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Bob Familiar is the Director of Technical Evangelism for Microsoft DPE East Region. The Technical Evangelism team works with students, 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 Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure and use Windows server 2012 to build, deploy and manage private and public cloud infrastructure.
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The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity
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Roger Sessions , author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises , has released a new whitepaper entitled ‘ The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity ’. The world economy is losing over six trillion USD per...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009
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The Innovation Showcase does not fail to deliver on this weeks top headlines. Check out the stories below… Dell GIS Helps Its Customers Reduce Costs Through Solutions Built on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Facebook Toolkit for .NET Developers Firefox...
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ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com
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ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com ‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the...
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Bing Adds Wolfram | Alpha Capabilities
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Bing has unveiled some work they have been doing with Wolfram|Alpha . Started in May 2009 by noted scientist Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious (and very cool) project to, as the company’s website says, “make all systematic knowledge immediately...
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Test and package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in from Novell
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ArsTechinca has an article that details a new commercial product from Novell that is an add-in for Visual Studio that will allow Windows developers to test and deploy their .NET applications on Linux . Novell has launched a new add-in for Visual Studio...
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Posting your WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Search to the IE8 Gallery
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Jim Cirone details how to get your IE8 WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Seach add-on listed in the IE8 Gallery. Read more… Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer 8 , WebSlice , Accelerator , Visual Search , IE8 , IE8 Accelerator , IE8 WebSlice
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/09/2009
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Lots of terrific articles posted this week on the Innovation Showcase news site. Read about new features in Visual Studio 2010 , check out David Chappells’ whitepaper on the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform and see video interviews with Don Box and...
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ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System
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ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell , VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual...
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Azure Blob Caching – Life on the Edge
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Microsoft has just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) This is a new network edge caching service built upon Windows Azure that provides improved high-bandwidth blob retrieval performance by locating blobs near the point that they...
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Architect Innovation Cafe WebCasts – November 2009
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Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract: Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009
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The Innovation Showcase is a fantastic collection of the most compelling content that is of interest to the Architect Community. Subscribe, follow and stay connected. Here are this weeks headlines: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version...
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ARCast.TV - Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring
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ARCast.TV - Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring While there are many qualities by which to judge an architecture, two technologies, dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP), provide guidance on some of the most...
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Mike Taulty Video Series on PRISM for Silverlight 3
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Mike Taulty has published an excellent series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in " Prism " or the " Composite Application Guidance " from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications...
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Tallan Presents The Evolution of the Asynchronous Web
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Join us on Wednesday, November 11th at 8:30AM at New Horizons' New York City office for breakfast followed by this informative seminar. Register now! Join us on Thursday, November 12th at 8:30AM at New Horizons' Bloomfield, CT office for breakfast followed...
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IE8 Accelerator for Searching IHI Improvement Map
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The Improvement Map is a Silverlight 3 based online tool that distills the best knowledge available on the key process improvements that Hospitals can leverage to deliver better outcomes for patients. The tool makes it easy for hospitals to find, understand...
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O’Neil’s 7 on 7
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Jim O’Neil , a developer evangelist for Microsoft, has published 7 detailed technical articles on 7 features of Windows 7 that developers should be looking at if they want to really shine on the new OS. Task Bar Federated Search Extended Linguistic Services...
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ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud
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ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires...
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Connected Show #19 – User Experience..It ain’t lipstick baby!
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Connected Show – Episode #19 – Dave Crawford on User Experience: It ain’t lipstick baby! In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java...
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Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough
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M. David Stone writes for PC Magazine about an innovative breakthrough at Xerox that allows them to print circuit boards on flexible material…can computer clothing be far behind. From Mr. Stone’s article… Xerox on Tuesday announced a new...
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IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement
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Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine , Paul Hamnett, VP of engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeny, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new Silverlight...
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PDC09 – Register Today
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Register by October 30th and receive a $300 discount! Get Windows 7 Compatible PDC09 attendees can get a jumpstart on making sure their applications run seamlessly on Windows 7. Technical experts will be available onsite at the Windows 7 Developer...
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Microsoft Store – engaging with consumers directly
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Tim Heuer has a great write up on the new Microsoft Store that launched in Scottsdale, Arizona Here are some pictures of the new store: Technorati Tags: Microsoft
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CIO MAG: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version of Windows
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Shane O’Neill of CIO Magazine has compiled a great series of articles on Windows 7. From the article: “From pricing questions to interface tweaks to upgrade concerns, CIO.com's Windows 7 Bible covers it all. Our guide delivers expert reviews, advice...
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Innovation Showcase Headlines 10/26/2009
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Here are the latest headlines form the Innovation Showcase site: Architecture Thought Leaders Gathered in New York Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) – Deep Dive Event Intel CEO Paul Otellini Speaks at FoxBusiness About Three Reasons Why Corporations May Not...
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ARCast.TV - CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing
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ARCast.TV - CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing What are the business considerations, the risks and benefits, when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue...
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