June 2007 Entries
Perhaps the biggest leap in technology was announced two weeks ago by Microsoft. Microsoft SURFACE takes the computer to a much more user-friendly level. When you watch the video of the applications currently out there you'll comprehend the potential. I see similarities in what Steve Jobs is doing with the iPhone. However, the SURFACE is a Personal Computer on a desktop surface - an appliance, if you will. This is something I would expect from Apple. It looks like Microsoft had this one under wraps for a while.
It is still a ways from being affordable to the average home user, mostly...
[via okcodecamp.com]
The first annual code camp is coming July 28th, 2007 to Oklahoma City! This is an all day event and is FREE to attend! This is going to take place on a Saturday (when its likely to be over 100 degrees outside) so you're going to want to be inside getting access to an excellent group of speakers and content! Oh, and lunch is going to be provided as well, free of cost to you!
The committee has gotten some great industry expert speakers lined up for this code camp, and this is a very rare opportunity to see all...
Keynote - Bob Muglia, Christopher Lloyd
Bob is the senior vice president over the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. The opening was pretty dramatic with a spoof on "Back To The Future". They taped a movie-quality version for the first few minutes. Then out came Bob and Christopher Lloyd AND the Delorean.
Many demonstrations were shown during the keynote. However, the one that stood out to me was the Microsoft Server 2008 Management Tools related to Virtualization. It came across really cool in the way they were able to host many servers and move them to different physical servers at "will". ...
Yesterday, I got to the airport and ran into an old co-worker who was on his way to Tech Ed also - Lance Reed. I was planning on sharing a taxi with a co-worker in Orlando, but Lance volunteered to give us a ride. I really appreciated his generosity. When we arrived at the Convention center the registeration went smooth. Got to our resort at the Wyndham and checked in. Later that night I hooked up with my other co-workers and we ate at Bahama Breeze. We had a fun time. It was a good pre-cursor for Day One.