Craig’s Musings

It appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions:

1. Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
2. A Lap around Windows Azure
3. “Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud
4. The Future of C# - Anders Hejlsberg
5. A Lap around the Azure Services Platform - John Shewchuk
6. Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service

Well, I’m off to grab a seat for the keynote session. I’ll follow up with a post on what I expect to learn about cloud computing, next.

Update 10/28/2008: FWIW, here is the rest of my plans at PDC (besides networking, of course):

Day 2

1. Keynote - Ray Ozzie et al
2. Keynote - Don Box & Chris Anderson
3. Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application
4. A Lap around “Oslo”
5. Architecture of the .NET Services
6. Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Cloud Services

Day 3

1. Keynote - Rick Rashid
2. .NET Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery with the Service Bus…or Panel: The Future of Programming Languages…or Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio
3. Windows 7: Design Principles for Windows 7
4. .NET Services: Logging, Diagnosing, and Troubleshooting Applications Running Live in the Cloud or Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
5. Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices
6. .NET Services: Access Control Service Drilldown

Day 4

1. Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML
2. .NET Services: Messaging Services - Protocols, Protection, and How We Scale
3. “Oslo”: Building Textual DSLs or Designing Your Application to Scale or Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud
4. An Introduction to Microsoft F# or .NET Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow
5. …or, instead of the regular session rhythm, there are 3-part symposia (e.g. on services [1], [2] and [3]…difficult choice…