A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform Friday March 4 th , 2011 8:00 am Welcome 8:30 - 5:00 pm Sessions Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market St Suite 700 San Francisco California 94103 Cores, cores, cores...

“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the highway”, etc. We’ve all heard this type of proclamations before, as many look to the “next big things” in technology to exact sweeping changes and solve...

Many new and interesting developments on the Microsoft Web platform were unveiled at the MIX09 conference last week, such as Silverlight 3 , Eclipse Tools for Silverlight , .NET RIA Services ,  Web Platform Installer , IIS Smooth Streaming , Windows...

You may have already heard about the many announcements made at Microsoft’s MIX09 conference this week in Las Vegas. One of the major announcements is the Beta availability of Silverlight 3 (and it does look like three’s the charm). Fully supported by...

Team System “Big Event” How do you take an idea from conception to completion? How can you truly do more with less? Please join us for this unique, invitation-only event to discover how both product and processes help your organization succeed in today...

A Day in the Life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server Please join Microsoft and Neudesic for a day in the life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server!  Agile methods are a set of...

Please join us for the 7th annual Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Industry Solutions Conference 2009 where you will learn about solutions in Microsoft technologies relevant to the Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences industries, as well ...

On Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Microsoft is hosting a day long free training event for all Developers and IT Pro’s interested in learning more about Internet Explorer 8. You can read about the speaker line up, sessions and get a feel for the agenda by...

MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT OF TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER WITH FREE LIVE WORKSHOPS There is continual pressure for IT departments to accomplish more for the business with fewer resources. Make sure your business application development projects are advancing with...

Windows 7 search can help you find and act on documents anywhere in the enterprise, not just those indexed on your local computer. Any server compatible with the OpenSearch standard such as Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 servers can now be searched...

  Overview Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition provides advanced tools for database change management and testing and offers functionality to enable database developers and administrators to be more productive and increase application...

Microsoft just announced a new service intended for mobile devices, called Recite . In short, it allows people to record voice notes using their mobile devices, and then use voice again to search against saved “notes”, then Recite will “recite” the identified...

Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of innovation around of technologies that make it easier for the end user of an application to interact with systems.  This innovation has been a boon for the end user because it has provided them...

“Are you a PC?” Get a FREE “I’m a PC” black, cotton t-shirt by taking a short survey…honest, it’s less than 10 questions!  Click here to take the survey and get your t-shirt. [UPDATE 2009.02.04] : Our apologies – the response has been overwhelming...

This is an ongoing series of posts and studies on cloud computing and related concepts, and the Microsoft platform and strategies. This post will serve as an index of related posts on this blog, and will be updated periodically. Read the full article...

It has been a couple of months since I wrote about cloud computing and Microsoft’s plans and strategies . Now that Azure Services Platform has been unveiled at PDC2008 , and after having the opportunities to discuss it with a community of architects from...

It has just been a few days since Anne Thomas Manes at Burton Group published her post “ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services ”, and it has stirred up quite a storm of comments in the blogosphere. Most of what I read though, seem to be in alignment with what...

One of the interesting items announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week was Microsoft Tag ( http://www.microsoft.com/tag ). It is a different kind of bar code, intended to be read by cameras in cell phones and mobile devices with Internet...

Join us for a new type of developer event - MSDN Unleashed is coming to SoCal! This special installment consists of hands on labs, with a preconfigured computer set up for use for each attendee.  The topic for this session is Silverlight 2.0. ...

If you haven't already registered at http://www.socalcodecamp.com for the upcoming Rock & Roll Code Camp to be held in Fullerton - why not take a minute to do it now!?!? Remember, CODE CAMP IS FREE!!! January 24th & 25th, 2009 University of California...

THE NATURE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IS RADICALLY CHANGING … ARE YOU READY? We’re bringing the PDC (Professional Developers Conference held in Los Angeles in October 2008) to you! For just $99 you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear...

Are you interested about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) but concerned about the learning curve?  Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started?  Or are you curious about how tools like Visual Studio and Expression Blend...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Irvine campus on Thursday, December 11, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas...

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Los Angeles campus on Thursday, December 4, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas...

The growing maturity of SOA has increased the need for enterprises to extend value chains beyond their own four walls, by facilitating dynamic business processes that span multiple organizations. At the same time, the advent of cloud computing is ushering...