Archive for August, 2009

Posted on August 21, 2009 - by Adam Elmore

Forward Time Travel & MSDN Roadshow Events

I had a good laugh when I saw that my last post was the night before the official Silverlight 3 release. I started this blog with good intentions, but the last month has been a whirlwind. I must have been one of the few people writing LOB Silverlight applications for a living that hadn’t touched the Silverlight 3 features until the official release. Since release, I have been frantically catching up while still maintaining the level of productivity needed to hit deadlines. Look for future posts outlining my experiences with Silverlight 3.

I spent the last week on a sort of vacation. I attended a couple of MSDN Roadshow events in the Northeast (”Mid-Atlantic Roadshow” and the “Suburban Roadshow”) and met with a client in New York. I had not had the chance to attend any MSDN events in the past, so I wanted to see what they were all about and maybe meet some fellow developers in the process. The experience wasn’t what I expected, to say the least. I’m not convinced that the target audience includes developers who are actually using the technologies being covered. I wasn’t necessarily expecting any earth shattering content, but I did expect that the presenters would have actual experience using the technologies they were discussing. In New York, the Microsoft Evangelist presenting on Dependency Injection admitted to hearing of the concept only days before the event. Seriously? You’re going to present on a topic that you barely have a definition for? I was actually answering questions for uninformed attendees when the presenter failed to do so.

I’m looking forward to PDC 09.