After much difficulty, I’m finally in LA; it’s great to see all the excitement at the convention center.

I managed to miss all the interesting keynotes, and arrived at about 7pm in time to visit the exposition center and talk to a few people at the Avalon booth.

So what do I do in Avalon? Up until very recently (more about this later), I was the Program Manager for Avalon’s Layout API. I was working on everything from the Layout system and the functions which drive layout, to the layouts which developers will use to display everything from a dialog box to a 100 page document.

My role will be shifting in the future to concentrate more on Longhorn’s document story (of course, I’ll still have a role in the rest of Avalon’s layout API).