I've resurrected a blog format for this page because I want to post heavily about the PDC, but my web site's typical "article" format doesn't really cut it for short posts. Thankfully, since my web site is a prime example of over-engineering, adding a format like a blog was very easy.
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.
We've had a philosophy on our team that we would not demo anything that wasn't working for real. Of course, when the rubber meets the road and you just have to have that last cool feature in the demo, sometimes you cheat a little bit. Luckily, we haven't had to cheat very much. I've been very impressed: areas of the product that were not even scheduled to work until much later in the cycle are humming along nicely. It's amazing how strong a "forcing function" a demo in front of hundreds of people can be.
What are we showing? Well, come to the PDC and see!
Brian • 9/8/2005 10:25:57 PM