Daniel Spisak on Technology

Today marks the beginning of Microsoft Week for me. I call it that because I am going to be busy for most of this week up in Los Angeles helping Jerry Pournelle cover the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (a.k.a PDC) up at the South Hall of the LA Convention Center. Seeing as Jerry and I are tasked with writing up daily reports for the show for CMP (the people who own BYTE Magazine I expect to be busy most of the week. This is especially true while I try to sort out the mess going on with my transfer admission situation with UC Irvine.

In any event Tuesday will be the big day at PDC 2005 with Bill Gates giving the opening keynote along with Jim Allchin I believe. So far my preliminary session schedule I’m going to be attending and writing about will cover:

Tuesday, September 13
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM FUNL03 Case Study: Building a More Secure Browser in IE 7 Halls C & D (Petree Hall)

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM COM202 Windows Communications Foundation (”Indigo”): A Lap around the Windows Communications Foundation Halls C & D (Petree Hall)

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM COM311 Developing P2P Applications Using Windows Vista and the Windows Communication Foundation (“Indigo”) PeerChannel 403 AB

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM COM304 Networking: Building IPv6, Firewall, and IPsec Aware Applications 411
PRS203 IE 7: What’s New in IE Halls C & D (Petree Hall)

Wednesday, September 14
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM FUN406 Windows Vista: User Account Protection—Securing Your Application with Least Privilege Administration 402 AB

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM DATL01 Making the Most of RFID in Your Applications 404 AB

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PRS308 Windows Vista: Reaching Your Users When Their Machine Is Off, Using Auxiliary Display Devices 409 AB
PRS309 Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Overview of Windows Vista Graphics 502 AB

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM FUN210 Windows Vista & “Longhorn” Server: Understanding, Enhancing, and Extending Security End-to-End 515 AB
PRS311 Direct 3D Part 1: Utilizing the Maximum Power of the GPU in Your Graphic-Intensive Windows Vista (”Longhorn”) Application 406 AB
PRS333 Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Advances in Document Workflow—Securing, Viewing, and Printing Your Content 502 AB

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PRS313 Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Integrating with Your Win32/MFC Application 409 AB

Thursday, September 15
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM FUN412 Five Things Every Win32 Developer Should Know 150/151 (Hall E)

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM PRS319 Building Applications That Look Great in Windows Vista 152/153 (Hall F)

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM DATL05 Case Study: Extending Virtual Earth for Windows Mobile Devices 404 AB

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM COM423 Windows Communications Foundation (”Indigo”): Web Services Interoperability with Java/J2EE 406 AB

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM PRS325 Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Advanced Graphics (Part 1)—2D, 3D and Text 515 AB

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM PRS328 Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Advanced Graphics (Part 2)—Animations, Imaging, Effects and Media 403 AB

Friday, September 16
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM SECSYM01 Security Symposium: The What, Why and How of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle—and Why You Should Care 502 AB

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM SECSYM02 Security Symposium, continued: The What, Why and How of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle—and Why You Should Care (continued) 502 AB

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PNL07 Future Directions for Windows Internals 515 AB
PNLSEC Commitment and Progress: Bringing SDL to Your Organization 502 AB

As you can see I’ve got some session conflicts to figure out, this is why more then one person is needed to try and cover such a large event. In any case you will see some photos and comments from me throughout the week as I am at the confrence checking things out. Hopefully Jerry and I can get some idea out of Microsoft where things with Windows Vista (Longhorn to those who havent heard about the new Vista name-scheme) are going to be headed. Especially now in light of the whole 7 different versions/SKUs of Vista that will be released. It looks to be a good show worth attending.

And yes, I will be using my PowerBook at the Microsoft event the whole week. I expect that to get me some chuckles.