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Windows Azure Cloud Computing User Group New York City Chapter
Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform. At this meeting, you'll hear about Microsoft's vision of Software + Services and what it can mean for you. As part of this presentation, you'll see a demo of how a cloud application is developed and deployed.
Cloud computing has huge implications for both developers and business people. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor and be part of the community that helps pioneer this exciting new area.
Sorry all for not blogging for last few years. Been on a few very sensitive bids/projects and all gone down well, won some good ones along the way and learnt alot through solution delivery aswell!
Won't bore you to tears with the detail but I've done just as much MOSS as BizTalk in the space of the last few years purely because of the growth of MOSS in the marketplace.
I have left my last company and have joined a fantastic Microsoft setup at CSC, and I want to get the right people to join me who can translate business benefits of a cutting edge £Multi Million solution with all the necessary pragmatics.
So if you want to work on propositions involving
BizTalk Server 2009/ESB Guidance 2.0
MOSS/OCS/Exchange 2007
Windows Server 2008 AD (CS/DS/RMS/NPS/FS/LDS...)
Hyper-V,App-V,VDI
SCCM/SCVMM/SCOM
Forefront/Stirling
Stratature/MDM Bulldog
Dublin/Oslo
Visual Studio 2008
Dynamics xRM
Interviews available immediately for right candidates with fantastic experience to join our Microsoft Practice
Send your COMPREHENSIVE CVs to me at
rchanian@csc.com
http://www.csc.com/
Tonights meeting of
NYCDOTNETDEVMicrosoft introduced several new data access technologies in .NET 3.5 SP1. Which one should you use? Entity Framework? Dynamic Data? ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)? Linq? POADN? (Plain old ADO .NET) What about ORMs? Has Microsoft lost its mind? Join Stephen in a discussion on Data Access Methodologies for the 21st Century, including a discussion of ATOM over REST. Note: This will require some audience participation.
Singularity OSMicrosoft Research has been building an operating system prototype extending programming languages while developing new techniques with tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
Singularity RDK 2.0 Initial Release
Cray XT5 Jaguar SupercomputerThe new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion.
With more than three times the memory and bandwidth the Jaguar is powered by the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor as the first supercomputer to uses the X86 instruction set with all it's applications, compilers, and tools. Jaguar has hundreds of applications that have been ported and run on the Cray XT system, many of which have been scaled up to run on 25,000 to 150,000 AMD Opteron cores.
Intel Core i7Intel is launching a new desktop microprocessor today containing 731 million transistors spread among four cores. The Core i7 is the most powerful chip Intel has ever produced and it's also the most power efficient, when running a program with two threads only two cores will perform the task as integrated power switches turn cores on or off. Zero power for inactive cores corresponds to billions of dollars in energy savings after all the Pentium 4 chips are replaced around the world.
Announcing Windows 2008 URL Rewrite Module
The
URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7 can be useful for your Project Server and SharePoint Server deployment:
URL Rewriter for IIS 7.0 enables Web administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find. By using rule templates, rewrite maps and other functionality integrated into IIS Manager, administrators can easily set up rules to define URL rewriting behavior based on HTTP headers and server variables, or to perform redirects, send custom responses, or stop HTTP requests based on the logic expressed in the rewrite rules.URL Rewriter RTW and More IIS Extension Updates
Quad-Core AMD OpteronToday AMD is announcing it's first 45 nanometer Quad-Core Opteron Server processor, it will require a third less power then the previous generation Opteron and with a larger cache enabling advanced virtualzation capabilities.
The Quad-Core Opteron is optimized for high speed DDR2 memory creating more efficiency with less power in the Data Center for a welcomed decrease in the overall cost of cooling.
Partners HP, IBM, SUN and Cray are shipping servers today with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron. AMD is the processor provider for Windows Azure cloud services.
Cheat Sheet: Presentation Technology Matrix Our friends at Patterns and Practices have put together chart to help us understand our technology choices for the presentation layer. Your choice of presentation technology will be related to both the application type you are developing and the type of user experience you plan to deliver. Use the Presentation Layer Technology Summary to review each technology and its description. Use the Benefits and Considerations Matrix to make an informed choice of presentation technology based on the advantages and considerations of each one. Use the Common Scenarios and Solutions to map your application scenario to common presentation technology solutions.
BizTalk Server 2006 y Windows Workflow Foundation son las principales herramientas de Microsoft para la implementación de soluciones de flujo de trabajo ya sea para la "integración empresarial" (Enterprise Integration Workflow) o bien "dentro de una aplicación". Con el fin de elegir lo que es adecuado para un proyecto, primero se debe identificar cuál es el escenario de flujo de trabajo al cual está dirigido el mismo.
Utilice la siguiente tabla para ver la tecnología de flujo de trabajo recomendada para cada escenario. Para el flujo de trabajo dentro de una aplicación, la recomendación es WF. Para la mayoría de los procesos de negocio basados en servidor y los escenarios B2B, la recomiendación es BizTalk Server.
Tecnologías de flujo de trabajo específica al escenario
Tanto para los escenarios "Long Running Business Process" como "Web Service Aggregator", cada una de las tecnologías puede ser aplicada afectivamente. Para estos casos se debe evaluar el perfil actual y a corto plazo de la organización. Las organizaciones que se encuentran en, o se desplazan hacia, el perfil Avanzado o "Dynamic" deberían utilizar BizTalk Server 2006; las organizaciones con perfil Básico y Estándar pueden utilizar WF.
