The Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) starts tomorrow. We're down here, along with a few thousand of our closest Microsoft friends, in Los Angeles, preparing for a long and interesting week.
Vertigo has a few things going on, related to the PDC:
Live from the PDC
You can enjoy the Microsoft PDC live, even if you're not here. Simply tune into
www.microsoftpdc.com and watch the Tuesday and Wednesday keynotes, immediately followed by hours of live broadcast from the Channel 9 team. Vertigo built the DVR-style player that you'll be interacting with.
Broadcast Live with Silverlight
To learn how we built the PDC live player (and the Sunday Night Football Extra and 2010 Olympic Winter Games players), you can find me presenting in Vishal Sood's session, Tuesday at 1:30pm in 515A.
DeepZoom in the Olympics
I'm with Bill Crow (from Seadragon / Live Labs) doing a special Deep Zoom demo during his Tuesday lunchtime session. We'll be in 408B from 12:30 to 1:30. Bill's spending the majority of the session talking about how he works with his smart team of developers.
The Underground at PDC 09
Unless I hear otherwise, I'm doing a short demo of SNF and Olympics at the PDC Underground, Wednesday evening.
On the Floor
Surface: We're showing the Surface project we did for Hard Rock in the Surface team's booth.
http://bit.ly/Cj46h
Windows 7: We're in the Touch booth, showing off work we're doing for one of our fantastic clients, Take Comics.
Codeplex
We have a project going live on Codeplex, but I can't talk about it until later this week.