Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Learning at devConnections, or any high-paced-hi-tech-content-packed technical conferences for that matter, is different from conventional educational process. The contents covered in the sessions are of broader nature and requires deep understanding and discussion before fully “digested” by mind. Due to time crunch, it’s obviously not possible to have one day workshop on any or…
[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…
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…
Bernard Wong does an excellent job of developer event's evangelism; kudos to him on the launch of new .NET user group in Santa Barbara. He maintains a list of socal development events which comes in pretty handy and I try to attend most of them. In first week of November, in time tested Los Angeles.NET developers group,…
Launch event is here! I'll be attending mine in Anaheim, hurry up and get registered to Walk away with “a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and SQL Server™ 2005 Standard Edition”.