Leer la historia completa en: BizTalk Server 2006 or WF? Choosing the Right Workflow Tool for Your Project escrita por Kent Brown.
If you need to stop a datareader in the middle, instead of at the end, you have to call cancel on the command object. Calling the Close() method will result in a timeout exception.
using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, conn))
{
XmlReader reader = cmd.ExecuteXmlReader();
reader.Read();
while (!reader.EOF)
{
if (this.Cancel)
{
cmd.Cancel();
reader.Close():
break;
}
holder = reader.ReadOuterXml();
}
}
The
MSDN Architecture Center has information and examples about the latest techniques and trends, demonstrating how technology aligns to your current business needs. Learn what others are doing and how challenges are being addressed, but also share your ideas and participate in the forums.
How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 for .NETThe Facebook Developer Toolkit on CodePlex has been a popular project to help make it easier to do Facebook development using .NET. Bill Konrad has put together an awesome article on how you can get started.
neuronspark inspiring innovation
How the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Helps Tackle Corporate Communications and TrainingIf you are using SharePoint, the Podcasting Kit provides another set of capabilities that will help you bring real value to your organization.
There is a webcast on Thursday, November 13, about the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.
For live viewing details, see Mike Gannotti’s
post about the webcast.
This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and lifecycle management challenges
Download: SharePoint Guidance – November 2008
Sitecore's Content Management System let's you create and maintain up-to-date dynamic ASP.Net Web sites that can scale. You can sign-up and join the Sitecore Developer Network and get all the bits you need to build a personal site. I've just joined and can see there's an extensible developer community already.
Download a free copy of Sitecore Xpress The open structure of Sitecore Xpress and the .NET programming languages create amazing possibilities.
When: Tuesday, November 4th, 6:30pm
Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046
Topic: What's new with Silverlight 2 and Other Topics from the Professional Developers Conference
This Tuesday, vote early but not often, then join us at the main meeting as Pete Brown will show us what is new with Silverlight 2 and some other technologies introduced at the PDC. Find out what new technologies will accompany the new administration. We'll also open up the floor for discussion. See you on Tuesday. “I Voted” sticker encouraged but not required.
Presenter: Pete Brown
Pete Brown is a Silverlight / WPF MVP, Microsoft client app plat fanboy, and Architect at Applied Information Sciences, Inc. His personal site and blog can be found at www.IrritatedVowel.com
For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.
InnovationAs the World economy is spiraling down it's easy to spot the innovators, their the optomistists who see an opportunity to try something new. Corporations need to invest in Research and Development to save money on taxes, but can they see beyond the products and services they produce today? Most of the time innovation comes from a fresh source, a creative individual who has an idea and sees a new way of solving a problem.
What is "blog worthy"? Obviously not much since I haven't written a new post for just about one year. It's not that I haven't had the desire to post, just not the follow thru. The main thing that seems to hold me back is this higher ideal of writing something that is "blog worthy" This ideal could be defined by a few basic ideas:
-Is something that hasn't been written up somewhere else
-Is well thought out and written
-Is technically sound, tested and documented with valid code samples
-Will be of value to someone who runs into the same or similar issues
Well after a year of working at a new company and dealing with some new and some new to me technology I had plenty of: "I should blog about this....oh, somebody already did.....oh, and I would need to write some test code to re-verify my findings....oh, and nobody cares....etc...." I've decided to stop caring so much about the content and just post as much as I can for the sheer pleasure of it.
So, it may not amount to anything great outside of my mind, but......as I mentioned above...nobody really cares! I may be the only person reading it anyway ;-)
If anyone does happen to read anything I have posted and has a comment I would love to hear it. I have disabled anonymous comments because of the spam, so please create a free account or email me, and I will post it for you.
The
Live Framework is the uniform way for programming Live Services from a variety of platforms, programming languages, applications and devices. Consume and combine Live Services to build applications that span across digital devices and the web.
XNA Game Studio 3.0 enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows and the Microsoft Zune digital media player by using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on the .NET Framework.
The XNA Game Studio 3.0 supports Visual Studio 2008 for developing games that run on the Microsoft Zune digital media player, enhancements to the XNA Framework API for media support, and sound.
WEPC
Intel believes the spark for innovation can come from anywhere, . That's why Intel is working with ASUS to tap into the creative energy of consumers as they share ideas on designing their ideal PC. Intel is committed to encouraging conversations with consumers and giving people a voice in the design of technology they use every day. - Mike Hoefflinger, GM of Intel's Partner Marketing Group
ASUS and Intel have created WePC.com in an effort to bridge innovation and technology with consumers' wishes, ASUS strives to provide the best user experience with our products. By empowering WePC.com users to play a role in the design process, we expect to deliver cutting-edge community-designed products that address a consumer vision of the dream PC. - Lillian Lin, ASUS Marketing
I have lot's of ideas and have already signed-up!
The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including samples, demos, hands-on labs, and presentations that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. These labs cover the broad set of Azure Services including Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services.
The effort to organize
NotAtPDC all started from several people on
Twitter having a few laughs because most of the community is not at the
Microsoft PDCFollow us on
Twitter and join in
the sessions.
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