The EMEA “Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview” Tour dates start rolling in
I am very much looking forward to the “EMEA Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview Tour” that’s going to happen in a very dense 3 week stretch in late January / early February 2004. I feel honored to have been invited again to present the highlights of the PDC on a speaking tour throughout Europe (as in 2002) with David Chappell and an excellent group of Microsoft EMEA technical evangelists (Lester Madden, Nigel Watling,...
This, that and next week.
I'll put together the v1.5 build version of dasBlog next week. The v1.4 "PDC build" proved to be "true to the spirit of PDC bits" and turned out to have a couple of problems with the new "dasBlog" theme and some other inconveniences that v1.5 will fix. The true heroes of v1.5 are Omar and the many other frequent contributors to the workspace; I just didn't have enough time to add features recently.
As I blogged...
Why so quiet?
No, I didn’t give up blogging. I am working on a project. I am writing lots of specification and a big prototype. Has to do with SOA, Queuing Networks, Agents, Agile Machines and even a little bit with Indigo. I am pretty excited about this. If all works well, the result is going to be public very early next year. I am just too busy to blog at the moment. I...
Snippet from our calendar.
While most of the newtelligence events are currently held in German (such as www.TornadoCamp.net), there's actually one that you can attend that's held in English - and it happens in one of the most beautiful little countries in Europe: Slovenia.
(The area around the event location is so cute, you might think Disney had something to do with it - I've been assured that they didn't)
CodeWeek runs a full week (7 days!), from...
The joy of running pre-alpha software. Longhorn VPC as a domain member.
I am using shared networking in my Longhorn VPC and I could browse the web and connect to the network. So to make working on the network a bit easier (and to try some more features) I thought it may make sense to add the Longhorn Virtual PC on my box to our domain. Setting this up worked.
Now, if I boot up Longhorn and my box is connected to the network, I get to see "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to begin." and right...