The Naked Flame

Wow, I have seriously neglected this site. I guess my experiments with sleep hacking have taken their toll on my consistency.

Anyway, today I fly up to the Gold Coast for tech.ed Australia, which starts tomorrow. Really looking forward to the experience, although I hope I will be a little better prepared for the onslaught than I was last year.

I hope to be able to keep up some form of blogging schedule from the event, if for no other reason than to keep a log of what I found interesting there.

I have specifically been learning WPF so that I can catch a few sessions on that too. Impressive technology. Also looking forward to find out whether the complimentary Visual Studio is a full version or if it expires. *fingers crossed*

I love online dev support tools for bug tracking and source repositories... but I have some misgivings about trusting them as my sole store of important data.

I wish there were a set of general protocols that sites could support beyond RSS to make moving data both to and from such sites easier. I'd love to automatically keep a backup copy of all data on my local machine and just use the website as an online up-all-the-time proxy for my data.