At 4:13:02pm, the Applied XML Developer’s Conference has sold out (again). Eric Hayes, the VP of Development from You Software, Inc. was the last lucky attendee. Welcome, Eric!

Wahoo!

As is always the case, tons of things are coming together at the last moment for the 5th DevCon:

• Received Tim Ewald’s flight arrangements so that I can pick him up on the way to the conference
• Don “XML” is going to make sure that Tim Bray gets to the Portland Nerd Dinner and to the conference in time for his keynote address
• T-shirts on their way
• Proceedings printed and in my garage
• Maps printed so that I can find my way (haven’t been there in years and years)
• Brothers Sells excited about the extra days off from school so that they can hang at the Skamania Lodge (although I’m pretty sure they’re expecting to be able to play their Gameboys the entire time : )
• Microphones, podium, projector and project screens arranged for speakers
• Wireless Internet access and power arranged for attendees (and speakers)
• All but a handful of seats filled in our expanded space (8 seats left)
• Rory giving away a free conference registration on his site

Wahoo!

Tim wonders whether he should let the ’softies attending and speaking at the Applied XML Developer’s Conference have it or not. I say, give us both barrels, Tim!

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Don sent his new talk abstract my way this morning:

″WS-Why? This talk will make sense of why various WS-* specs came to life and which ones every developer should ignore. Naturally, the size of this set is non-zero, however, it is not the entire universe. Hopefully, the audience will be left with a mental model for what to ignore going forward as the WS-* machine continues to move forward.”

Personally, I’ve always wondered about the history of the avalanche of WS-* specs and to hear it from an irreverent horse’s mouth should be tons o’ fun.

Rory is giving away one seat to the Applied XML Developer’s Conference. He’s asking three questions before Friday and drawing from anyone that can answer all three. Question 1 and question 2 have already been posted.

There are still a hand full of seats left if you’re like to purchase one.

Here. If you're going to be checking into the Skamania Lodge for the DevCon by 7pm on Tuesday, 10/19, please join us for the Anticipation Reception for all attendees and speakers. If you decide to hang with the Portland Nerd Dinner crowd instead that night, I'll understand. : )

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Don got a last minute bug to write on a completely different topic. I just got the slides this morning and they’re different than anything I’ve ever seen from Don (which is saying a lot). The new title of the talk is “ws-islands” and while I have no abstract as yet, I’m still very much looking forward to the talk for the psychedelic effects of the slides alone (I asked him to be careful not to cause seizures in the audience).

There are just a few seats left, so register now or be prepared to sit this one out.

I can't get Sam to reply to my emails, so I'm hoping he'll see this post: Sam, can I get the status of your DevCon slides? They were due Monday. Thank you.