The conference was awesome! I met some more cool people and got a chance to catch-up a little with some friends I met from last year. I did not get to attend as many sessions as I had hoped because I was debugging the robot (Feynman-JR) before my presentation, but did get a chance to [...]

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Last night I arrived around 6:30, just in time to get the robot to the room and checked in before the panel discussion. It was my first panel dicussion and was a little nervous but otherwise just rambled as usual so it was not too bad.
I had a few drinks and met some new people [...]

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I will be speaking about Robotics at the upcoming CodeMash, held January 9-11 at the Kalahari Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio.
This years talk will be about robotics software and will originate from the Java source code in my book to using .Net, PHP, Ajax, and even some Ruby.
I think the most important thing is that you [...]

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Well the trip to Redmond was not a total loss, the MSDN subscription has come in quite handy. The first thing I started working with was Visual Studio 2005 because I had some problems with Suns Implementation of The Communications API for Windows, and the Java Media Framework. It seems that Sun as abandon those [...]

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Expectations Here's what we are going to talk about today:

The Local Software Economy - I am hoping we talk about the ISV and what Microsoft is doing to facilitate this crowd. 
Windows Power Shell - I have looked at this a bit but don't know that much about it. I just hope I [...]

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Morning
Today was a drop off from yesterday. I am not quite sure. I think maybe I am waiting for IIS 7.0 and XBOX. The discussions of "How we suck" have continued… I see they (Microsoft) are struggling with how to communicate with this crowd. They seem to understand the Enterprise crowd, and the [...]

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Speaker #1 - Bill Hilf, General Manager Platform Strategy
The main topic here was that Microsoft is in the business of selling software, open source is a means to an end.

Speaker #2 - Kevin Schofield, General Manager Microsoft Research The most memorable topic here was a vision recognition program, that failed [...]

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Hi,
The only thing I have to say about Day 0 was that travel on Delta still sucks, I had to sit next to 2 fat guys for about 6 hours of my trip. Secondly, my newly updated laptop, Vista Business, would not play the DVD's I rented… Funny, they worked fine on XP last week… [...]

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To all the cool people I met and cool sessions I was not able to attend today, sorry but I had to leave early this morning to attend to stuff in Columbus. I can't wait to see you again, VERY COOL CONFERENCE! Looking forward to 2008.

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Well, I spoked with more speakers tonight than I did during any of the sessions. There was a Very Cool After Hour Party thrown by Quick Solutions. I feel bad that I could not talk to so many cool people, but I met a few fellow APress Authors, which was very cool, a bunch of [...]

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