Let’s wait how Bing and Yahoo response to reflect their choice on ethics or principles Vs $

I like the security part…

Full > 1 hr events recording

• I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It- Alistair Cockburn
• Deliberate Practice in Software Development – Mary Poppendieck
• Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice – Scott Ambler
• Integration Tests are a Scam – J.B. Rainsberger
• Scaling Up by Scaling Down: A (re)Focus on Individual Skills – Ashley Johnson and Amr Elssamadisy
• When it Just HAS to Work – Brian Shoemaker, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert (week of Sep 28)
• Metrics in an Agile World – Rob Myers, James Shore (week if Oct 12)
• Agile Project Metrics – Dave Nicolette (week of Oct 26)
• The Bold, New Extreme Programming Experiment
• Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises – Dean Leffingwell (week of Nov 23)
• Kanban adoption at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) – Chris Shinkle (week of Dec 7)
• Pragmatic Personas: Putting the user back into user stories – Jeff Patton (week of Dec 21)
• The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks – Mike Cottmeyer (week of Jan 04)
• Tips and Techniques For Implementing An Agile Program Across Distributed Teams – Tamara Sulaiman (week of Jan 18)
• Eight Guiding Values – Brian Marick (week of Feb 01)
• From Concept to Product Backlog – What Happens Before Iteration 0? – Gerard Meszaros (week of Feb 15)
• Agile Infrastructure – Andrew Shafer, Paul Nasrat (week of Mar 01)
• Growing an Agile Culture from Value Seeds – Paul Ingalls, Troy Frever (week of Mar 15)

– Now In Its Ninth Year – Brian Spears (week of Nov 9)

Please see http://www.infoq.com/Agile2009 for latest updates

WCF 3.5 REST Screencasts

• Building RESTful Services with WCF – Part 1
• Building RESTful Services with WCF – Part 2
• Calling RESTful Services with WCF

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 1 Screencasts

• Getting started with the WCF REST Starter Kit (Preview 1)
• A lap around the new API extensions – Part 1
• A lap around the new API extensions – Part 2
• Resource singleton services
• Resource collection services
• Atom feed services
• AtomPub services
• HTTP plain XML (POX) services
• Multiple resource representations
• Implementing X-HTTP-Method-Override

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 Screencasts

• Getting started with the WCF REST Starter Kit (Preview 2)
• Using HttpClient to consume Twitter in under 3 minutes!
• Consuming REST services with HttpClient
• HttpClient: Query string and form input
• HttpClient: Processing message content

Windows 7 RTM & Windows 2008 R2 RTM: 2nd half of July

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx

Also, no more couch in the family room, at least moved to the side. No pets and no unncessary sound in the family room too… does it really what we want? where is my cosy family room?

Or see the announcement on E3

or here

I hope Microsoft can learn the lesson, instead of just giving out DVDs and backpacks in every PDC… I can download software myself, don’t need give me the DVDs (beta s/w, CTP), since most of them are out-dated before I have time to try it out, I need to download the latest bit anyway.

Anyway, let see what happen in day 2 keynote… this one is better… one long video instead of in parts..

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Other Sessions videos will be available here