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Friday, June 19, 2009 11:18 PM

What I learned from the IE8 competition… since I paid for it :)

Wow… I have not blogged for a while, but I need to get out my blog silence to share my experience about the IE8 $10K prize competition, which by now, half of the Internet and 80% of Twitter community has commented on. (well OK, maybe not :) Let’s start
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Monday, March 30, 2009 1:44 AM

I'm Back!!! Well... sort of

Still not fully back on blogging quite yet (soon I promise). In the meantime, (if you want) you can follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gcarraro . See you soon in the 140 char / tinyurl world! #gpstillnotblogging
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:37 PM

Crikey... I am moving to Australia

In a few weeks, I will be packing all my goods in Redmond and board a big Qantas Airbus A380 to Sydney Australia !! My 4 and 1/2 years in Redmond have been a blast, I'm looking forward to more of those down under. (for those interested) here is more info
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 11:17 AM

PDC is over, it was awesome! Now, off to Sydney

What a week at the PDC ! With the CTP release Azure Services Platform I don't think that anyone is doubting anymore about Microsoft ability to understand and execute on "the cloud". But PDC was not only about the cloud, there was tons of stuff
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:38 PM

Head in the cloud, Feet on the ground: an article about the cloud

My brother in arms Eugenio and I wrote an article a few weeks back discussing the opportunity that "the cloud" offers in terms of IT optimization. Of course this is not the only opportunity that "the cloud" will offer, but it is likely
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:40 AM

Cloud Services Architecture symposium

As indicated in various press articles and blog entries in the recent weeks, PDC will be Microsoft's 'coming out' party for its cloud services platform. These additional platform assets will create a vast array of new possibilities, but at the same time
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:32 AM

So, I have been tagged...

Over the week end, my good buddy Vittorio a.k.a. the man who knows more about identity than it is mentally safe, started a new game and tagged me . Now, time to fire up a meme. There are super smart guys out there, and I'd be really curious to know what
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:16 PM

A little English lesson for cloud lingo lovers...

Being a non native English speaker I regularly make pronunciation or grammar mistakes and I usually don't mind. There is one thing I learned today though that I found amusing mostly because it is a small mistake that is commonly made by pretty much everybody
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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:05 PM

Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint

Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build against a database. Based on some work we did on our super famous sample application LitwareHR :) , we just released a blueprint providing guidance on writing
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Monday, July 21, 2008 5:41 PM

Software + Services for Architects Webcast

A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a webcast (~1hour) going through some of the architectural challenges faced by ISV architects in building S+S solutions, as well as the ones faced by architects in large enterprises consuming S+S solutions. Below a couple
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Monday, June 23, 2008 9:05 AM

Make a movie on S+S and win a trip to Macau!

A couple of months ago I wrote an article providing a high level explanation of the basic concepts of S+S, now my friends in Asia Pacific need your help visualizing this article through a great video. Anyone can participate – whether you’re
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Friday, June 20, 2008 3:27 PM

I can't believe we are still talking about whether saas == multi-tenancy...

I was reading Why multi-tenancy matters and Many degrees of multi-tenancy today and honestly, I am still surprised that there is still a debate around whether multi-tenancy is a prerequisite for SaaS. Multi-tenancy is a provider view of things, if you
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:18 PM

Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too

As I mentioned previously , the study of clouds (cloud computing of course) is becoming a very popular topic in the software industry. In the last couple of weeks alone, I read tens of articles on the subject. I found many of them proposing various type
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Monday, May 26, 2008 11:40 PM

Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!

Nephology (from the Greek word nephos for 'cloud') is the study of clouds and cloud formation. It seems to me that everybody in the IT industry wants to be an expert in cloud these days; cloud computing that is. Jokes apart, one thing I learned from the
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:50 AM

You liked LitwareHR v1, You loved LitwareHR v2, You are going to die for LitwareHR 'cloud storage' edition :)

More seriously... Eugenio just announced and released on Codeplex the latest drop of LitwareHR. Although the application UI was treated with a welcomed 'facelift' (we were told that LitwareHR UI was "too 1990s"), the main effort for this release
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