It's hard to believe it's been almost 2 years since the last Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, but I was there.  I saw what is now finally beginning to come out.  Avalon, Indigo, Whidbey, Yukon...

Registration for the next PDC opened today.  You can get more details here.

I'm planning to go along with a few of my developer friends.  I don't think my company will pay for it though, so I need to raise the money myself....I figure it'll cost me about $3,000 after everything is said and done (Conference Registration, Flight, Hotel, Rental Car, Food not supplied by MS, etc...)

I need to figure out how to add one of those donation buttons to my blog here, so people can help send me to PDC! 

I'll be kicking my after-hours/weekend consulting into overdrive to raise the extra money I need to go to this conference. 

It's worth every penny, especially if you are working on any projects that are in the early stages.  Going to the last one definitely made me think about projects I was working on a little differently.