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I am a bit behind the curve here but if you have not noticed DDD8 is planed for January in Reading and DDD Scotland in Glasgow for May. Both conferences have open calls for speakers, so get your sessions in quick.

It is time again for Agile Yorkshire. This month the meeting is a usual the second wednesday in the month, but at a different venue - Old Broadcasting House (http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/old-broadcasting-house/) The session is on Kaban For Software Engineering by David Joyce and Peter Camfield from BBC Worldwide, as lean seems all the rage at present this should be very interesting. Hope to see you there

The interest in Visual Studio 2010 is growing, I am presenting at two events this week and have another day of less formal meetings on the subject. The event on Thursday is the [Architecture Forum in the North](Architecture Forum in the North) we are hosting with Microsoft, there are still a few spaces available is if you are interested in the learning more about new techniques and tools why not come along....

I realised I never did another post after my first at the PDC, now what does that tell you? One thing it tells me is that blogs are not they primary news form for events now, it has moved onto [Twitter](RefName – Enter a unique Identifier for the field in TFS. The identifier must have at least one period in the name; for example, Test.Test1.). Though as yet I am still lagging behind on this one, I have an account but no tweets as yet....

So the PDC2009 day 1 keynote is over and what was the story? Well it is more of a vision thing, but then again this is a PDC not a TechEd so what do you expect. For me the two major themes were Dallas – a centralised data service that allows unified access to both public and private via subscriptions. Thus allowing core data being used for any purpose the user requires within the EULA of the data in question....