{"id":33683,"date":"2005-10-20T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/20\/the-things-in-the-pdc-2005-introductory-video\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T10:00:12","slug":"the-things-in-the-pdc-2005-introductory-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051020-12\/?p=33683","title":{"rendered":"The things in the PDC 2005 introductory video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remarked earlier that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/08\/26\/456719.aspx\"> the creative director for the PDC rummaged through our offices looking for stuff<\/a> which was to be used in the opening PDC video to decorate a developer&#8217;s cubicle. It all flashed by really quickly, but if you were paying attention, you might have been able to make out the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\/~knuth\/taocp.html\">The Art of Computer Programming<\/a><\/i> leaning against the tower. <\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mspress\/books\/5957.asp\">Writing Secure Code<\/a><\/i> on the desk. <\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=2-0201100886-1\">Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools<\/a><\/i>,     better known as &#8220;The Red Dragon Book&#8221;, being used as a monitor stand! <\/li>\n<li>Platters from a broken hard drive used as a decoration. <\/li>\n<li>My letter of appreciation on the wall next to the whiteboard. <\/li>\n<li>A forged diploma with my name on it,     also on the wall next to the whiteboard. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> One thing you won&#8217;t find in the developer&#8217;s cubicle, however, is a can of soda. That&#8217;s because none of the soda companies would give permission for their product to appear in this video. <\/p>\n<p> Later in the video, several pages from the web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastingmenu.com\"> tastingmenu.com<\/a> are flashed across the screen. Puzzle: Why was this site chosen? <\/p>\n<p> (For legal reasons, I can&#8217;t provide a link to the video. Any comments that claim to include a link to the video will be deleted, sorry.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remarked earlier that the creative director for the PDC rummaged through our offices looking for stuff which was to be used in the opening PDC video to decorate a developer&#8217;s cubicle. It all flashed by really quickly, but if you were paying attention, you might have been able to make out the following: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-33683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I remarked earlier that the creative director for the PDC rummaged through our offices looking for stuff which was to be used in the opening PDC video to decorate a developer&#8217;s cubicle. It all flashed by really quickly, but if you were paying attention, you might have been able to make out the following: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}