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So, here we are, one day before the real thing begins! The day starts off with some pre-conf sessions arranged by the EMEA@MIX team. We get a barrage of WPF demos (some really cool and impressive stuff, including an application for golfers, one for a fashion channel and one for the London Underground – Panos has more details ), followed by brunch (good thing, cause everyone was hungry!). We then get a nice session on U ser e X perience, with big focus on SilverLight , followed by a session on Windows Live! and

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We finally arrived in Las Vegas about 6 hours ago (21:30-ish local time). By the time we got our suitcases, hopped on the MIX07 bus that drove us to the hotel and checked in, it was 23:30! The hotel, by the way, is very impressive. First of all, it's huge ! All of the rooms are suites (around 70m 2 each) and it's got a ton of stuff inside, from a huge casino, to a Madame Tussaud museum, a number of shows, the halls where MIX07 will take place and a ton of other stuff. You probably need about 20 mins to walk

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A couple of weeks ago, Panos found out that IBM was hosting an event on SOA and forwarded it to me. I thought it would be interesting to see what IBM has to say on the subject, so I registered, and went. Overall, the event was well organized (apart from a few sound problems they had in the beginning). The schedule was almost on track (for Greek standards, I mean!) and the food was great! I knew quite a few of the attendees there. In fact, one of them said " I think Patrick knows more people here than IBM does!

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This Saturday is going to be tough. We're leaving for MIX07 and I just calculated exactly how long our flight will be. Here it is, for your personal viewing pleasure: Yes, that's right! Twenty three hours and thirty one minutes. I don't think I've ever done that before! After we recover from this flight, Panos and myself are going to be blogging like crazy from there, so get ready! We're taking along digital cameras and camcorders, as well as our laptops and PDAs. We've got an account on Soapbox for our videos,

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You're sitting in an airport, patiently waiting for your flight to board and, all of a sudden, Nick Skyscrapr , the famous enterprise architect sits right next to you. Being extremely friendly, he introduces himself to you and asks you what you do – so you say "I… well… I am an architect". "Perfect", he says, "Let's talk SOA!" Are you ready for this discussion? Do you have an opinion? Do you know who the players in the SOA field are? Are you sure you know who the players are? ;) Macehiter Ward-Dutton , a specialist

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Not really related to VSTS or any other Microsoft technologies, I recently found out about a company called Steorn , who claim that their technology, " Orbo ", can produce energy that doesn't need any external sources , produces no emissions and does so indefinitely . This is the sort of thing that makes you say "yeah, right – you missed April fools by 12 days", as it violates the first law of thermodynamics , but these guys are serious about it. As you might expect, the scientific community is very skeptical

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In the next edition of Visual Studio, codenamed "Orcas", the unit testing functionality, currently available only with the Team Editions of the product, will be available in the Professional edition as well. Creating and running database unit tests will remain in the Team Editions. Doing something like this makes sense, once you understand our long-term strategy for Visual Studio Team System. The idea is simple: we will keep adding value to all our Visual Studio editions in the years to come. Some of the functionality,

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The last line of my previous blog post mentioned a link where you can find a VSTS information goldmine! A number of people pointed out that information this significant needs to be in a post of its own, so here's a list of things you can find in our new, prescriptive guidance for VSTS (repost from J.D. Meier's Blog): Explained: Branching in Team Foundation Server Explained - Structuring Your Solutions and Projects in Source Control with Team Foundation Server How To: Perform a Baseless Merge in Team Foundation

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