarter of the material anyway and most of the pages have loads of blank space on them. But it is wonderful because it just tells you how to do stuff. Previously my weapon of first resort was the Nutshell book on C# (which is still a good buy). However, this just gives you all the api stuff and don't cover all the neat things you can do with C#. This book just tells you how to do all that, from ASP to Web Services to Office Automation. Not an enormous amount of material on each, but enough to get started. It also has coverage of the new features in version 2.0 of C#.Take a look at C# Programming Handbook by Gregory S MacBeth from Apress.
Then we had another presentation from Don Box on the Indigo part of Longhorn. This emphasised how much the design of the interactions is under pinned by a service based approach, and showed how easy it is to construct connections between programs using this technology.
Finally I went to a talk about the upcoming location based services that Microsoft is releasing. These will let you use a variety of technologies to find out where people are, put them on a map and then offer them services relevant to that location. Good to see that a lot of attention has been paid to the privacy part of the system. You can get a message each time someone tries to find out where you are. There's another presentation on this tomorrow which will be worth a look. Interesting that people are now attaching mobile phones to valuable pieces of equipment so that they can track them around the country!
And then I went home to bed. I find that I get the jetlag around three days into a trip. The first couple of days I can run on adrenalin and reserves, but at day three all I want to do is sleep. Staggered back to the hotel in the middle of the afternoon and got a couple of hours of shut-eye prior to going out to a very posh restaurant (Campanile, 624 S La Brea Av, Los Angeles) which Fabien found on Google. Good on you Google. The menu was astonishing. I understood every other word on it - just about. In that situation you go for tried and trusted solutions and so I had the steak. Which was enormous. And delicious. I didn't eat it all unfortunately (I'd like to meet the the person who can and shake them by the hand - or perhaps not..) but what I did have was excellent. They had a bottle of wine which cost 3,300 dollars.
A clue, I don't think it is the bottle of "Thunderbird". Then a cab back to the hotel and wonderful sleep.
Good book alert. Found a really good book on C#. At first glance it is not particularly good value. I know the first quarter of the material anyway and most of the pages have loads of blank space on them. But it is wonderful because it just tells you how to do stuff. Previously my weapon of first resort was the Nutshell book on C# (which is still a good buy). However, this just gives you all the api stuff and don't cover all the neat things you can do with C#. This book just tells you how to do all that, from ASP to Web Services to Office Automation. Not an enormous amount of material on each, but enough to get started. It also has coverage of the new features in version 2.0 of C#.Take a look at C# Programming Handbook by Gregory S MacBeth from Apress.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003
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