Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Senior Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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No, Like Steve, I'm not going to PDC. I'm pretty sad about that, but I'll save you from the details.
However, Walter Hsueh, a Lead Developer on the Hotmail Frontdoor team is giving a talk about Hotmail and Atlas. I've seen the deck and it's a great talk. Walter is a major driving force in our FireAnt Architecture for Kahuna, and in collaborating with the ASP.NET Team in Atlas. He probably has more experience than anyone else in the company building a massive scale AJAX application in .NET.
Here are the details on the talk he is giving. If you are interested in AJAX, Hotmail, or Atlas I strongly suggest you attend.
PRSL02 - Case Study: How Hotmail Used Atlas and ASP.NET to Build a Great User Experience September 14, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM152/153 (Hall F)Walter Hsueh Microsoft's Hotmail web application team is developing the successor to Hotmail: a modern webmail experience focused on safety, simplicity, and speed. We will walk you through the scale and performance requirements of the Internet's largest distributed webmail application and show you how building on ASP.NET and Atlas technologies provides the right solution for the problem space. Learn from our experiences and design patterns of how we leveraged the "Atlas" programming model and "Atlas" components to build rich, interactive Web applications.
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