Sam Gentile's Blog

PDC

• PDC09 - A Call to a Dream - Nikhil Kothari finds Roy Ozzie's keynote inspiring. I find this statement spot on, "For a developer, what Microsoft brings is a consistent experience developing for this broad platform with Azure on the back-end, Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight on the front-end, .NET, Visual Studio and Expression as the framework and tooling."
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Ray Ozzie - Coverage from Sasha  
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia - Coverage from Sasha
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic - Coverage from Sasha
• Pluralsight On-Demand v2.0 released today - My friend Aaron announces  next major release of Pluralsight On-Demand!, their.NET Training Library for Microsoft developers --> http://www.pluralsight.com.
• Data + XML + "Oslo" = "It's All Data" - As previously announced, the newly redesigned and expanded Data Developer Center on MSDN! 

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Beta Released - This team either kicks major ass or drinks a ton of coffee-). They have done it again! Phil Haacked says, "Today at PDC09 (the keynote was streaming live), Bob Muglia announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta."
• 30 "Quick Hit" Videos for folks that couldn't join us at PDC - Also on that kick-ass team, Joe Stagner, prepared 30 “Quick Hit” videos on stuff that’s new in the latest wave for ASP.NET Develoeprs. Cool!