Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

It seems I missed my one-year anniversary of link posts by a week and a half. My blog has been up longer than that, but it took a little while to find its raison d’être. Here is the first link post… it wasn’t very developer-focused at the beginning, more general geek links.

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Alvin

The Dew Drop returns with daily links tomorrow, 11/03. Having some post-PDC family time this weekend.

Peace!

My wrap-up of Day 1 at Microsoft PDC 2008 just went live on DZone.com’s .NET Zone. Check it out!

UPDATED: 10/24 @ 12:50PM - Added specific times when I can be found at the DZone booth.

I’ll be arriving in Los Angeles for PDC08 in two days. Be sure to catch my daily PDC articles on DZone’s .NET Zone next week! On a related note, if you’re a .NET blogger, and you’re interested in contributing on the .NET Zone as a writer, Zone Leader, or by writing some .NET-related RefCardz, please stop by the DZone booth next week. If you can’t make it to PDC, drop me a line, and I’ll be sure to get you in contact with the right people. The folks at DZone have been an invaluable resource to the Java community for some time, and they are committed to delivering that same kind of value to the .NET community.

Here are some of the places/sessions where you can find me next week. Track me down if you want to say hello, chat, etc… I will keep this post updated as things morph and solidify over the next couple of days.

Sunday

• 11:58AM – Arrive at LAX
• 7:00PM-10:00PM – Party with Palermo

Monday

• 8:30AM-10:30AM – Keynote
• 12:45PM-1:30PM – DZone Booth 1201 @ Partner Expo
• 1:45PM-3:00PM – The Future of C# (Petree Hall CD)
• 6:30PM-9:00PM – Partner Expo Reception

Tuesday

• 8:30AM-12:30PM – Keynotes
• 1:45PM-3:00PM – A Lap Around “Oslo” (Petree Hall CD)
• 3:30PM-4:45PM – “Oslo”: The Language (151)
• 4:00PM-5:30PM – DZone Booth 1201 @ Partner Expo
• 7:00PM-11:00PM – Attendee Party – Universal Studios

Wednesday

• 8:30AM-10:00AM – Keynote
• 12:00PM-12:45PM – Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview (501B)
• 1:15PM-2:30PM – “Oslo”: Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience (151)
• 3:00PM-4:00PM – DZone Booth 1201 @ Partner Expo
• 6:00PM-2:00AM – The Underground (I’m not the waitlist. So, I may be there if I get invited and have time.)

Thursday

• 8:30AM-9:45AM – Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation with Pex (403AB) (If I have time before heading back to LAX.)
• 12:50PM – Depart LAX

See you there!

(BTW – Is anyone else staying at Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza?)

Howdy, folks. As some of you who follow me on Twitter already know, one of my web host’s MySql database servers crashed yesterday afternoon. It happened to be the server hosting this blog’s database. They finally got it back up today, but I guess they don’t perform daily backups because I’m missing three days of data.

I have re-posted the three missing Dew Drop posts, so if you’re seeing duplicates in your RSS reader, that is the reason. Thanks to Dave Ward for suggesting the WP-DBManager plug-in to handle WordPress backups. I’ll be installing and configuring that tonight.

The moral of the story is… don’t count on somebody else to backup your data, even if you thought you were paying them to do so.