|
I'm usually late to the party, but I eventually get there. This page is devoted to all things PDC.
Posts
Manuel is a graphic designer on the Sparkle team. It's always a hoot to watch him work with Sparkle; he seems to jump around the application at random and can produce beatiful designs in minutes. If you are at the PDC and have a spare time slot at 1:00 today, you should check out his talk! It's in 403 AB.
We just announced a bunch of design tools, two of which specifically target WPF: Sparkle Interactive Designer and the Cider extensions for Visual Studio. Why two? And which one should you use?
Today in Eric Rudder’s keynote we announced several design tools, from a completely revamped Front Page (now Expression Web Designer), two tools for graphic designers, “Acrylic” and “Sparkle”, and one aimed squarely at developers code named “Cider”. We have been busy little bees.
I work on the Cider team. Until today nobody was supposed to know that even existed, so I can now blab, blab, blab. Is there anything in particular you’d like to hear about?
A couple of nights ago Steve Lasker and I had dinner with a group of Microsoft Regional Directors at a great Moroccan restaurant, complete with belly dancers.
Yahoo reports that Los Angeles is having a power outage. That explains why back stage at Hall A is darker than normal. The lights are back on now but they don't yet trust the power so they don't want us back there fiddling with demo machines. I guess it would be bad if the keynote demos had to be abandoned because we fried all the machines.
Well, the we have all safely made it to L.A. Mark Boulter arrived this morning and has been working on demo scripts all day. I hooked up with Chris Anderson and Don Box at the airport. Don used to live out here and recommended Tito's Tacos as the perfect lunchtime getaway. About eleven of us, including baggage, descended on this small little taco stand. I've attached a few pictures.
Here I am packing for PDC. I had put "workout clothes" on my list. After all, the hotel does have a gym. As I sat there cutting the tags off of the workout clothes that have been sitting in my closet for the past six months I realized how pointless the whole idea is.
Like hundreds of other people at Microsoft, I've been spending most of my days preparing for the PDC. There's so much to do, between reviewing slides, helping to polish demos, and fixing bugs in early product code so those demos work, well, mostly the way they should.
|