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January 2009 - Posts

Silverlight Training from SoftSource

"Practical Silverlight" is an all-day, instructor-led, in-depth look into the application of Silverlight.  A Microsoft partner, SoftSource, is offering the course for $100, which is not a bad deal and worth a look.   Attendees Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:03 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 (Beta) is here!

At CES a little over a week ago, Steve Ballmer keynote included an announcement that Windows 7 Beta would be available for for everyone to try!  Its been getting very good reviews and positive press.  I have listed some blogs and resources below. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:00 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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New Video Explains S+S

Even though S+S or Software + Services has been out in the “wild” for a couple of years there are many who are not aware of what it really means.   It seems that in the internet culture of today nothing registers until it has an obligatory YouTube Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:26 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Live Mesh wins at the Crunchies!

I went to the 2008 Crunchies Ceremony, sponsored by TechCrunch last Friday in San Francisco.  It was the second year for the awards and was packed with over 900 attendees.  It turned out to be a good night for Windows Live as Windows Live Mesh Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Architecture and Connected Systems SIG – San Diego 2009.01.03

Here are the slides we presented at the combined Architecture and Connected Systems SIG meeting at Microsoft's San Diego campus on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your thoughts. If you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:53 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments

Series - Cloud Computing and Microsoft

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:51 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments

Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Platform

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:37 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments

Live Mesh Awarded Best Technology Innovation/Achievement Crunchie

Back in July’08 I had a written a blog on Live Mesh and yesterday at the 2008 Crunchie Awards and after ~ 350k votes were cast Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell from Microsoft accepted the award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement on behalf of the Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 11:11 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 Beta 1 Announced at CES 2009

Microsoft at the CES2009 , announced advances in Windows 7 beta, Windows Mobile, Windows Live – all designed to help consumers connect and live a ‘life without walls.’ Over the past few years customers have asked to make some changes to Windows and we Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:42 AM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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SOA – End of Life 2009.01.01

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 9:01 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Tag – Interactive Mobile Bar Codes

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 4:16 AM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Event – Silverlight 2.0 Hands on Labs in Irvine, CA on Jan. 15

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.  Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:08 PM by dpeuswr | 1 Comments
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Event – SoCalCode Camp

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:24 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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What is Live Mesh?

I was having lunch with @roseannhiggins and @cherylfarmer Wednesday afternoon and I mentioned that Microsoft Live Mesh was nominated for a TechCrunchie award (until January 05, 2009). They, of course, wanted to know what it is so I’m tossing out a few Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:28 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Unsolicited Windows Vista Testimonial

One of the best things about volunteering for booth duty at a broad community event is that you meet exceptional people. The city of Phoenix had a “Phoenix Rising” event on Saturday, December 27 to commemorate the startup of the new Light Rail System Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:58 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Event – MSDN Unleashed: The Best of PDC

My colleague, Rob Bagby , has announced the dates for his next series of MSDN Events this January.  This series of events focuses on a number of topics from the Professional Developer’s Conference which took place last October. Read the full article Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:55 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Are you a startup in Southern California?

if you are you should consider going to the Dealmaker Media event Startonomics LA . This event looks like a great place to lean about the current ways startups are being evaluated by venture capitalists. Read the full article on Woody Pewitt’s blog at Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:53 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Event – MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) in San Francisco on 2009.02.19

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:18 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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Event – XamlFest on January 14 & 15, 2009 at Irvine, California

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:04 PM by dpeuswr | 0 Comments
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