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Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp – Free Training
967 days
Free Developer Training for Windows 7 Developers in LA Area.
“Jump-start your Windows 7 experience by joining some of the top Windows
7 engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan,
for an intense, high quality boot camp. Whether you are looking to
create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an
application developer looking to leapfrog past your competition, this
FREE Boot Camp can get you from zero to hero in less than eight hours!
This fast-paced Windows 7 marathon will cover it all including: (1)
Kernel and architectural improvements, (2) new shell integration
points: taskbar, libraries and search, and (3) applied tips for getting
the most out of today’s hardware with the sensor & location
platform, multitouch, and the new graphics libraries (Direct2D, DirectX
11) that take advantage of the GPU. Whether you’re a C++, C# or Visual
Basic developer, building a .NET or a Win32 application, we’ll give you
actionable tips to get the most out of the Windows platform.”
How to Register:
Yes, you’ll have to register through the regular registration site.
Simply select “pre-conference workshop only” as your registration type
and when you get to the workshop selection page of the registration
form, you’ll be able to pick the Windows 7 bootcamp as a free item. The
workshop is indeed on Monday Nov 16th.
Details here: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/WKSP08
Windows Azure – The Cloud Computing Platform; OS for the Cloud Era
1299 days
At PDC08 keynote, Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft has just announced the CTP launch of Windows Azure – The Cloud Computing Platform. In his words, its the ‘World of parallel computing and world of horizontal scale” and Azure is the answer to cloud computing needs for the service age. It’s a hosted ‘app-engine’ style cloud services housed in the microsoft data centers, first in the US and then internationally. However, its offers WAY beyond what an “app-engine” can do.
Windows Azure, dubbed as “the operating system for the cloud” allows, Windows Azure manages the complexity of data center management and cloud hosting and allows you to focus on the app development. The key features/points as are follows.
- Automated Service Management
- Scalable Hosting
- Manage Services, not just servers
- Service Model and Code
- High Availability
- Rich Developer Experience (test it from ur local machine using Visual Studio)
Windows Azure Hello World app can be seen here. hellocloud.cloudapp.net.
Ray demonstrated adding new nodes to the cloud via the management console. In his words, “it’s (adding nodes) is so easy, even a CEO can do it”. It’s going to be an open platform offer REST Command line interfaces and management instrumentation via Windows Azure Development Fabric. The Operating System for the Cloud leverages Oslo based modeling which “fundamentally modifies the way we code today”. A strong statement, let’s see how it unfolds over time.
I am blogging this at a time when there are only 256 entries if you Google “Windows Azure” which is going to change very very fast. I’ll keep posting as we at PDC gets early access to Azure CTP and get to host and play with this exciting new platform.
Azure Service Platform
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
Windows Azure
http://www.azure.com/
Photos of the presentation are here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68816&l=ce60f&id=565127783
My PDC08 Schedule – aka dataset for an NP-Hard TSP Problem
1299 days
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This is my tentative schedule for the PDC’08. Listing of all the sessions I want to attend however this requires human cloning and hence I might be watching streaming of the sessions I am unable to attend due to these scheduling conflicts.
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