I ran into Shoshanna Budzianowski today at PDC. She and I hooked through linked in after a post about OSLO months ago. She is Product Unit Manager, Repository and Modeling at Microsoft Corporation and involved in M. We had a nice talk not just about M, but also kids and so on. She also introduced me to Don Box who even autographed a OLSO Model Language book for me. I have got two copies now of
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
PDC So far
Posted on 08:55 by Unknown
I keep appearing in some ones blogs constantly everyday. I do not know the guy. Look at blog posts of Robert Jan who does describe the experience here at PDC very well. Today PDC will kick off with a key note by Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research. I keep you posted.Technorati: PDC 2008
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Cloud Computing
Posted on 17:18 by Unknown
At PDC I bought this book called 'Cloud Computing Web-based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online'. I read two chapters before I went to the first keynote on monday. Concept of cloud computing Ray Ozzie explained just really falls in place with content in first two chapters. This book is focused on 'Cloud Computing' in general looking at Microsoft, Amazons and Google's
Microsoft OSLO available
Posted on 14:15 by Unknown
Finally I can witness one of the first sessions about OSLO at PDC; now I and rest of world get to actually see it. There will be another frenzy and plethora of blog posts being shed next couple of hours. OLSO is M, Quadrant and Repository; language, tools and store/share models. More than 150 Dutch people are here and some already blogged about OSLO, therefore I am going to be lazy and refer to
Monday, 27 October 2008
The Keynote
Posted on 11:46 by Unknown
I will be short since there will be a blog frenzy over Microsoft Azure. During keynote this cloud windows platform new name was announced. So Windows Cloud OS is now: Azure. Available only PDC attendees for now, but later on for general public. Technorati: Microsoft AzurePDC 2008
Sunday, 26 October 2008
WCF History Lesson
Posted on 13:38 by Unknown
Pre-conference session of Microsoft Software Legend Juval Lowy today seems more a history lesson of WCF than something completely new. All stuff that was shown and demoed was .NET 3.0. If you read his book WCF Programming than you have a the knowledge all attendees got today during this pre-conference session. For me it was/is history repeats it-self and story about WCF and origins is the same.
Touch down in LA
Posted on 06:53 by Unknown
I have arrived in LA as you can see on the pictures. Impressive view from the plane on LA when we landed. I had a taxi trip to hotel with Edward and some old colleagues from him Robert Jan en Rutger. All of us went for a nice meal at Mexican Grill downtown. Today I will attend pre-conference WCF.
Friday, 24 October 2008
Ready for take-off
Posted on 06:59 by Unknown
Just came back home after a few days with the family in Limburg. I packed my bags and am ready to leave to Los Angeles to attend PDC. Sunday I kick off with pre-conference; WCF. Monday to Thursday I will focus on OSLO, SSDS, Windows Cloud and Dublin . See you there.Technorati:PDC 2008
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Microsoft 2.0 continued
Posted on 07:51 by Unknown
Yesterday I received Microsoft 2.0 book by Mary Jo Foley. I have already read half the book by now and I do not think it will be the book be reading on my way to LA. Book starts a bit slow on why it was written and she was not able to talk to big shots at Microsoft like Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer and so on about which way Microsoft I heading in the future. After first pages it started to get
Thursday, 16 October 2008
SOA and cost reduction
Posted on 00:32 by Unknown
Will SOA lead to cost reduction? Recently I followed this discussion (answers on the question) amongst some of my colleagues. Well on the long-run this may be one of the drivers to adopt SOA, but an enterprise will need to invest upfront. In adaption of SOA investments in legacy systems are not down the drain. SOA is not applied inside enterprises to rip and replace all legacy systems.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Microsoft codename Dublin: you want to know some more !
Posted on 09:51 by Unknown
Today I found some interesting posts about Dublin. Very interesting one comparison of BizTalk and Dublin. Another one by Darren Jefford quote: ‘BizTalk is by no means dead’. And last but not least this one by Damir Dobric. In less than two weeks more information during PDC will be available.Technorati:PDC 2008
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Microsoft 2.0
Posted on 23:36 by Unknown
As PDC is coming closer I noticed that Mary-Jo Foley blog all about Microsoft is a good resource to track to news about PDC and coming announcements (like Windows Cloud). She also wrote a book a book called ‘Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era’, which I recently ordered through Amazon. Notice 2.0 version like web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and so; everything seems
WSCF Blue
Posted on 06:03 by Unknown
WSCF.Blue has recently been made public (available) on Codeplex. My colleague Edward Bakker is project leader on this project and I am happy to join in his conquest to make this a better tool. Together with Buddhike de Silva, Benjamin Santosh and hopefully some other developers I hope to make this a very useful tool as Christian Weyer states in his blog post. He is the 'father' of this project. I
Monday, 13 October 2008
Platform as a Service: PaaS
Posted on 01:41 by Unknown
Today I received an message through LinkedIn from a BizTalk colleague in the field Jonathan Gurevich about Cloud Platforms. I got this message from him concerning my blog post Window Cloud. David Chappell has written a whitepaper 'A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms'. In this paper I saw terms like on-demand platform and platform as a service (PaaS). Last one a new acronym to be added to a
Saturday, 11 October 2008
OLSO CTP
Posted on 00:09 by Unknown
At PDC a mere two weeks away attendees will get a first-hand look at OLSO through a CTP. Three technologies that will make up OSLO will be in it:• A language – codenamed “M” – that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages (DSLs) and data models • A relational repository – that makes models available to both tools and platform components • A tool – codenamed “Quadrant” – that
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Windows Cloud
Posted on 18:42 by Unknown
I recently found something interesting while browsing through the web. Something called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). What is this? Well it is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Ok and it seems that one is able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance
Monday, 6 October 2008
First SharePoint Services 3.0 HOL Experience
Posted on 04:47 by Unknown
In my previous post I downloaded a VPC from Microsoft ‘Developing with SharePoint Services 3.0 and visual studio 2008’ together with some hands on labs. On my laptop containing a Vista OS I did the following:1) Deploy VPC2) Start WSS-July2008-V73) Install Office On VPC (Plus version MSDN)4) Unpack HOL5) Start VS 2008 and exerciseI created a web part through HOL called HelloWorld, deployed it and
Developing with sharepoint services 3.0 and visual studio 2008
Posted on 02:10 by Unknown
VS 2008 has been released for some while and same accounts for SharePoint Services 3.0. As a developer or experienced .NET Architect and so on you might want to know how to develop with SharePoint Services. I am interested how and therefore I downloaded a time limited VHD (30th September 2009) containing Windows SharePoint Services SP1, Visual Studio 2008. I also wanted some Hands-on Labs to with
Thursday, 2 October 2008
PDC Dublin and .NET 4.0
Posted on 00:47 by Unknown
I survived yet again another edition of Munich Oktoberfest. Now it is back to life and hard work. PDC is next trip I will make and I read some new announcements of .NET 4.0 and that there will preview of this with something called Dublin. Nice codename, I visited Dublin last year I must say a great town. Connect new technology to such a codename must promise something. Dublin as it is stated on
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