Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
[This blog post is a stub. I’ll be expanding it soon with details from sessions] Tuesday was the first and quite a busy day here at devConnections 2005 . After Mat Nunn’s introduction to SQL server 2005, I attended Jonathan Hawkin, lead program manager Microsoft Corp’s presentation on “Developing ASP.NET server control with design time…
Having Tablet PC hands on lab workshop running in parallel with trade show was a great idea. Microsoft is taking a bold initiative in ink based development. The hand writing recognition is way more refined than I've used before and controls are sophisticated. It has made much easier for developers to use the power of ink; hwnd mapping…
With Charles Petzold, the living legend of win32 API programming. With Scott Guthrie; a Microsoft product unit manager on web platform and tools who got ASP.NET started and hence considered Father of ASP.NET
After pre-conference workshops and sessions, the keynote session started at 6:30 AM at south pacific ballroom. Paul Litwin gave brief introduction of devConnections and enlighten us about the significance of this event as it lined up with the visual studio 2005 launch. Paul Litwin Speaking at the launch. Time Machine - Dev Connections 1985…
Monday Nov 7th, Las Vegas NV: Me and Jeremy arrived at Las Vegas airport from Burbank really fast, within 35 minutes! Our flight was supposed to be an hour long but we were standing right there in Vegas at 11:34 AM...that was amazing. Finding hotel and registration was easy; In order to go to Mandalay…
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Paul Litwin published the list of DevConnection bloggers last night. It's surely going to be a well recorded event. Dino EspositoDon KielyPaul Litwin Adnan Masood Tim Mitchell Dmitry Robsman Brandon Satrom
Microsoft MVP and INETA speaker, Kathleen Dollard will be conducting following sessions in Visual Studio Connections. I found her teaching and presentation style to be developer friendly and topics look interesting. Unless already occupied, I should definitely be found in first row. Wednesday, November 09, 2005 at 9:45 AM Polishing Your WinForm Application .NET 2.0 offers…
Our Mount Wilson Adventure is published! As a side note, as NEC is rapidly thriving and therefore we've out grown our space and had to move to a new cool new building. I've got a nice new bigger, better and uncut cubicle “Adnanotopia“ whose pictures I'll be posting soon.
Couple of days ago, I and Rob were discussing merits and pitfalls of template based code generation in llbgen and codesmith. Also, that it's a fallacy code generation has become somewhat synonym to ORM (Object Relational Modelling) and ORM faces several challenges when it comes to support legacy systems. This reminded me of Kathleen Dollard, author of “Code Generation…