I can’t talk about what I saw at the Microsoft Home of the Future because I signed an NDA.
I’m usually approached by people telling me they want to talk with me about their startup idea but I have to sign an NDA first. This usually doesn’t happen on the street, but at least once [...]
Categories: mts2008, technology
Here’s a quick list of blog posts about the Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 from people who were there. If you have a link to one please send it to me.
Paul Jones:
Don’t pitch me, bro!
The Real Adam’s impression of Open Source at MS:
http://therealadam.com/archive/2008/03/27/open-source-and-research-at-microsoft/
Luis Villa, who managed to quickly dismiss me and others who care about [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, opensource, technology
The summit’s ended and we had a closing session with Sam Ramji. Some issues about the format were brought up and there were lots of other great comments and questions. Here was my question:
What did Microsoft learn from this?
I want Microsoft to somehow publish, with consent from participants, what they got out this [...]
Categories: mts2008, technology
This is the third day of the Microsoft Technology Summit. I’m thankful it is only a half-day because I’m all .NETted out. That’s just the nature of these types of events; I work with Flex all day, but when I go to Max or 360|Flex, I’m all Flexed out by the end of [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, technology
A friend said I shouldn’t have bothered coming all the way to Seattle to spend 2.5 days listening to Microsoft. Instead I should have just checked this out:
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The summit’s not a sales pitch. [...]
Categories: mts2008, technology
I thought I’d jot down a couple of things about day 1. I wrote out the details live on the chat over at http://www.chatopica.com/topics/flex/
Microsoft Psychological Distress Mechanism
First, the attendees are a variety of people including enterprise architects at large corporations, popular mainstream bloggers (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog, http://www.davidrecordon.com/) and developers, people working in academia, java and [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, technology
Come join me at http://www.chatopica.com/topics/flex
Quick announcement early on: microsoft collaborating to provide apache poi support for office open xml.
Categories: announcements, mts2008
I was recently invited to the Microsoft Technology Summit, a two days worth of sessions on MS technologies. My guess for why I was invited is because I run the Los Angeles Flex Users Group. I looked around for criteria for invitees and found a blog post here:
“The event is specifically for [...]
Categories: flex, technology
This is a quick utility class I came up with that will keep track of a set of Validators and change a bindable property to true if all of the validators it tracks are valid and false if any of the validators is invalid.
I wanted this so I could quickly say something like:
<mx:Button label=”OK” enabled=”{compositeValidator.valid}” [...]
Categories: flex
About a year ago I noticed that a lot of the stuff going into my kitchen trash was vegetable waste. My wife and I are vegetarian. Well I’m mostly vegetarian; I’ll eat the occasional fish and turkey. At home, anyway, we eat vegetarian and most of the waste that was going [...]
Categories: Los Angeles, food