The Onward March of the Cloud

Nov 08, 10 The Onward March of the Cloud

Posted by in Tech Stuff, TechEd 2010

Today was the official start of the TechEd with a keynote speech in the afternoon. In 2008 whilst attending the PDC in LA we were present when Microsoft launched Azure and announced nothing less than a complete re-focus of their core business model away from software supplier to a service provider … in the shape of “The...

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Gadget Utopia !

May 28, 10 Gadget Utopia !

Posted by in General Tech Stuff, Tech Stuff

It’s here … !!!! A couple of weeks ago I put my name down on a short list at our local Apple store for a 64GB wi-fi iPad, Its the UK launch day and I’ve been allocated one .…… wooo hoo! 😀 It is VERY impressive and causing quite a stir, I had no less than 5 people surrounding me in the office just opening the box...

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Its here at last ….

Jul 02, 09

The long awaited iPhone 3.0 update is here and hot on it’s heals is the iPhone-dev teams jailbreak and unlock. My phone has duely been updated, jailbroken and unlocked. To do this you need to : 1. Install v3.0 via iTunes 2. Download the torrent for redsn0w 3. Install redsn0w to jailbreak the OS ( this also adds Cydia) 4....

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New Year ….. new gadget

Jan 08, 09 New Year ….. new gadget

Posted by in General Tech Stuff, Tech Stuff

Woohoooo !!!  …. finally got my brand spanking new iPhone unlocked. I bought it in London back in October before flying off to the PDC in LA. At that point the boys in the iphone-devteam had only a partial solution to unlocking it, so I was stuck with a very sexy looking PDA & iPod but no phone(unless of course I wanted...

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WF in the Cloud …

Oct 30, 08 WF in the Cloud …

Posted by in PDC 2008, Tech Stuff

The last session of the conference I went to was on deploying & running WFs in the Cloud (aka Azure). Azure is able to host a number of different services : .NET Services; Live Services (part of MS Live data eg credentials contacts etc etc) & SQL Services. WFs are hosted directly inside a runtime provided by the .NET...

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Manbag heaven ?

Oct 29, 08 Manbag heaven ?

Posted by in PDC 2008, Tech Stuff

This year rather than give out the usual rucksack or laptop bags to all delegates MS have opted for …. you guessed it …. the “Manbag” So (Kieren) if you want to be one of 4000 developers sporting a shiny new “Manbag” then L.A. is clearly the place to be! Below we can see Faheem modelling the...

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WF & WCF 4.0

Oct 29, 08 WF & WCF 4.0

Posted by in PDC 2008, Tech Stuff

The good news is that in the next version of the framework WF & WCF will be even more closely linked than in 3.5. In addition a lot of the plumbing & infrastructure code that I had to write for Rio should (in theory ;-D  ) be provided for us in a new toolset codenamed “Dublin”. This is a set of tools to extend...

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Topics Today

Oct 29, 08

Today we hope to cover :- WCF4.O: building wcb services with wf in microsoft .net 4.0 iis 7.0 and beyond: the microsoft web platform roadmap improving code quality and code anaysis Cloud services best practices ASP.net dynamic data WF 4.0 extending with custom activities

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Windows 7

Oct 28, 08 Windows 7

Posted by in PDC 2008, Tech Stuff

Day 2 of the PDC & MS give a detailed demo of Windows 7. Win7 is likely to be released in beta early next year. Like all of  MS’s new platforms & products they’re being positioned to be part  of the new “Cloud” technology with direct interfaces to Windows Live, the Live Framework (new .NET interface...

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Windows Azure is launched

Oct 27, 08 Windows Azure is launched

Posted by in PDC 2008, Tech Stuff

1st day of PDC & MS announce the release of their new Windows Azure platform (part of what they are terming their new Cloud technology). It’s pretty cool and if it does what they say it’ll do then it will allow developers to pretty much scale their apps out across the globe as required. The concept is that Azure is...

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