---
title: "Blog'n your way to the PDC - A reality in the works"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/blogn-your-way-to-the-pdc-a-reality-in-the-works.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/blogn-your-way-to-the-pdc-a-reality-in-the-works.html"
published: "2005-06-20T21:53:00"
updated: "2005-06-20T21:53:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Community"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Wanna go to the PDC? For free? If you have a blog or are in the mood to write a little software - you should really really check this out then . All I can say is that very soon you'll see my own entry for this contest.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Blog'n your way to the PDC - A reality in the works

By Roy Osherove June 20, 2005 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 20, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Wanna go to the PDC?

For free?

If you have a blog or are in the mood to write a little software - you should really really [check this out then](http://channel9.msdn.com/PDC). All I can say is that very soon you'll see my own entry for this contest. Like I'm gonna pass on such an opportunity, pfft.

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

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- Jun 20, 2005

    ### [The Regex Challenge: Blogn' my way to the PDC](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/the-regex-challenge-blogn-my-way-to-the-pdc.html)

- Jun 20, 2005

    ### [Geeky Podcasts list](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/geeky-podcasts-list.html)

- Jun 19, 2005

    ### [A new way to fight blog trackback spam?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/19/a-new-way-to-fight-blog-trackback-spam.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/