IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink That fine chap http://twitter.com/serialseb is pulling together an interesting evening of fun on the Wednesday in London and I for one will definitely be there. Lots of goodness to...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Microsoft is continuing to make significant investments in Datacenter technology and is focused on solving issues such as long lead times, significant up-front costs and over capacity...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink IronRuby is a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime . The project's #1 goal is to be a true Ruby...

Time for another guest post (check out others in the series ), this time bringing together the world of mocking with the world of Entity Framework. A big thanks to Moses for agreeing to do this. Unit Testing Entity Framework Dependent Code using TypeMock...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [Did I overdo the use of FREE in the title? :-)] April 12th to 16th is Microsoft Tech Days – 5 days of sessions on Visual Studio 2010 through to Windows 7 Phone Series. Many of these...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink At QCon in March we had a sample Azure application implemented in both Java and Ruby to demonstrate that the Windows Azure Platform is not just about .NET. The following is an interesting...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink At QCon in March we had a booth focused on interoperability out of which came the idea to create an application implemented in both Java and Ruby on Rails, running on top of the Windows...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Last week (March 2010) I presented on Entity Framework 4 and the Windows Azure Platform at www.devweek.com . As usual, it was a great conference and I caught up with lots of old friends...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink The P&P team have started to share guidance on the Windows Azure Platform .  They plan to group their efforts around: 1. Moving to the Cloud 2. Integrating with the Cloud 3. Leveraging...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On Tuesday (16th March 2010) I presented on Azure to a none technical audience at the Cloud Computing Congress . Great audience, lots of folks, lots of questions during and after –...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 12 months back (today is March 15th 2010) on the 16th of  March 2009 I created a poll on Entity Framework v1 – the marmite of ORMs? A quick poll… . Entity Framework v1 was getting a...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I just posted on the bits you need to install to explore all the features of Entity Framework 4 with the Visual Studio 2010 RC. I’ve also had a quick look (March 12th 2010) to see what...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Next week (17th March 2010) I am presenting on EF4 at www.devweek.com in London (and Azure on the 18th). Today I wanted to get all the latest bits on my demo machine and also check...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink When I get some time (and hell starts to look a little chilly) I would love to do a more detailed review. But I wanted to get something “out there” as I really like this book and reviews...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [You might want to also read other GuestPosts on my blog – or contribute one ?] On the 26th and 27th of March (2010) myself and Edd Morgan of Microsoft will be popping along to the...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Steve spoke last week (March 4th 2010) on the possibilities of the Cloud and the importance to Microsoft. Of our 40,000 people building software, 70% of the people at Microsoft today...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink When Windows Azure was first released in 2008 the only programming languages you could use were .NET languages such as Visual Basic and C# and the applications you built had to run...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [You might want to also read other GuestPosts on my blog – or contribute one ?] On the 26th and 27th of March (2010) myself and Edd Morgan of Microsoft will be popping along to the...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On Saturday 35(ish) developers met up on rainy day in Birmingham to take part in an Open Space Code day on the Windows Azure Platform . Around 5 of us had experience of Open Space meetings...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I’m not 100% sure who first came up with idea of an Open Space Coding Day – but I first heard about it from Alan Dean back in mid 2009 and I‘m working on the assumption it was his idea...