Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink That fine chap http://twitter.com/serialseb is pulling together an interesting evening of fun on the Wednesday in London and I for one will definitely be there. Lots of goodness to learn about. If you are a .NET developer who still isn’t looking at Open Source, then the… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Microsoft is continuing to make significant investments in Datacenter technology and is focused on solving issues such as long lead times, significant up-front costs and over capacity. Enter the world of modular Datacenters and ITPACs – IT Pre-Assembled Components. In simple terms – air handling and… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink IronRuby is a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft’s Dynamic Language Runtime. The project’s #1 goal is to be a true Ruby implementation, meaning it runs existing Ruby code. Check out this summary of using the Ruby standard… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Time for another guest post (check out others in the series), this time bringing together the world of mocking with the world of Entity Framework. A big thanks to Moses for agreeing to do this. Unit Testing Entity Framework Dependent Code using TypeMock Isolator by Muhammad Mosa Introduction Unit testing data access code in my… [Read more…]
March 24, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [Did I overdo the use of FREE in the title? ] April 12th to 16th is Microsoft Tech Days – 5 days of sessions on Visual Studio 2010 through to Windows 7 Phone Series. Many of these days are now full (Tip – Thursday still has… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink At QCon in March we had a sample Azure application implemented in both Java and Ruby to demonstrate that the Windows Azure Platform is not just about .NET. The following is an interesting interview with Rob Blackwell, the R&D director of the partner who implemented the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink At QCon in March we had a booth focused on interoperability out of which came the idea to create an application implemented in both Java and Ruby on Rails, running on top of the Windows Azure Platform. Nothing fancy, just an application to capture attendees view… [Read more…]
March 21, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Last week (March 2010) I presented on Entity Framework 4 and the Windows Azure Platform at www.devweek.com. As usual, it was a great conference and I caught up with lots of old friends and made some new ones along the way. Entity Framework 4 Entity Framework… [Read more…]
March 17, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink The P&P team have started to share guidance on the Windows Azure Platform. They plan to group their efforts around: 1. Moving to the Cloud 2. Integrating with the Cloud 3. Leveraging the Cloud First up is a document which explains the capabilities and limitations of… [Read more…]
March 17, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink On Tuesday (16th March 2010) I presented on Azure to a none technical audience at the Cloud Computing Congress. Great audience, lots of folks, lots of questions during and after – although it did feel odd to do a session with no code Lots of people… [Read more…]
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