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I recently took the plunge and upgraded my 64 bit desktop from Vista to Windows 7 RC and for the most part I’ve been very happy with it. So far the only compatibility issues I’ve had were with some CD / DVD mounting tools and Live Mesh. I quickly realized how much I’ve come to rely on Live...
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Looking to show off your skills in building cloud applications using either .NET or PHP? Like to make a little $$ while you are at it. Well, if you bring your A game, you just might have a shot in the new developer competition that Microsoft is running. You can check out the details...
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A friend of mine, Jon Helmberger , posted on this Facebook status the other day a great quote which really pointed out how some people use technology that is trendy, and not necessarily the most appropriate technology. “If RSS had a cooler name we wouldn't have shenanigans like this...” with...
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Recently, Steven Martin at Microsoft talked about a cloud manifesto that would presumably define some agreement around open standards for interoperability in the “cloud”. Aside from all of the politics and secrecy, I’m wondering what this would actually look like. I’m all for open standards...
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If you are in the local area, there is a pretty cool event coming to town on May 8th. From Jeff Brand : Join us for a special event co-sponsored by the .NET User Group & Silverlight User Group. This month we’re bringing highlights from the MIX09 conference to you!! You’ll get detailed information...
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Every now and then a simple thing comes along that really makes me stand up and say, that was a good idea. Microsoft Research has taken the fact that almost everyone has a phone with a camera on it these days and turned that into something MUCH more useful than taking pictures of your friends and family...
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I'm excited to announce that we have now listed our new "Dublin" course on the website . This will be a three day course where we dive in to taking advantage of the hosting features found in the new application server being developed at Microsoft. If you are interested in finding out how...
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I was busy last week with two local presentations. The first was on the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the WCF LOB Adapter SDK at the Real World SOA Road Show. This was a fun show and it was nice to see Jon Flanders and Michael Woods who did a talk on "Oslo" and "M". I've posted my...
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I'm happy to be giving a talk at the upcoming Twin Cities .NET User Group on December 4 at the Microsoft office. I'll be talking about the Microsoft .NET Services component within the newly announced Azure Services Platform. I'm going to cover the Service Bus, Workflow Service and Access...
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For those of you in the Twin Cities area that missed the PDC , don't fret, we've got the highlights for you. The MSDN Developer Conference is coming to Minneapolis on Jan 13 with a full day of Azure , WPF/Silverlight, and coverage of "Oslo" and VS 2010. I'll be talking on one of...
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Today we got to see Windows 7 (the first time for me and many others) which had some cool features in the user experience around the taskbar and notification area. There are also new features around quickly jumping to certain documents and applications, managing window layouts, and managing documents...
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I sat in on a session today that showed off the "Geneva" set of identity tools. I have to say that the presentation was very well done as it showed how easy it was to take a normal ASP.NET application that was using .NET constructs like IsInRole and PrincipalPermission to do dynamic display...
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Ray Ozzie set the stage by talking about how cloud computing is all about moving to the next level of web applications and services that need to reach your customers. The traditional data center model takes a lot of resources to manage all of the data centers, servers, etc. involving dealing with resources...
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I had the pleasure of presenting at both the Minneapolis and Omaha Heartland Developers Conference this year. This is a great conference in the central region where national and regional speakers participate to create a great conference offering. I did a presentation on BizTalk Services in both cities...
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I had a great time this week presenting two sessions at the Minnesota Developers Conference . For those of you who attended, I've posted the materials from my talk on LINQ as well as the materials for the ADO.NET Data Services talk. I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did! You can get the slides...