Yes, i'm still alive. I managed to survive TechDays 2008, but i've been a bit busy lately. I'll be back with some content during May, but for now, just let me get my stuff on track.

Techdays 2008 is getting close, and this year I won't miss it. These are the sessions I've chosen:

• MOB02 Sync Framework: Optimizações em Cenários Online, Melhorias em Cenários Offline e de Roaming e Colaborações entre Dispositivos, Serviços e Aplicações
• DEV01 LINQ; LINQ to XML; LINQ to SQL
• VST04 THE AGILE PATH - Scrum e Desenvolvimento Ágil com Team System
• DEV06 ADO.NET Entity Framework e LINQ To Entities
• VST10 CMMI e Team System
• ARC01 Software + Services: The Convergence of SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0
• ARC03 OBAs no Mundo Real: o Papel da Arquitectura e Aplicações "Situation-Aware"
• WEB01 Silverlight 2.0: Part 1/2 – The introduction
• WEB02 Silverlight 2.0: Part 2/2 – Putting it to work.
• DEV03 Parallel Extensions para a Plataforma .NET 3.5
• DEV09 Enterprise Library 4: Construção de Aplicações Extensíveis através de Dependency Injection
• ARC08 Software Factories na Prática: Construíndo uma Aplicação Tipo Smart Client
• WEB04 MVC Framework on Future ASP.NET

See you there.

As stated in this forum post by Roman Ormandym, CEO, Caligari "has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation". Caligari team will be working with Virtual Earth team which is in the process of building out an immersive 3D Web experience.

I wonder what Truespace will become in Microsoft World... Expression Blend 3D ? We'll see.

Mike Nash announced on the windows vista team blog the RTM of Windows vista SP1.

SP1 has great performance enhancements over RTM. So be sure to check it out.

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