January, 2011

Happy New Year everyone! A new year, a news series of events to share with you!  Just got word that some of my teammates are going to be hosting a new series of Firestarter events up and down the east coast.  This series will be focused on building...

Earlier this month, Drupal 7 was released .  Drupal 7 is a "friendly and powerful content management platform for building nearly any kind of website: from blogs and micro-sides to collaborative social communities” (from the Drupal site ). ...

One of my Developer Evangelist colleagues from the west coast, Lynn Langit , published an article on Getting Started with SQL Azure in MSDN Magazine today.  Lynn’s article is thorough and does a great job of helping one get up to speed on working...

Most of the developer talk around Windows Azure seems to be focused on .NET-based applications.  However, Azure is open to running all sorts of different application platforms. On the Connected Show , Dmitry and I have dedicated quite a bit of air...

Dmitry Lyalin, my co-host on the Connected Show , recently developed a Windows Phone 7 application for Leo Laporte’s This Week In Tech (TWiT) network. The application recently reached as high as #2 on the Top Rated Apps list in the marketplace! Dmitry...

Last summer, Microsoft announced a collection of new tools for creating websites on Windows, wrapped into a package called WebMatrix . Dmitry Lyalin , Andrew Brust , and I discussed it on the Connected Show back in July 2010 . I also spoke on it recently...

It’s that time of year again!  Mark your calendars, as Code Camp is coming back to NYC for its 5th edition on Saturday, February 19th, 2011.  Via the NYC Code Camp website … What’s a code camp?  Code Camps are "grass roots" mini...

Last weekend was the first NYC GiveCamp . It was part of a National GiveCamp weekend where in 14 US cities, teams of designers, developers and database administrators donated their time and expertise to complete an IT project – usually custom software...

Via Bob Familiar … Andrew Parsons , Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft based in NY, is holding 2-day events for students where they can learn how to develop their own game for XBox 360 and Windows Phone 7 using XNA. The first will be held in...

A new year, a new episode.  This time, the Connected Show hits 40!  In this episode, guest Brian Hitney joins Peter to discuss how he migrated the My World Maps application to Windows Azure. Fresh off his Azure Firestarter tour through the eastern...

As we closed out 2010, my teammate Rachel Appel wrote up a retrospective post on her blog, re-capping what went on here in the tri-state Microsoft community.  Rachel then invites folks to share their feedback and ideas for how we can keep the local...

Last fall, Brian Hitney , Jim O’Neil , and I went on the road to deliver a series of Azure Firestarter events up and down the east coast. Those events were focused on what’s in Azure for developers. There is so much there for developers to learn, despite...