Sebastian Renzi’s Blog

Finally time arrived, I was really anxious to be here. Today workshops took place and tomorrow will be the time for the sessions.

If you are staying in a “PDC hotel”, you can take a bus that will leave you inside the Convention Center.

The registration started at 8 AM, there are 2 registrations areas, one for MSFT employees and another one for mortals .

Once registered, you receive a bag with notebooks, pens, magazines and a plastic water bottle.

You have a coffee area, with a Starbucks store inside, also you have coffee available in every room. You can also find lot of places with AC power plugs, this  a great idea taking into consideration that many of us came with laptop, photo camera and video camera.

Once I registered I met old friends from Merrill Lynch and then attended to the Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp.

The first talk was about Windows 7 kernel enhancements, like memory management, security, NUMA nodes, scalability, power consumption, footprint, parallelism and new technologies related to hardware and software.

The speakers: Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang and Arun Kishan

Then after the lunch I attended to the Windows 7 Sensors and Location API session, they showed really cool demos with external light and motion sensor sensors. One of those demos was a racing game that depending on the light the color of the sky changes, it was really cool.

Tomorrow will take place the Key Note where the demo that Southworks built will be shown, and then I will attend “Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer” presented by Don Box and in the afternoon I will attend “Overview of SharePoint 2010 Programmability”.

Stay tuned and see you tomorrow