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我知道你和我可能都还没有参加过PDC,当然如果10月份我能完成我的任务,也许我的老板愿意出钱让我去,不过,你也知道这是一个不错的愿望J
“生命的精彩之至,是可以有许多期待,所以谢谢你。”—想不到我也可以说出这么好的词语,直至今天我在荣耀的一篇旧做中看到自己的回复,觉得这句话值得琢磨J
同样今天也看到Don
Box的WebLog,说起了PDC,我摘录了下来,非常羡慕,不是Don
Box的成就而是他的经历,每个公司每个人的身边都会有这样一群有经历和历史的人,我想他们都是我们羡慕的人,都是我们的老师,都是可以给我们期待的人。
记得在昨天同事的告别晚餐上,我们曾谈论起有关70年代的问题,因为我们出生如此的相仿—1970~1978年之间。我们会说我们没有经历文化大革命,我们没有经历六四;我们不像80年代这么幸福,我们无法像80年代这么新新人类。说着说着我的思绪回到了许知远的《生于70年代》
“70年代的人所体验到新的生活方式与前所未有的展现自己的机会,是互联网技术与插有一片柠檬的Corona啤酒。。。但是很快,我们发现这种豪情壮志隐含着怎样的脆弱。因为出生在80年代以后的人在此方面占据着更绝对的优势,他们连“小豆冰棍”的历史也不需要知道,他们尚未成熟就会使用ICQ。他们甚至连打倒上一代的欲望都没有,因为事实已经给了他们足够的证明。
我们可以说1970年至1974年之间,他们有着类似的成长,更相像于60年代的人,被一种残存的理想主义和集体主义气质所包围着。而1974-1978年之间,变裂已经出现,出身于这四年间的人,或许是真正的个体精神觉醒的一代,他们受惠于计划生育的政策,在高中时触摸着信息技术的最初萌芽。而1978年之后,几乎已经完全融入消费时代之中。
所有的人都受骗了,包括70年代人自己。我们根本没有看到一代人的崛起,他们只不过是恰好生于那十年间,他们兴趣各异,并且在内心深处相互不屑,缺乏共同的价值体系。我们没有体验过相同的东西,没有共同创制什么,也没有破坏什么,他们不过是年龄界限的巧合。
最终,我又想回到最初引用到罗森堡的著名论调。生于70年代的人,如果真的试图想证明自己的存在的话,那么必须担负起时代变革的重任。因为他们已经丧失了和80年代一起轻飘飞扬的与生俱来的能力,他们必须承接起联结历史断裂的任务。否则,他们只能从历史的版图中消失”
许知远属于论点相当集中或强烈的那一种,所以尽管我不完全同意他的论点,但其一我对他描述的70年代非常有印象,其二有同感的是我也认为这10年是非常奇特的10年,如他说的有断裂或是说70年代出于两个非常不同时代的夹缝中。
今天恰巧看到Don
Box的Post,想起了1992-2001的这些日子,也许不仅对于PDC,对于Java,对于.NET,对于许多技术和往事也就有了莫名的想法。这种感觉非常像很多时候我都会在网上由一个网页飘向另一个网页,由一个链接到另一个网页一样,思绪也一样的流淌和不断切换,静态阅读和动态思考之间的不断切换而带来的一种平静和奇特感觉。有的人在漂流中体验到这样的感觉;有的人在摄影的片断中体验到这样的感觉,也有的人在行驶的列车上体验到;也有的人在漂泊的旅游中体验到。。。而我是在Internet上体验到的,和朋友在MSN上谈起时,他们说这种体验是虚拟的,不真实的;但也许对于我来说,这种感觉是真实的,是能带来平静的-感觉。
当然这是九月最后一篇,所以要先祝许许多多的人,国庆快乐!--真的要快乐J
Windows
NT PDC - San Francisco 1992
This was the first PDC I was aware of. I was a grad student
lamenting the sorry state of circa-1992 UNIX and ran across
the announcement on some comp.* USENET group. I decided to
buy a PC to see what the fuss was about. I bought a copy of
MSC7 which included PWB, CODEVIEW, and the Windows SDK.
Fortunately, I got a beta of NT + the Win32SDK before I
actually started writing code (you could get the beta for
$30 back then).
Chicago
PDC - Anaheim 1993
This was the last PDC I didn't attend, but I did send my pal
from DM, Andrew Harrison. Andrew brought back the goodies,
including the
Jumpstart OLE CD which included a build of Distributed COM
for NT 3.1. SaraW tells a great story about this
CD - apparently to get it to work, you needed some file that
was missing from the redist. Of the 5000 attendees who got
the CD, a surprisingly small number of people asked for the
file.
"Building Internet Applications" PDC - San Francisco 1996
This was my first PDC. I gave (with George Shepherd) a
pre-conference tutorial on COM. I met Jeff Richter at that
event (we ate at New Delhi on Ellis). This was the Jobs/Case
PDC where Microsoft announced that it had signed a deal with
Sun to support Java. This is also the PDC that unleashed the
term "ActiveX…"
"Renaissance of Distributed Computing" PDC - Long Beach 1996
…which begat the "Active Platform," the focus of the
Long Beach PDC. Let's see, NT5, MTS, ASP, AD, and DHTML. I
gave the morning pre-con on COM, followed by
Jim Gray and
Andreas Reuter doing the afternoon on TP. The highlight
was easily Pat Helland's Barbarian story in his general
session with Greg Hope - think
St. Crispin's Day but for geeks. OK, so the highlight
was actually meeting
Gudge at the DM booth - we had a nice chat about why
cross-apartment aggregation didn't work and it was love at
first sight.
COM+
PDC - San Diego 1997
The COM+ vision was based on two pieces: COM+ Services and
the COM+ Runtime. The former morphed into COM+ as
it appeared in Win2K. The latter was the CLR which shipped 2
years later. Imagine Charlie Kindel and Mary
Kirtland proclaiming the end of GUIDs, HRESULT,
DllGetClassObject and the like. Oh the horror :-) Also
imagine Nat Brown and Dave Stutz demoing the managed C++
compiler and cross-language inheritance. Apparently
one of the CDs actually contained the MC++ compiler,
but alas, I never got my CDs…
Yet
Another NT5 PDC - Denver 1998
This one is a blur - no new technology that I can remember.
Rather, this was PDC #3 for NT5 combined with the "there is
no COM+ Runtime for a while" message.
The
.NET PDC - Orlando 2000
The best PDC since 1996. CLR, ASP.NET, XML Web Services,
VS.NET, XLang, you name it. Almost too much technology for
one PDC. For me, this PDC marked the beginning of the
turnaround for Microsoft's relationship with the developer
community.
The Hailstorm PDC - Los Angeles 2001
Of all the PDC's I've attended, this one had the best food.
The trip to Cielito Linda for taquitos was especially
memorable.
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