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April 2009 - Posts

ARCast.TV - Enabling Web Slices on Your Web Site

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:18 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Web Slices are a new IE8 feature that allows users to subscribe to some parts of a web page and receive updates automatically. In this screen cast, Zhiming Xue (Dr. “Z”), Microsoft Architect Evangelist, demonstrates through two simple examples how developers...(read more)
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SOAWorld: The Five Pillars of Cloud Computing

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 4:18 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Another interesting reading of cloud computing from SOAWorld…. Cloud computing is getting tons of press these days. Everyone has a different perspective and understanding of the technology, and there are myriad variations on the definition of the cloud-...(read more)
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85 Operations Rules to Live By

Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 3:30 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Many operations rules…. but some of them are really true reflections of past experiences…. 1)      Capacity First - Optimizations Later - this rule broken will guarantee downtime.  Do not optimize under the stress of downtime...(read more)
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Deep Zoom Pix – Amazing!

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:38 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Explore Photos Like Never Before! DeepZoomPix enables you to explore and share photos in a new and interactive way. DeepZoomPix is a technology demonstration that will be available until December 31st, 2009. Get started by importing your own photos and...(read more)
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ARCast.TV - Enabling Accelerators on Your Web Site

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:21 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Accelerators are a new IE8 feature that enables users to find and access information without leaving the web page. In this screen cast, Zhiming Xue (Dr. “Z”), Microsoft Architect Evangelist, demonstrates how developers can make an accelerator available...(read more)
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Open Cloud Manifesto

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:31 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Another nice article on cloud computing…. Introduction The buzz around cloud computing has reached a fever pitch. Some believe it is a disruptive trend representing the next stage in the evolution of the Internet. Others believe it is hype, as it uses...(read more)
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A Rare Opportunity to Meet Microsoft Corp Senior Executive on Future Platform & Technologies on 30 Apr 2009!

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:22 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Learn more on this event at Microsoft Technical Events ....(read more)
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2 Singapore case studies are featured on Windows Server 2008 Ad Landing Site!

Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 11:05 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Streetdirectory is featured on the Windows Server 2008 Ad Landing Site under the ‘case studies’ section.  Another local case study, Tyler Projects is also featured. 2 Singapore companies are featured on this Microsoft Corp site out of the total of...(read more)
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Brian Harry - Visual Studio Team System 2010 - 30 April 2009 @ 19:30 GMT

Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 11:02 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
There is a developer user group entitled Linked .NET Users Group ( http://www.lidnug.org ) which has over 20,000 users on LinkedIn and targeted for professionals using or interested in the Microsoft .NET technologies and the C# language in particular....(read more)
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ARCast.TV - Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:20 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
This interview focuses on architectural concerns when using the MVC Framework . Dependency Injection can help decouple the application and make your code more maintainable and testable, but how do you enable this? Join Jeffrey Palermo and Bob Familiar...(read more)
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RedMonk: Beyond Java and .NET: What Are We Writing To?

Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:28 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Another interesting article worth a read…. The truth is that the world was never as simple as we would have liked to believe. While Java vs .NET made for nice copy, and a simple message, the reality was hardly so black and white. Even as the enterprises...(read more)
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Why IT Solutions Are Never Simple

Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 12:34 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
An interesting article from Harvard Business School Publishing…. happy reading! Harvard Business: Why IT Solutions Are Never Simple Without concerted effort, what was once neat and tidy becomes marred and messy. Just finding something in the garage feels...(read more)
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Case Study: Microsoft Speeds Tool Delivery With Agile Development

Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 12:23 AM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
(Forrester, Inc., March 27, 2009 .pdf file, 242 kb) This case study looks at the agile development practices of Microsoft’s TeamArch and its involvement with Visual Studio Team System 2010. TeamArch decided to begin using Agile development practices to...(read more)
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Subfolders vs Sub-domain for SEO

Posted Sunday, April 05, 2009 2:52 PM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Many times when we are developing the site structure, we are given the options of running different part of the site on either sub domain or sub folder. An example will be: sub-domain – http://career.microsoft.com sub-folder – http://www.microsoft.com/career/...(...(read more)
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How to identify good keyword for your website?

Posted Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:16 PM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
In SEO, one of the main thing to perform before any activity is to do keyword analysis. Keyword analysis will determine the route you take for future SEO actions and also how you model the type of content you want to publish on your website. The first...(...(read more)
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Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 & Unity 1.2

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:39 PM from Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog
Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 Hands-on Labs for Unity 1.2 | What’s Enterprise Library | What’s Unity | Content of this Release | Goals | FAQs | About patterns...(read more)
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Running mini - campaign does help in terms of getting more visitors to your site!

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:11 PM from Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore
Follow up to the blog post I’ve made here: http://cloudfex.com/cs/blogs/cloud/archive/2009/03/30/start-with-seo-in-mind-to-get-more-traffic-to-your-blog.aspx The blog is started on the 19th March and I’ve been tracking the progress closely for the past...(...(read more)
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