First of all, I want to thank Mike Swanson (@anyware) for his original work (e.g. for MIX09 and also for PDC09). Good stuff. That being said, I noticed that there were posted sessions missing–six altogether–from the 11/19/2009-dated batch files here; so, I thought I’d post my “fix”: PDC09DownloaderCSR.zip PDC09RenamerCSR.zip It may be worth noting that [...]
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More complete PDC09 downloader-renamer
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology
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Azure is like NT
November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Services, Technology
During the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler‘s leadership on both operating systems.) I think there is much to draw from this comparison where the [...]
Download PDC2008 presentations
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Technology
This is a community service announcement. Since I took the time to crack the download syntax for the PowerPoint decks presented this week at PDC, I thought I’d make my work publicly available. Here it is (i.e. sessions listed in alphabetically order with the session titles copied from the original master session list posted here, [...]
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Getting the clouds to rain (add value)
October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Services, Technology
Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value. Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part of [...]
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Head in the clouds
October 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Services, Technology
It appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions: Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson A Lap around Windows Azure “Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending [...]
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