DevConnections is One Week Away!
I leave for Las Vegas on Sunday morning and arrive in time to attend some pre-conference sessions on Monday at DevConnections.
Here’s what I’m most looking forward to in Las Vegas:
- Geeking out on all the new stuff in the 2005 versions of products. Monday at the show is the official launch, and it’s always great to be part of the party!
- Keynotes by Bjarne Stroustrup and Charles Petzold (and others). I’ve never seen Bjarne speak but as the main person who created C++ it’s got to be interesting. And Charles is always interesting. (By the way, I’m well into his book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, which I’ll read more of on the plane. Very, very interesting!)
- Seeing friends from all over the world.
- Sessions by some incredibly bright people who know the technology: Ken Getz, Rocky Lhotka, Dino Esposito, Markus Egger, Billy Hollis, Julie Lerman, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Paul Litwin, Kim Tripp, Dan Appleman, Carl Franklin, Christian Weyer, Itzik Ben-Gan, Gert Drapers, Kate Gregory, and Herb Sutter are just a FEW of them. Wow! The schedule has multiple sessions I want to attend in every time slot!
- It’s been years since I wrote C++ code (I went from C++ to Clipper to VB to VB.NET and C# in my development career), but I’ll be spending time at the C++ Connections conference sessions because there are so many great ones!
- Meeting new people from all over who are doing interesting things with technology. (BTW, if you’re going and are from Alaska, be sure to say hi to me!)
- Great food. The Manadalay Bay is a HUGE resort with everything you could want from Vegas. No wonder I always gain weight at these conferences.
- November in the desert. I hate leaving Alaska during the winter (we’re well into training for skijoring and mushing) but what can I say? The desert in fall and winter is magical!
- A Roasting Bjarne Stroustrup event on Wednesday night. I’ve no idea what this is all about, but it sounds fun!
How can you stand not being there???
Okay, that’s enough exclamation points for one post. In and among all the other stuff going on, I’ll be doing five sessions. In SQL Connections:
- Using the XML Data Type
- Data Encryption in SQL Server 2000
- Security in the CLR World Inside SQL Server
And in Visual Studio Connections:
- Making the Most of Visual Studio 2005’s Security Tools
- Building Applications, Next Generation: MSBuild