• Farewell, GeoCities! You were my first homepage… You remember that feeling, "Hurry up, reserve your lifetime address in the Internet"? #

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Strangely enough, the official web site of upcoming PDC09 doesn’t allow to bookmark interesting sessions on-site, so I’ll gather all interesting stuff in this article hoping that the pages behind the links will feature video recordings of the sessions after the conference.

There are only sessions interesting to me, somewhat sorted accordingly.

Directly related to my job

• REST Services Security Using the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service
  ^ at last they do something on this topic
• Building Live Media Viewing Experiences Using Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming and the Smooth Streaming Player SDK
  ^ ok, now there is an SDK…
• ADO.NET Data Services: What’s New with the RESTful Data Services Framework
  ^ by Pablo Castro! don’t miss that one
• Scaling Your Data Tier with Microsoft Project Code Name “Velocity”
  ^ hopefully news about Velocity
• Evolving ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Beyond
  ^ hopefully news about EF
• Extending Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.x
  ^ hopefully, they’ve at last understood that deploying of a web app cannot be done with XCOPY (like they’ve said some years ago) and did something on this topic
• Custom Behaviors for Advanced Microsoft Silverlight UI Effects
  ^ already doing that stuff, but let’s see how to do it ideologically correct
• Microsoft Silverlight 3: Advanced Performance and Profiling Techniques
  ^ its Seema! –> must see

Interesting stuff that can be helpful

• Making Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Fly
• Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight
• Networking and Web Services in Silverlight
• SketchFlow: Prototyping to the Rescue
• Power Tools for Debugging
• Application Server Extensibility with Microsoft Project Code Name “Dublin” and Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management to the Build Setup Rescue
• Microsoft Expression Blend 3 for Developers: Tips, Tricks and Best Practices
• Rx: Reactive Extensions for .NET

To better understand general roadmaps of Microsoft technologies

• Microsoft Silverlight Roadmap and Futures
• The Future of Database Development with SQL Azure
• Building Amazing Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft .NET RIA Services
• Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight
• A Computing Platform That Scales
• Bridging the Gap from On-Premises to the Cloud

Just some random fun

• DirectX11 DirectCompute
• Building Data-Driven Applications Using Microsoft Project Code Name “Quadrant” and Microsoft Project Code Name ”M”
• Managing Development to Inspire Innovation and Create Great User Experiences
  ^ despite of the lame title, it is Seadragon Group Manager Bill Crow who will talk about it. I hope he’ll tell us how they allowed the DeepZoom API to go to RTW (because it looks extremely alpha-ish and not thought through enough.. ough…  ugh… gh… English language is sometimes funny too).
• Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming

Do you know this feeling, when a tooth aches for a such long time that you want to rip it out  of your mouth? Because you’re already OK with living without a tooth instead of enduring the pain…

I have this very feeling in the last time, and it is not a tooth but my heart I want to rip out of my chest. And this reminds me of two stories I’ve read as a child.

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• German Mac user can now also watch blockbusters legally – with PlayReady and maxdome.de #
• Watch what good lenses, a couple of filters, postproduction and golden hands and hearts can do with a usual street feast http://j.mp/1yzUvQ #

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Who are you: Human-Machine, Human-Symbol, Human-Nature or Human-Human?

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• It is damn hard to be strong, if you aren't. #
• VERY cool multi-touch concept and very cool UX concept: http://vimeo.com/6712657. Want it. #
• Made in China http://j.mp/lCzwy Poor salesgirl, hope she laughed afterwards. #
• The only drawback of cycling in winter is the cold air. And the wind. And the rain. And the slippery roads. #
• @MandMX Where can I watch the full movie? in reply to MandMX #
• Stylish winter clothes is a challenge: they must be warm, and cool. #
• Found a performance problem of Silverlight DeepZoom in some cases: http://is.gd/4kL23 #
• It is snowing! #
• Wow, klasse UX und Konzept, bin gespannt wenn es raus ist: http://is.gd/4mkYU #MediaCenter #RecommendationEngine #Rückkanal #

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I like the format of “personal victories” when describing milestones of self-improvement in some area. I first stumbled upon it in the post about learning Chinese.

