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Microsoft Virtual TechDays

Caught some of the sessions in the Microsoft tech-days Developer 2009 event. The sessions were from developers all over the world some 90 odd sessions spanning a 24 hour period. The sessions I caught were mainly related to Windows Development and Frameworks and the Developer Tools and the Web Development and User Experience sessions. Rachel […]

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Twitter

Twitter is a great social networking tool and everyone is on it these days, so how do you determine who to follow – some links that help cut through the clutter, ExecTweetsWho to Follow on Twitter

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Mix09 – Silverlight Virtual Earth Map Control

The new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control and the VESMP CTP Interactive SDK were made available at the Mix (beta). The map control is a Silverlight 3.0 plug-in (available as a beta) that streams data directly to a map. Currently available interactive maps on Google or Microsoft Live.com all use AJAX that only allows zoom […]

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Mix09 – Silverlight 3.0

Silverlight 3.0 is slated for release towards the end of this year; however a beta is available for download now that has all the flashy streaming media controls shown in the many demos. NetFlix showed off the adaptive streaming/buffering capabilities of the media control. There are over 100 Silverlight 3.0 controls and a slew of […]

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Mix 09 – IE 8.0 and IIS 7.0

IE 8.0 was officially released and some of the standout features are – Web slices (quickly call up selected content from a web page such as updates from a page), Accelerators (cut and paste text from one application to another easily), InPrivate browsing/filtering (history not stored) and most of all the improved Developer Tools. On […]

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Mix 09 – Azure

The Azure cloud commuting strategy mainly relies on having a number of REST (Representational State Transfer) based WCF services hosted in the cloud serving up various resources. Simply put, a REST based WCF service is a WCF service that supports just the HTTP transport and resources are addressed entirely through Uris and data transfer occurs […]

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Mix 09 – Day 1

Mix09, day1 keynote speaker was Bill Buxton. In his talk, he drew a distinction between Experience Design vs. Interface Design by tracing the history of design over the years. How developers tend to focus on Interface Design when they should begin with Experience Design. He was followed by Scot Guthrie (VP .NET Division) who demonstrated […]

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Microsoft’s Single View

Interesting article by Mary Jo Foley about Microsoft’s map + business data = Microsoft’s single view http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2216

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Packaging product – Infopath and BizTalk Server etc

Working on determining how to package a distributed application that comprises of multiple components – InfoPath forms, WCF services, BizTalk Server applications et al. Thinking of exporting the InfoPath forms (.xsn) to single site definition (.wsp) file and creating msi for BizTalk Server apps, and exes for services and all of these packaged in an […]

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Montgomery code camp

Just returned from the AL Code Camp #7 at AUM campus in Montgomery. Lots of developer centric tracks, great giveaways. Event was well attended, great job Bruce and rest of the code camp volunteers.

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