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April 2009 - Posts

Making Private Clouds
eek! Steve Martin nets out what it means for “private clouds” in the age of Azure . Easy read but it made me hungry and impatient :) “…we’re bringing the lessons learned from our public cloud to the places where they will likely deliver the most benefit Read More...
Don’t miss our smarts; mark your calendars!
eek! Great two weeks ahead for virtual events that you don’t have to dress up for. The good folks at the LinkedIn .NET Users Group have a bunch of sessions coming up with personalities you will not want to miss. Oh, and we are running a conference that Read More...
To Mother Earth
eek! Thank you! Discovered the GFS website via Steve Clayton’s awesome blog and the bit about Microsoft’s Top 10 Business Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers . Supplements? “Going Green” – a special online-only Green IT issue of TechNet Read More...
Who are you?
eek! This is very cool: Your one-stop shop for all things identity on Channel9 . P.S. Do you know Dick ? Read More...
Tales from the languages gene pool
eek! If you want to catch up on the videos from the Lang.NET Symposium 2009, they are ready . Catch them and then poke around the website, you’ll be able to get videos from last year too. I just watched the Tales from the F# productization and will be Read More...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
eek!   In these difficult economic times, we believe it is a great time to hear the voices of customers across various industry sectors , who are driving down costs, improving efficiency, and increasing agility and quality of solutions to business Read More...
Getting Azure Smart
eek! They just revved the Azure Services Training Kit . I really think these Training Kits are a well kept secret, so I’m pretty unabashed about promoting them :) What’s new in the April revision: New Presentation for SQL Data Services 2 additional hands-on Read More...
Pizza and Azure in Springfield, MA
eek! Join us if you are in the neighborhood tomorrow. Details here: Western Mass .NET Users Group . Here’s the abstract: Late last year, Microsoft unveiled its cloud computing platform called the Azure Services Platform. It is made up of an operating Read More...
Jumpstarting your ASP.NET MVC Skills
eek! ScottGu’s blog entry pretty well summed up the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release complete with source code! He pulled together some handy training materials to learn ASP.NET MVC including recorded sessions from MIX09. The one item missing from the blog entry Read More...
Taking Interoperability Seriously
eek! My role allows me to focus on architects and developers behind corporate firewalls with rich heritage/legacy systems and lots of diversity in their technology portfolio. It is particularly heartening to see all the investments Microsoft is making Read More...
April Cool
eek! Bucking the trend on April Fool by doing an April Cool post. Here are some of the things I talked about in March. Hope you get a resource or link that saves you time... Girl Geeks Rule Downloading IE8 Get Silverlight 3 Beta with eyes wide open Say Read More...
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