R&D » PDC http://blog.adnanmasood.com Adnan on Technology, Research & Development Thu, 17 May 2012 15:39:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp – Free Training http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2009/09/24/windows-7-developer-boot-camp-free-training/ http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2009/09/24/windows-7-developer-boot-camp-free-training/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:48:36 +0000 Adnan Masood http://www.adnanmasood.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0096a12d-d54e-4280-893e-7e7a5eb711f0 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

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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

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]]> http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2008/10/27/windows-azure-the-cloud-computing-platform-os-for-the-cloud-era/feed/ 0 My PDC08 Schedule – aka dataset for an NP-Hard TSP Problem http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2008/10/27/my-pdc08-schedule-aka-dataset-for-an-np-hard-tsp-problem/ http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2008/10/27/my-pdc08-schedule-aka-dataset-for-an-np-hard-tsp-problem/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:38:19 +0000 Adnan Masood http://www.adnanmasood.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a53185c5-ca57-4eec-b3dd-d47832f77be5
Schedule for<br /> Adnan Masood

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.

PDC08 Schedule for Adnan Masood

Monday, October 27
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

 

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Hall A
 

 

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
A Lap around Cloud Services Part 1 Petree Hall CD
 
Live Labs Web Sandbox: Securing Mash-ups, Site Extensibility, and Gadgets 408B
 

 

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks 403AB
 

 

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap 153
 
The Future of C# Petree Hall CD
 

 

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications 153
 

 

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service Petree Hall CD
 
Framework Design Guidelines 403AB
 
Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 502A
 
Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies 411
 

 

Tuesday, October 28
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

 

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Hall A
 

 

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote Hall A
 

 

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

 

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application 501B
 
WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale 515B
 
Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo’s Wiimote 403AB
 

 

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
SQL Server 2008: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization 515A
 
How to Develop Supercomputer Applications 408A
 

 

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

 

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Architecting Services for the Cloud Petree Hall CD
 
ASP.NET and JQuery 403AB
 

 

Wednesday, October 29
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

 

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Hall A
 

 

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Service Bus Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery 406A
 
Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio Petree Hall CD
 

 

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Showcase: Cloud Computing Platform Enables Next Generation Conferencing Solutions 408A
 
Improving Code Quality with Code Analysis 409A
 

 

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale 403AB
 
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability 153
 

 

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer Petree Hall CD
 
Developing with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET for Server Core 515A
 
The Future of C# [REPEAT] 502A
 

 

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Mono and .NET 515B
 
Architecture without Big Design Up Front 403AB
 
A Lap around “Oslo” [REPEAT] 502A
 

 

Thursday, October 30
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud 515B
 

 

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
SQL Server Data Services : Under the Hood 404A
 
Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services 153
 
PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services 406A
 
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server: How We Use It at Microsoft 151
 
Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation with Pex 403AB
 

 

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Under the Hood: Inside the Cloud Computing Hosting Environment 151
 
ASP.NET: Cache Extensibility 403AB
 

 

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications 515B
 

 

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Cloud Computing: Programming in the Cloud Petree Hall CD
 

 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

 

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
An Introduction to Microsoft F# 502A
 

 

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