Microsoft Tech ed 2010 was a great success.
Infact Most of such conferences always provide a great place to meet other technology enthusiasts and ofcourse,whats in the pipeline for future products of a company or field..
And yet again,MS Tech ed India is coming on 23-25 march in Banglore,India.Well,the place is ofcourse right suited for any IT/Computing conference.After all,Its Silicon Valley of India..
From Last year.I remember a session by Harish about “Building pure client side apps with Jquery and Microsoft Ajax .”
Here’s the video:
http://live.viasilverlight.com/TechEdOnDemand/Breakouts/TheWebSimplified1/Session4/AjaxClientSideApps.wmv
At that time only,I got to know that jquery is so easy to use for ajax or client side templating.Though I prefer jquery over Microsoft Ajax many folds.UpdatePanel is Dead for sure in my view.
I believe,Web forms will be dead sooner or later with ASP.Net MVC gaining share many folds.(TODO:Learn MVC).
The new standard is surely:JQUERY .
Between,Last years videos and ppt’s are available to browse and download:
http://microsoftteched.in/2010/downloads.aspx
After going through Tech Ad 2011 session agendas : http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2011/agenda.aspx
Few of my personal choices to watch would be:
Day 1: a) Identity And Access Control in the Cloud
b)Windows 7 at Home:Digitizing your Home.(Sounds cool.)
c) And ofcourse,Jquery and MS ajax(Lets see if MS can do something that’s not already happening with their version Of Ajax)..
Day 2: a) Lap Around Silverlight 5 and Html 5 as I have heard some hot talks that html5 will kill Silverlight,(I don’t see it in near future though).
b) Html 5 more than “Html 5”…Google will be seeing this one.
Day3: a) Cross Browser applications in Azure
b)VS 2010 sessions of automated testing azure apps etc.
Windows Phone 7 sessions will surely be of more interest now after MS-Nokia Deal.
Though,Personally,I would want atleast some worth of sessions on MS future in Robotics,AI.Perhaps I am looking at wrong place..(When is PDC?)
And Since,Bill Gates consider Robotics as the next big thing,
Refer this one : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/A_Robot_in_Every_Home.pdf
I am sure,they wont loose this new hot spot to competitors, like how google rules in Online Search now.Robotics and AI will surely provide a big battlefield for future.See,What IBM is doing with IBM Watson.
OR see this, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218083711.htm
this is cool only if you can control your mind.Atleast,I’ll prefer regular driving (I would devote my mind seeing people,places which we see on road).thats what jouney makes “cool”.:P.
