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Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:27 PM

MSDN Flash Podcast Show 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure

Also knows as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that) This is a bonus edition of the podcast recorded on the 6th of October in London with Steve Marx , Technical Strategist working on Windows Azure. It starts slow, it
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:30 PM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 4th: How excited are you about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download – but are you excited?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:34 PM

Picture of me

Someone on twitter just asked - “I like your caricature but what do you really look like”. Brace yourselves! 1st the caricature: Which was done from this shot from a couple of years back (notice how the double chin vanished in the drawing – sweet): Now
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:57 PM

Free WPF, Silverlight and 3.5 SP1 training for UK Developers

At the start of 2009 we worked with InnerWorkings to help over 7000 UK developers get access to free training in C# or VB. As there are at least 100,000 UK developers (depends who you ask), we decided to again partner with InnerWorkings to bring you free
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:58 PM

Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open

The team and I were having a conversation about developers (we do that from time to time). It went something like: “Isn’t it a shame that so many developers are stuck on Visual Studio 2005 when Visual Studio 2008 would be way better for them and Visual
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:11 AM

David Chappell in conversation in the UK about Windows Azure and the cloud

David and I hosted David Chappell and Steve Marx in London on the 6th of October in a packed day with early adopters of azure (ISVs and System Integrators) David interviewed David (!) and I interviewed Steve for our MSDN Podcast . Unfortunately the podcast
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Monday, October 19, 2009 7:51 PM

Windows Azure Platform “free” for MSDN Subscribers and BizSpark companies

Well not exactly free but definitely extremely welcome and a great benefit . The introductory offer includes a huge 750 hours of compute time – which rather nicely is how much you need to run a node 24x7 for the whole month. Another great reason to sign
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Monday, October 19, 2009 6:15 PM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 now available – and launch date is set for March 22nd 2010

I am not the biggest fan of Mondays but today is different. Today is a good day. Today we announced the availability of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and revealed the official launch date: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on March 22nd
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:57 PM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for October 21st 2009: Which platforms do you develop for?

Nice and simple – but I think the results will be interesting.  
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:29 PM

MSDN Flash Podcast Show 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0, using Oslo and learning to love the web again thanks to ASP.NET MVC

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:45 PM

Slides and links from Windows Azure Platform Storage session

I delivered a session on Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Database at the UK Azure user group on the 6th of October. A big thanks to everyone who attended – and for putting up with my last minute improvisation when we realised that 2/3rd of the audience
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Friday, October 02, 2009 1:12 PM

Two great UK conferences – yet so different! Bathcamp and Software Architect 2009

Last Saturday I attended BathCamp near Bath and Tues through Thursday I attended Software Architect 2009 in London. I loved both conferences yet they are so very different. Hence (in a blokey way) I thought it would be interesting to summarise and compare.
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