Techdays 2008 is getting close, and this year I won't miss it. These are the sessions I've chosen:

• MOB02 Sync Framework: Optimizações em Cenários Online, Melhorias em Cenários Offline e de Roaming e Colaborações entre Dispositivos, Serviços e Aplicações
• DEV01 LINQ; LINQ to XML; LINQ to SQL
• VST04 THE AGILE PATH - Scrum e Desenvolvimento Ágil com Team System
• DEV06 ADO.NET Entity Framework e LINQ To Entities
• VST10 CMMI e Team System
• ARC01 Software + Services: The Convergence of SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0
• ARC03 OBAs no Mundo Real: o Papel da Arquitectura e Aplicações "Situation-Aware"
• WEB01 Silverlight 2.0: Part 1/2 – The introduction
• WEB02 Silverlight 2.0: Part 2/2 – Putting it to work.
• DEV03 Parallel Extensions para a Plataforma .NET 3.5
• DEV09 Enterprise Library 4: Construção de Aplicações Extensíveis através de Dependency Injection
• ARC08 Software Factories na Prática: Construíndo uma Aplicação Tipo Smart Client
• WEB04 MVC Framework on Future ASP.NET

See you there.

As stated in this forum post by Roman Ormandym, CEO, Caligari "has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation". Caligari team will be working with Virtual Earth team which is in the process of building out an immersive 3D Web experience.

I wonder what Truespace will become in Microsoft World... Expression Blend 3D ? We'll see.

This weekend I’ve decided to give windows home server a try. Grabbed an installation DVD, a spare machine I had at home (which, by the way, didn’t run for 1 ½ year now) and here we go.

Not a pleasant experience, I must confess. I didn’t have (or didn’t want to look for) a floppy disk drive available. No problem! We are in 2008, flash drives are fully supported by now, and this beautiful “piece of software” will “eat” its drivers from a flash drive. Not exactly!
Error after error stating that the drivers could not be loaded, and that Windows Setup had copied it to the wrong place (oops, that was not a message from setup, but it did happen) I managed to get a spare floppy drive, a beautiful 12 years old 3.5” High Density floppy drive (I wonder if windows home server setup would prefer a Low Density, or event a double sided single density 5.25” drive), and here we go.

Now, after plugging the floppy drive and instruct setup to copy drivers from a floppy disk (yes, I managed to find one) windows is installing, and I can finally try Windows Home Server.

I intend to post a tutorial, for people trying to install WHS in a fairly new computer (<10 years) after and if, I can complete this setup.

Mike Nash announced on the windows vista team blog the RTM of Windows vista SP1.

SP1 has great performance enhancements over RTM. So be sure to check it out.

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