{"id":9633,"date":"2011-09-15T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/09\/15\/some-preliminary-notes-from-build-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:00:01","slug":"some-preliminary-notes-from-build-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110915-01\/?p=9633","title":{"rendered":"Some preliminary notes from \/\/build\/ 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody, I&#8217;m down at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildwindows.com\/\">\/\/build\/<\/a> conference. (The extra slash is to keep the d from falling over.) I&#8217;m not speaking this year, but you can find me in the Apps area of the Expo room today until 3:30pm (except lunchtime), and Friday morning before lunch. I&#8217;ll also be at Ask the Experts tonight.\n There are so many great sessions to choose from. The one I would attend if I weren&#8217;t working that time slot would be <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/events\/BUILD\/BUILD2011\/APP-206T\"> Bring apps to life with Metro style animations in HTML5<\/a>. Instead, I&#8217;ll probably go to <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/events\/BUILD\/BUILD2011\/APP-162T\"> Building high performance Metro style apps using HTML5<\/a>. Fortunately, the sessions are being recorded, so I can catch up later.\n (At PDC 2008, I learned of a class of conference attendee known as the <i>overflow vulture<\/i>. These people decide which sessions to attend by looking for the ones that are close to filling up, on the theory that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jdEGnAcAlX4\">500 people can&#8217;t be wrong<\/a>.&#8221; These people often fail to take into account the room size. A talk in a 200-person room which fills up is not necessarily more popular than a talk in a 500-person room which doesn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p> Here are my observations so far: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the airport, I heard a page for &#8220;Katy Perry&#8221;.     Normally,     my reaction would be, &#8220;Oh, that poor woman has the same name     as the singer.&#8221;     But since I&#8217;m in Los Angeles,     I have to give consideration to the possibility     that it really is the singer. <\/li>\n<li>On the ride from the airport to the hotel,     I observed part of a police car chase,     or at least two police cars rushing through traffic with lights on.     Welcome to Los Angeles. <\/li>\n<li>I decided to walk from my hotel to the convention center     rather than taking the shuttle bus.     Along the way, I spotted a bus coming down the street.     The driver parked the bus in the right-hand lane     (a lane which is normally used for <i>driving<\/i>),     got off,     and walked into the Carl&#8217;s Jr.     I took a peek inside, and he was at the counter ordering breakfast.     I guess he figured the bus wouldn&#8217;t fit in the drive-through.     Welcome to Los Angeles. <\/li>\n<li>I thought it would have been funny if Michael Anguilo had said,     &#8220;And we&#8217;re making these devices available to attendees for     just $500. [beat] Just kidding.     <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows\/b\/bloggingwindows\/archive\/2011\/09\/13\/more-buzz-from-build-developers-get-their-devices.aspx\">     You&#8217;re each getting one for free<\/a>.&#8221;     Or pulled an Oprah. &#8220;Everybody, look under your chair!     Ha-ha, made you look!&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>You spend a good amount of time listening to the music     that plays before the keynote begins.     Imagine having that as your job.     &#8220;I write music for conferences.     My music is peppy, but not too much;     hopeful, but with a little bit of attitude.     And not so good you want to dance to it.     And I have to write a dozen different versions,     each one exactly fifteen seconds longer than the previous one.     Oh, and it needs to segue into a higher-energy version     when the speaker arrives on stage.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>The City National Grove at Anaheim is not a city,     not national, and not a grove.     I do concede, however that it is in Anaheim. <\/li>\n<li>If you look closely at the \/\/build\/ logo, you&#8217;ll also     notice that the second slash has partially decapitated     the b.     I tried reproducing the effect here, but my CSS-fu isn&#8217;t     powerful enough. <\/li>\n<li><b>Bonus<\/b>:     The hotel I&#8217;m staying at is hosting a conference     on hotel conference security.     I wonder who provides security for that conference. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody, I&#8217;m down at the \/\/build\/ conference. (The extra slash is to keep the d from falling over.) I&#8217;m not speaking this year, but you can find me in the Apps area of the Expo room today until 3:30pm (except lunchtime), and Friday morning before lunch. I&#8217;ll also be at Ask the Experts tonight. [&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":[103],"class_list":["post-9633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Hey everybody, I&#8217;m down at the \/\/build\/ conference. (The extra slash is to keep the d from falling over.) I&#8217;m not speaking this year, but you can find me in the Apps area of the Expo room today until 3:30pm (except lunchtime), and Friday morning before lunch. I&#8217;ll also be at Ask the Experts tonight. 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