So I want to compile my own list of 15 small personal victories in a life of a software developer.

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• If you haven’t discovered the fantastic voice of 王若琳 yet, may be it’s time now. http://bit.ly/8JfUM #
• @Damir Wow, Katharinensteg – das ist ja 200 Meter entfernt von wo ich lebe! in reply to Damir #
• Silverlight: Setting IsHitTestVisible to true makes the control also invisible for VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates. Huh? #
• SECURITY DISASTER: Thousands of Hotmail passwords posted – http://arst.ch/8ip (via @OneMicrosoftWay). Check if you’re affected #
• Tried jinni.com. According to it, Kill Bill 1 is similar to: Kill Bill 2 (duh), Lady Snowblood (good match!), and… Rambo (huh!?) #
• I know no better symbol of happiness than a child flying a kite. #
• Interesting mice http://bit.ly/7dPnl #
• @weiss_heiko Ja, und damit sich diese wieder genesen in reply to weiss_heiko #
• This is exactly why I’m a geek: you can see things only God saw before you, and then show them to everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg  via @Damir #
• http://www.smoothdrm.com/ seems to be old news, but I wonder why don’t they have a live demo. #

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USSR in 1980 was a funny place. By this time, only a minority had really believed in communism, but many ”simple” people had nevertheless thought that their life was still better than life standard of the most other nations.

After all, soviet people had a guaranteed job (in fact, everyone has been even REQUIRED to have a job; those who hadn’t could be prosecuted), all kinds of education and health care were free for everyone, it was peace, and by doing some well-known (albeit corrupted) actions you could even be allowed to make a trip into a foreign country and bring back a fashionable jeans and a dream of many soviet boys and girls – a buble gum.

Err… Well, yeah, “they” could make better jeans and bubble gums, but “we” were still better. No only because we didn’t lynched blacks and didn’t have greedy capitalists, but because socialism had future. And capitalism didn’t. Many were adamant of it. I think, my parents supported that too. 

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• translationparty.com is fun. Tried it with "If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass" #
• What a cool gadget http://j.mp/q3KRw #
• http://twitpic.com/iumtm – 22 Centigree and sunny today – not bad for September 23 in Germany #
• Developing DRM solutions at work, isn't it ironic that the Pirate Party represents my interests best in the current Bundestag elections? #
• http://gizmodo.com/5366263 via @XaocCPS: interesting. Sharp has always been my favorite trademark in consumer electronics. #
• Intel has implemented Smooth Streaming for netbooks http://j.mp/13DCIq #
• @XaocCPS Yep #
• The dentist couldn't help but laugh out loudly looking at me trying my usual smile after a huge dose of anesthesia http://j.mp/RFDjd #
• I favorited a YouTube video — X-Ray Dog – "Acts of Courage" http://bit.ly/34ZRu #
• Attack! http://j.mp/626kI #
• Hah! http://j.mp/3bQJBN. Apple's soft for Windows is naughty evil anyway. I'm glad I don't have iPhone thus don't need to install iTunes. #
• Вот ведь, а у меня только в первой кружке. А в остальные, значит, недоливают! "…each cup of coffee contains one good idea" via rands #
• 生日快乐中华人民共和国! #
• Geek is a sexual orientation RT @weiss_heiko: dear source code … you are so beautiful #
• I like it, when art makes me to hold my breath http://j.mp/17yJDq #
• ScrollViewer in Silverlight prevents mouse down events from bubbling up. Dunno why, so I declare it as bug. Workaround: IsTabStop=false. #
• @mirkohumbert Its insulting the twitter web site doesn't support IE6. It isn't much different from any 90ies site to require a new browser. in reply to mirkohumbert #
• @mirkohumbert A good thing for corps, but not for people. If people really needed better browsers, why would they stick with IE6? in reply to mirkohumbert #
• @mirkohumbert How come FF is better than IE6? It is slower, needs more RAM, and doesn't use Windows Update. 90% of plugins is crap. Tabs? in reply to mirkohumbert #

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