This is how you tell the marketing guys from the engineers… : )

Private email forwarded by Adam Denning

Because Michael Weinhardt has ported it to Windows Forms 2.0 and ClickOnce, now Wahoo2! is available on your Start menu whether you’re connected to the internet or not. Enjoy!

Sure, sure, Alan Cooper and Anders Hejlsberg are keynoting, but I’m the “with” at this year’s Redmond, WA Patterns & Practices Summit 12/13 - 12/15. I don’t yet know what that means, but maybe if I’m enough “with it” in Redmond, it’ll lead to “with-ness” in Sydney or Oslo (hint, hint… : ).

I decided to go a little meta for this year’s XML DevCon:

10. Top 10 List of Top 10 List of Top 10 List Ideas (a little too meta)

9. Top 10 Reasons that XAML Uses XML (Couldnt figure out a good representation of gradients in EDI)

8. Top 10 Secrets of the CLR (Boxing was almost called Richtering)

7. Top 10 Members of the XML Community Least Likely To Fit In At Burning Man (I don’t want to see Doug Purdy showing up at the ice tent in his thong…)

6. Top 10 Members of the XML Community Most Likely To Fit In At Burning Man (Wasnt Rory born at Burning Man?)

5. Top 10 Similarities Between Team America Characters and XML Community Members (XML: Heck yeah!)

4. Top 10 Reasons That Raw XML Programmers Exhibit More Animal Magnetism Than, Well, Anyone Else (Tim Ewald is really all the evidence we need…)

3. Top 10 New Enterprise Features in Visual Studio Orcas (Clippy: It looks like youre designing an insurance agency schema. Can I help you with that?)

2. Top 10 Reasons Democrats Are More Likely To Be XML Programmers Than Republicans (89% of the angle brackets should not go to the top 1% of programmers!)

1. Top 10 Reasons That The Red Sox Are Going To Kick Butt! (Just pandering to the crowd…)

Chris Sells (with help from Scott Hanselman, Tim Ewald, Matt Powell and Scott Bloom)
Applied XML Developer’s Conference
Friday, October 20th, 2005