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Teaching Kids to Code – Graduating from SmallBasic
29 October 09 09:34 PM | llangit | 2 Comments   
Regular blog readers may know of my work with Microsoft’s free kid’s coding IDE, SmallBasic as a tool to introduce the fun of coding to DigiGirlz .  As I work with my volunteer developer teams on improving the way we work SmallBasic (more on that Read More...
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SoCalDevGal answers your Windows 7 Developer Questions
27 October 09 07:18 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Wow what a launch today in Orange, CA!  Thanks to the standing-room only audience this morning.  Because of the crowd size, you were so kind as to send your questions via text messages.  I didn’t have time to answer all of your many questions Read More...
SoCalDevGal shares Windows 7 Launch LIVE
23 October 09 05:19 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Well, it’s not me presenting, but it is the same content.  If you couldn’t make it to the Windows 7 launch event next Monday, October 26th starting at 9am, you can watch the live stream of the presentation of my developer evangelist colleague Daniel Read More...
SoCalDevGal recommends the new Windows 7 Online Training
21 October 09 09:12 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
  Wow – this is GREAT! MSDN Channel 9 has a new online training center for you (developers) to learn the Windows 7 APIs.  The topics included are multi touch, taskbar, sensor / location, ribbon, shell libraries, background services, instrumentation Read More...
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SoCalDevGal presents Windows 7 Developer APIs
20 October 09 07:02 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
Next week Monday and Wednesday, I’ll be presenting at the MSDN launch events for developers for Windows 7.  Both events are registered full already – however, I am posting my decks here for you.  Also we may be recording one set of launch sessions, Read More...
SQL Azure – Let’s Get Started
16 October 09 06:07 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   
As you may know we’ve announced that Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azure , will have commercial availability as of the first day of the upcoming Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles on November 17th, 2009.  In addition Read More...
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TeachCamp 2010
13 October 09 07:17 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
You may know that I've led Microsoft's annual events for high-school aged girls (in SoCal) DigiGirlz for 3 years now. I will continue to do this, plan for 2010 is to host three one-day events (in April) in LA, Irvine and San Diego for DigiGirlz. Also, Read More...
SoCalDevGal is getting ready for the Cloud
13 October 09 04:42 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
As you may already know, we (Microsoft) have announced that we will have ‘general availability’ of our version of cloud computing, Windows Azure , on the opening day of the Professional Developer’s Conference (Nov 17). As we prepare to ‘go-to-market’ Read More...
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SoCalDevGal answers ‘What is Windows Azure?’ in 5 minutes
04 October 09 06:03 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
Slides from #CloudCampSVCC – 5 minute time limit for my lightning talk.  It was also filmed, I’ll add the link after it’s published. What is Windows Azure? View more presentations from SoCalDevGal . Read More...
What is Gemini? Deck from #SVCC
03 October 09 08:56 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   
I presented at #SVCC introducing Gemini – here’s the deck. Gemini Introduction View more presentations from SoCalDevGal . Read More...
Introduction to SQL Azure
02 October 09 05:22 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   
Deck from my talk at #CloudCampLA.  TechZulu also recorded the talk, I will post the link here after they edit and post that video. SQL Azure View more presentations from SoCalDevGal . Read More...
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Where is SoCalDevGal? – SoCal Developer Events for Oct 2009
28 September 09 06:22 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   
By popular demand I am attempting to aggregate SoCal Developer events on a monthly basis.  For October 2009 as follows below. I’ll be happy to add any developer events I may have missed, just send me mail via my blog. Week 1 (Sept 27 – Oct 3) Mon, Read More...
SoCalDevGal looks at BitLocker for USB drives in Windows 7
21 September 09 12:42 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   
I’ve wanted to play around with this feature (also called ‘BitLocker-To-Go’ ), but hadn’t had time until today.  I’ll recap what I’ve found.  First, and probably most important, is that BitLocker is only available as part of Windows 7 Ultimate Read More...
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SoCalDevGal pushes her little NetBook – what can it do for developers?
14 September 09 01:49 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   
Regular readers will note that I recently purchased an inexpensive NetBook and upgraded the OS from XP to Windows 7 Home (blog detail here ). First I tested my NetBook out for plain old web browsing.  It worked just fine with one exception – some Read More...
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SoCalDevGal works with virtualization in Windows 7
13 September 09 07:37 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   
I am working on setting up my first VPC in Windows 7 and I found a couple of things had changed from Vista and wanted to share here.  I realize that for application virtualization, ITPros would most often be using Windows 2008 Server, however, developers Read More...
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