Well, at last I got to my hotel and today I'm struggling with adjusting to the time zone and to start making decisions on which sessions to see, but for tomorrows  pre-conference it's easy - I've already signed up for "Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET" with David Callahan, Joe Duffy and Stephen Toub.

The intro text on this topic says:

The leap from single-core to multi-core technology is altering computing as we know it, enabling increased productivity, powerful energy-efficient performance, and leading-edge advanced computing experiences. The good news is that Windows and .NET offer rich support for threading and synchronization to take advantage of these new platforms. This session, presented by David Callahan, Microsoft distinguished engineer, Joe Duffy, author of "Concurrent Programming on Windows” (Addison-Wesley), and Stephen Toub, program manager lead for the Concurrency Development Platform team at Microsoft, will cover a broad range of topics, including mechanisms to create, coordinate, and synchronize among threads; best practices for concurrent libraries and apps; and techniques for improving scalability, including lock-free algorithms. Focus will be on .NET programming, including the next generation of parallel programming support within the Framework, but Windows internals and C++ nuggets will be discussed too.

It'll be a good start of this week to get a update on this because I think that this is going to be a problematic area for the coming years. Well, not for every application but for some and especially for those applications/projects that I want to participate in.

I had a couple of hours to kill during my flight to LA so filled up my iPod with podcasts and packed my most recently bought computer book. I had an audiobook and an ordinary paperback as well as normal people do...

As an funny coincident the book I brought was Robert C. Martins Clean Code and the first podcast I listened to was Robert C. Martin on dotnetrocks.

Well, I can recommend both the book and the podcast, even if I'm not all the way thru the book yet it discuss topics that I care about and he has some good points in there.participate in.

...on the PDC-site. The only problem is that there's 3 or 4 of my pre checked session in each time slot. As usual the hardest part is to choose the sessions to attend.

I just read on Scott Hanselmans blog that Silverlight 2 i released.

And I will definitely attend his talk at PDC this year. Hopefully there will be som time to check this out before I'll get there, on the other hand I've got a 15hr trip there...

I did get an OK from my boss so I've registered for the conference including a pre conference day, booked a hotel and the trip as well.

I'm looking forward to go there because I remember all the new stuff at PDC 2005 and I hope there's going to be the same excitement all over again.