Speaking at the PDC? Going to the PDC? Missing out on the PDC? Check out the PDC Bloggers site, which should keep you neck deep in news (but if you're not there, you're still missing a massive love fest... : ).
Does anyone have any PDC or post-PDC plans for books, articles, conference talks, user groups, web sites, blogs, etc. on the topic of Longhorn? If so, please email me (csells@microsoft.com) so that I can compose a list for the MSDN Longhorn Developer's Center web site. Thanks!
Don's glad that the PDC conference tracks and breakout sessions have been posted so that he doesn't have to be the first to say "indigo" in public. I'm similarly happy about no longer worrying about whether I'll inadvertently say "avalon" where I'm not supposed to. : )
Dr. James McCaffrey provides a nice introduction to “permutations” along with some .NET to generate them. He further goes on to use permutations for security purposes, but that's not all they're good for.