The other reason why it's good to be back near my stuff for World Cup watching. Projection surface approx. 3.20m x 1.80m.
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I've been quoted as to have said so at TechEd and I'll happily repeat it: "XML is the assembly language of Web 2.0", even though some (and likely some more) disagree. James Speer writes "Besides, Assembly Language is hard, XML isn’t." , which I have to disagree with.
True, throwing together some angle brackets isn't the hardest thing in the world, but beating things into the right shape is hard and probably...
A lot of people loved the party location choice for this year's TechEd: Boston's Fenway Park. For anyone even less familiar with the sport that is so American that the Americans run the World Championship every year without even bothering to ask anybody not from North America whether they'd be willing to participate in it: Fenway Park is the home of the Boston Red Sox Baseball team.
Anyways...
[Note to self: Schedule the video taping session early in a bound-to-be-stressful week, not 2 hours before you need to leave for the airport on Friday.]
MSDN TV has a new episode featuring yours truly speaking about WCF bindings (and what they cause in the channel stack).
I was sad when "Indigo" and "Avalon" went away. It'd be great if we'd have a pool of cool legal-approved code-names for which we own the trademark rights and which we could stick to. Think Delphi or Safari. "Indigo" was cool insofar as it was very handy to refer to the technology set, but was removed far enough from the specifics that it doesn't create a sharply defined, product-like island within the larger managed-code landscape or has legacy connotations like "ADO.NET". Also, my...