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Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 3)
KYN04 Research in the 21st Century The keynote from Microsoft Research. While it's all kind of interesting, I'd draw your attention to these demos: Skip to 35' : Sensors and green IT. Monitoring the environment to understand, predict and improve energy usage Skip to 64' : World Wide Telescope Skip to 70' : [...]
Continue reading...Initial Parameters for Silverlight
Friday, November 7, 2008
When writing Silverlight applications there might one question come up from time to time: Is it possible to "feed" the application with initial parameters and if yes, how can this be done? To do this, there are so-called InitParams. This paramaters stores the given data in key-value pairs. They can be declared this way: [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Embraces AMQP Messaging Standard
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I just ran across this article by Jeff Gould explaining that Microsoft has joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) working group. This is really exciting because AMQP is an open standard with a sizable number of cross-platform implementations. Jeff makes the analogy that: “…AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is [...]
Continue reading...MSDN Developer Conference - New York City on January 20th
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? Cloud computing, Software plus services, Windows Azure, SQL Services, Live Services, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 Framework, etc, etc…. Did you miss all of the news coming out of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles last month? Or, maybe [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft DreamSpark(softwares from microsoft for free)
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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Continue reading...PDC 2008 Videos I’m watching – part 3
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thats the latest episode of my review of the PDC videos Im downloading and plan to watch in the future. Im now at 8Gb of videos. For those who are interested, on Channel9 the same video are available also in lower quality WMV, formatted for the Zune and in MP4 for those who want to [...]
Continue reading...DevReach 2008 Speaker Feedback
Monday, November 3, 2008
I've been posting feedback from my talks on my blog as a means of transparency as well as a way to get more feedback and hopefully improve my talks and topics. You can see some past posts here for instance. At any rate, a month or so ago I was in beautiful Bulgaria [...]
Continue reading...PDC 2008 ASP.NET AJAX Futures talk available online
Monday, November 3, 2008
The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site. You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC32/ Download MP4 / iPod, Zune, WMV or WMV-HQ. Slides: [...]
Continue reading...PDC 2008 - A (almost) mobile retrospection from my point of view
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Arriving at L.A. I have already heard, that there wouldn't be much on Windows Mobile @ PDC. So I've started asking myself, if this would be the right conference to attend to as a Device Application MVP. Looking back from today I have to say: Yes it was [...]
Continue reading...Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Windows Azure
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The first in a very short series of posts where I try and distil some of the key announcements we made at PDC into something I can make sense of. First up, Windows Azure. Azure consists of both an operating system and a set of services. Windows Azure is our operating system in the [...]
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Friday, November 7, 2008
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