MicrosoftPDC.com – Words from the Lead Developer

Jon Galloway - Looking back at MicrosoftPDC.com (from the inside)

“I had the privilege of working on the MicrosoftPDC.com website as lead developer for the past several months. The process hasn’t been kind to my blogging schedule lately, but the experience definitely taught me quite a bit: working with the top-notch Microsoft developer evangelism team, setting up a site for maximum flexibility, setting up the Silverlight experience, and troubleshooting some interesting issues during the conference. I’m going to run through several of these at a high level and may dig into some of these in more detail later (so comment if you want to hear more about something).

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Jon provides a great write up for a site I, and thousands of my closest friends, were all over for a number of days and weeks. It’s officially cool to get some of the behind the scenes views into the work he and the team put into it.

That must have been an exciting, and kind of scary, project. Scary? Whenever, as a dev, you build something for other dev’s, that can be a scary feeling. Who else do we really want professional approval from, besides our peers in the dev space? (yeah, yeah… we want approval from our users, friends, family, etc… but you get the idea) So putting yourself, through your work, out there directly in front of other dev’s… well I know I would be stressing about it… lol

Nice work Jon (and team)!

 

Oh yeah, you asked for suggestions? What would be cool is an “official” API to the data (say via REST?). That way other people could mash-up the data in new and exciting ways (like say providing alternate view of the videos and session lists… ;)