Tuesday, November 17, 2009

PDC 09 Session 3

This was a very good session with two great presenters. I liked everything they showed, but it is one you should go watch the video for (if you can). http://www.microsoftpdc.com

- Session 3 Evolving ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Beyond
- Gah missed the names. Thanks internet: Shyam Pather, Chris Anderson
- lots o demos
- all .net 4 stuff
- personable speakers
- model first data entities (make the model and then the database gets made from that)
- man this guy is incredibly fast
- Quandrent (spelling is hard)
- Entity Framework.
- This shit is hot, I will be all over this in March when 4 comes out.
- Testing without using your database thanks to the iobjectset
- you can grab data change it local track the changes and submit it back to the DB.
- MIcrosoft Surface is still the coolest thing in the world.
- wow that is special. That makes things easy doesn't it.
- Guy behind me is sleeping, snoring too. I'm way too excited about this (NEEEERD) to sleep
- forgien keys in the model
- Lots of cool demos, that is a video to watch.

PDC 09 Session 2

Session 2 was right after lunch and was only okay, very abstract as none of it was really real yet. Still some interesting stuff that we will be able to do.

- Session 2: Microsoft ASP.NET Futures with Jonathan Carter and Scott Hunter
- DTA
- SEO stuff in .NET 4
- oooo scheduling in future version of ASP.NET
- what is routing? something related to SEO
- ASP is trying to get Common activities into one line of code (resize an image, scheduling, etc.)
- image maipulation.
- File upload with progress (not a poor man's progress)
- my class in VB.NET? Research
- Good idea, I have way too many apps that need something done every x mins that I do the poor man's way.
- Maybe the guy last time wasn't so short maybe that table is really tall.
- oh Routing I get it. This could be good for events.
- SmartyRoute check for the last "directory" on disk (foo/bar search for bar) if it does not exist goto the next one (foo) and if that exists pass the first one (bar) to the page that exists
- would remove extensions. This would be good for Sitecore.
- Demo fail....
- All this stuff is planned for the future too bad not now
- ASP is looking into implementing HTML5 items into the ASP standard (I think that was vague)
- losing focus.
- hehe the Microsoft guy is using firefox instead of scourge of the software world (IE)
- Microsoft has a cool zoom tool for presentations
- Everyone with a laptop out is surfing the internet
- Velocity - distributed cache platform.
- save anything you want I think got distracted
- works for webfarms one cache for all web servers
- meh
- css sprites and minification
- minimizing http requests for the lifecycle of the page
- sprites put everything in one file so the kbs don't change but the number of requests goes down.
- I really want to work at microsoft now. This shit looks facinating.
- definatly not ready yet, but a really cool idea. All images are done via CSS, slick as all hell.
- Everything will be controled by convention (folders in the correct place and different names etc.
- Active Record - use this as a prototype before creating DB
- neat this will create a database for you as well. With forgein keys and pks
- wow, that's neat, Active record does all the heavy lifting for your DBs
- These view things look pretty neat too.
- Okay you're done now, move on.
- easier, that is good cause web programmers don't get enough flak for not being real programmers :P

PDC 09 Session 1

My Notes from the first session at PDC 09. I hope to take some notes in every session so that I can continually update here.

- Sat next to a guy constantly tweeting during the keynote. I would have unfollowed him.
- Good keynote, lots of interesting stuff about VS and Windows Azure.
- Stumbled (read: limped) into the wrong session now learning about: "Software + Services Identity Roadmap Update" instead of "Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic"
- I should research STS for single sign on with all our web apps
- The head guy for MS Dynamics is about to speak (Andrew Bybee)
- Claims Authentication, interesting idea. Similar to the idea on certs. Trusted providers authenticate "claims"
- Working in Dynamics working inside outlook as well.
- There is a moth in here, California is awesome
- Spiderman quote, Andrew is a cool guy
- Sharepoint Developer now to talk about claims. Shortest person ever (Venky Veeranghavan)
- Multiple hops to different servers, you lose auth after the first hop. Claims fixes this.
- mmm slow internet
- I want to code all the time, I love coding mmm coding.
- Empty room, really neat talk though crapy abstract
- Quest software guy talking now. (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Lots of demos.
- This is a cool technology, solves a lot of our single sign on problems.
- Quest software has a cool domain backup thing.
- Looks like you can use this with Google and Yahoo IDs as well as AD and .NET
- .NET ACS
- OpenID - used by Google, Yahoo and Soon LIVE
- Information Card system
- (Gert Drapers) Claims guy
- Relationship information for each "party" inside of AD
- use AD to get information (BRILLIANT!)
- neat, AD could be super powerful, with this claims stuff.