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Bob Familiar is the Director of Audience Evangelism for Microsoft DPE East Region. The Audience Evangelism team works with students, faculty, professional developers and IT pros to help them learn, adopt and use the Microsoft developer platform to design and build the next generation of apps for devices. Bob has been working in the software industry for 26 years, the past 15 with Microsoft. Bob has a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and holds a patent in Object Relational Modeling.
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.23.2010
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Some very cool topics are covered on Innovation Showcase this week including: Bing Maps Augmented Reality (a must see!), what’s new in Windows 7 Phone, an eye opening ARCast.TV episode featuring a Silverlight application that displays medial history,...
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Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
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This is the second screencast in a series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use the taskbar to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Yochay Kiriaty explains how to use the Win 32 API to control the taskbar's Overlay Icons...
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Blog Spotlight: If yoda were a developer, James Phillips
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James Phillips has written an excellent series of posts on Entity Framework, Dependency Injection, WCF, SCRUM and Agile. James is an expert in SCRUM and Agile and is using this methodology along with Team Foundation server in his own work. Check out James...
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Puralsight On Demand – New Releases
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from the content editor Check out what's new in the Pluralsight On-Demand! library. As we aggressively grow our library in 2010, we've been adding a few very talented instructors to our team. This month be sure to watch Kate Gregory's how-to video on...
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Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects
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Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 60-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. February 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Visual Studio Tools...
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Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7
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February 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: How to Architect a Killer App for Windows 7 Abstract: Ever since its recent launch, Windows 7 has been enjoying rapid consumer adoption and glowing press reviews. This makes it a great platform to launch...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.16.2010
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This weeks Innovation Showcase headlines include stories on the new Windows Phone 7 Series, Federated Search, Windows Azure, VS2010 and EasySubmit an Office Online feature powered by Monster.com. Windows 7 Federated Search - A Developer's Perspective...
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ARCast.TV - Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates
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ARCast.TV - Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates When solutions fail, is it too easy to blame a given platform than for those really responsible to take responsibility? It more often has to do with one's level of problem...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.09.2010
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This week Innovation Showcase is featuring Outback Steakhouse and their Blooming Onion Facebook Application as well as a great collection of other articles on Windows 7, Windows Azure, Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010. Customer Showcase: Outback Steakhouse...
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ThirdM presents: SharePoint Saturday Boston February 27, 2010
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Register Event Code: 145192 02/27/2010 08:45 AM - 06:30 PM Welcome Time: 08:00 AM Time Zone: Eastern Event Language: English (United States) Location Microsoft Corporation 201 Jones Rd., 6th Floor Waltham, MA 02451 USA driving directions General Event...
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IASA New England Meeting: Agile Architect - Is it a Paradox?
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Agile Architect - Is it a Paradox? February 18th, 2010, 05:30pm - 07:30pm Agile and Architecture - Are they compatible? Is an Agile Architect an oxymoron? What does architecture mean in the Agile framework? Just how agile can an architect be? Join us...
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ARCast.TV - Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure
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ARCast.TV - Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure How do you meet the unknown scalability requirements for viral social networking Facebook applications? Thuzi is a Microsoft partner who has created a framework for delivering viral social...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02/02/2010
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Here are the Innovation Showcase Headlines for this week. Great content on SharePoint 2010 , Visual Studio 2010 , Silverlight 4 , Windows7 and Windows Azure . Bring Combined Search Experience to Windows 7 Users Understanding XP Mode in Windows 7 Windows...
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