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 — so much opportunity, so little guidance...

Web 2.0 applications are taking on a new form. They are composite applications in nature, and increasingly can be created and hosted completely in the Web (cloud), without any dedicated or owned physical infrastructure. And they are increasingly being implemented at higher levels of abstraction (moving...

My colleague Joe Shirey just put together a series of eight posts that cover the process of the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program and “what would I tell someone interested in the program”. Joe is one of the board members of the MCA program that has helped to shape it since its inception...

Popfly provides an environment where people without a significant technical background can build stuff in, and hides the complexities in the underlying infrastructure. It also articulates many of the Web 2.0 principles, such as enabling participation and harnessing collective intelligence, leveraging...

My collegue David Chou does a great job of distilling the new Internet platform, here is an excerpt... Collectively, the rich cluster of "Web 2.0" sites on the internet form a services foundation from which applications and functionalities can be built upon, without needing any additional dedicated...

December 4, 2007 - Irvine, California The emerging technology macro-trend today is the convergence of the Web and physical worlds, often referred to as the disappearing boundaries between the on-line and off-line worlds. This trend underscores a shift from using web browsers on personal computers...

http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/archive/2007/10/17/soa-security-enterprise-architecture-perspective.aspx

Awesome content, rock-star speakers, what else could you ask for? The next patterns & practices Summit takes place November 5 - 9 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. Summit Web Site: http://www.pnpsummit.com/west2007.aspx...

The next set of SoCal Architect Councils is a “ plain old technology briefing ” covering the upcoming versions of Visual Studio, Windows Server, and SQL Server. This event will be held in San Diego on November 28th and Irvine on November 29th. Please register for the location that works...

Scheduled for October 15-16th, 2007, the ITARC 2007 conference is an event focused on the architecture topics in IT. The organizers at IASA (International Association of Software Architects) have arranged over 30 session in 4 concurrent tracks covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture...

"If an application is hard to use, I just use it less" I haven't posted for a while but after months of thinking about User Experience, how it impacts business, having customers ask "Why is User Experience (UX) important?", it all just came to me at one time. We've been looking for definitions as...

Microsoft Southern California / US Developer and Platform Evangelism Architect Evangelist If you are interested please contact Kevin or Scott and/or submit your resume at the link below! http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=E5D780CA-F353-471B-A9D3-A749761A0947 The Architect...