I woke up really early in the morning at 5:30 AM. I used to sleep at this time, but it was fun waking up really early. Took a shower and got ready to leave for PDC 2005. Reached at Hotel Pearl Continental, where PDC is held at about 8:15 AM. Went to Ball Room A. The opening ceremony started at 9 AM. Rahat Kazmi was great as always. Mr. Jawwad Rehman gave an opening speech followed by a Key Note by the great Rafal, who is considered a .NET Legend. Its always great to hear him talking all good things about .NET and its future. There was other speeches as well after Rafal which were really boring and nothing to do with the developers. They just talked blindly about the IT in pakistan and its progress. Man who wanna hear such boring people. Our class lectures were considered the most boring stuff that any student wanted to hear. But after attending the opening ceremony of PDC, my thoughts are changed now. I think I can proudly take lectures from now on... hehee... Well anyways after a long opening session the tea break finally announed which was somewhat considered a relief for everyone. Went for the tea and to revive my senses. I met many people during the break, it was a good reunion with everyone after a long time. The break was gonna over, so we finished our tea in a hurry and went to attend the first session by AddulmaleK Kemmou on "Overview on ASP.NET 2.0."

This session was somewhat not upto my expectations. I already worked a little on ASP.NET 2 and know almost everything he told us. I learned nothing new in this session and was completely dissapointed. This was another boring session from the morning and I thought I would better stay at home and learn some new stuffs or start my new writing assignment. Well anyways I opened up the agenda and found that the next session of my interest is on "Caching in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005" by "Stephen Forte."

After a very bad morning, I got to learn something good in the afternoon. Stephen is good, infact great as always. He is so energetic and his sessions are so lively that no one wanna miss. The room was full of people and some unlucky one's who came late were unable to find seats and were standing at the back. It was my first experience attending his session. His throwed a lot of jokes during his session, targeting mostly Microsoft, which is great. Man it is so good to make fun of Microsoft, Ha. He not only told us how to do caching at server level in .NET Framework 2 but surprisingly in Framework 1.1, which is somewhat beyond my expectation. He believe that people should master their skills in existing technology and then go furthur to explore the new stuffs that are still in beta and crash all the time. He showed us some really cool demos. After attending this session, I decided to attend his next session on XQeury in SQL Server 2005.

O God! my MSN is flodded with messages, donno when it signed itself. Thats the bad part of always being online. The reason why I prefer Orkut over IM for offline messages. Atleast its less distracting, and I don't have to reply at the moment. Its been long since I talked on MSN, I think it will take sometime to answer all these people who must be mad at me!.. heheh.. Ok this is due and will definately gonna come back and post more details on remaining sessions of PDC. So stay tuned for more !!