Dan Rigsby - Coding Up Style

Microsoft PDC 2008 starts up in a couple of days.  I have been here in LA with my wife since Thursday.  We have been getting our fill of some fine cuisine, calming beaches, expensive shops, and hectic traffic.  I have thoroughly enjoyed the time out here with my beautiful wife, but I am getting very excited about PDC.  With each passing day, the anticipation keeps building and building.

If you aren’t making it out to PDC this year, be sure to check out the MSDN Developer Conferences which are touring the United States right after PDC.  The will be great events for those that couldn’t attend PDC and those that do make it out.

The entire PDC week will probably be one of the busiest weeks of life.  There is so much going on both inside and outside of the conference, I doubt I will be able to keep it all straight.  My good friend, Dave Bost, wrote up an agenda of where he is planning to be all week.  I am going to pick up his torch and write up my own agenda as well.  Hopefully this will help others find me so that we can meet up, and  I also anticipate that this will help me be where I need to be.  Some of these events are private and I have tried to mark them as such.  If it is a private event and you are attending as well, feel free to meet up with me.

Outside of the events listed below, I plan on spending time Open Spaces area, the Partner Expo, the Product Pavilion, the Hands-on-Labs, blogging, napping, playing with the new bits, and sitting in comfy chairs.  I really do want to spend the majority of my time networking, meeting new people, and seeing how others are using Microsoft technologies.

Here is what I have planned so far.  It will change over time.  You can follow me on Twitter for more instant updates, or just follow me around.  I will be moving quite a bit!

Sunday, Oct. 26th

• 9:00AM-10:00AM: Speaking at SoCal Codecamp over Duplexing in Wcf (GFS 106)
• 10:30AM: Registering for PDC
• 11:30AM-1:00PM: Lunch at Together @PDC event (private)
• 1:00PM-6:00PM: Together @PDC event playing the part of a Hollywood tourist (private)
• Sunday evening: I may make it out to Party with Palermo, but I will probably spend the event with my wife instead

Monday, Oct. 27th

• (Available for Breakfast)
• 8:30AM-10:30AM: Keynote, Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
• 11:00AM-12:15AM: Identity Roadmap for Software + Services (502A) or A Lap around Cloud Services Part 1 (Petree Hall CD)
• 12:15PM: (Available for Lunch)
• 12:45PM-1:30PM: "Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud (515A)
• 1:30PM-2:15 pm: Small roundtable discussion with Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, and others (will head to Anders’ C# session immediately after this if there is room and it is still in session) (private)
• 3:30 PM-4:45 PM: A Lap around Cloud Services Part 2 (Petree Hall CD)
• 5:15PM-6:30PM: Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service (Petree Hall CD)

• 6:00PM-10:00PM: Influential’s Party (private)
• 8:00PM-10:00PM: Private dinner (private)
• 10:00PM-12:00AM: PDC Bloggers party (private)

Tuesday, Oct. 28th

• (Available for Breakfast)
• 8:30AM-9:30AM: Partner Evangelist Breakfast, Sheridan (private)
• 8:30AM-11:00AM: Keynote, Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell
• 11:00AM-12:00PM: Keynote, Don Box and Chris Anderson
• 12:30PM: (Available for Lunch)
• 12:45PM-1:30PM: WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale (515B)
• 1:45PM-3:00PM: Essential Cloud Storage Services (502A) or A Lap around "Oslo" (Petree Hall CD)
• 3:30PM-4:45PM: Identity: "Geneva" Deep Dive (409A) or "Oslo": The Language (151)
• 5:15PM-6:30PM: Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework (502A) or Architecting Services for the Cloud (Petree Hall CD)

• 7:00PM: Attendee Party at Universal Studios
• 11:00PM: After Party at the Lounge at Westin Bonneventure

Wednesday, Oct. 29th

• (Available for Breakfast)
• 8:30AM-11:00AM: Keynote, Rick Rashid
• 10:30AM-11:45AM: Service Bus Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery (406A) or WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 (151)
• 12:00PM-12:45PM: Working down at the Microsoft Partner booth in the Pavilion, stop by and say “hi”
• 1:15PM-2:30PM: "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience (151)
• 3:00PM-4:15PM: A Day in the Life of a Could Service Developer (Petree Hall CD) or "Oslo": Repository and Models (151)
• 4:45PM-6:00PM: Live Services: Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework (153)

• 5:00PM-7:00PM: Cocktails in the Clouds (private)
• 6:00PM–2:00AM: Underground@PDC, The Edison
• 7:00PM-9:00PM: Central Region DPE Mixer, Figueroa Hotel (private)
• 9:00PM-12:00AM: Together @PDC party, Figueroa Hotel (private)

Thursday, Oct. 30th

• (Available for Breakfast)
• 8:30AM-10:00AM: Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud (515B)
• 10:15AM-11:30: Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh (411)
• 10:15AM-11:45: Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications (515B)
• 12:00PM-1:30PM: "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs (502A)
• 1:45PM-3:00PM: Identity: Windows CardSpace "Geneva" Under the Hood (411)

• I am open the rest of the day for talking, parting, etc.  Just let me know!

Friday, October 31st – Halloween Day

• 9:15AM: Flight back to Indianapolis and a couple of enjoyable days digging into all of the new bits from PDC

Let me know where you will be.  I would really like to meet everyone I can!