From the Editor -
News and Notes from Developer Evangelist Bruno Terkaly
Volume 13, Number 10 - May 11, 2009
On April 21 in San Francisco I sponsored an event with Juval Lowy about
the smart grid and the next boom in software. Unless you've been living in
a cave, you've probably noticed that scores of smart grid startups are
sprouting virtually everywhere. Investors are shifting their focus from
high tech to alternative energy and smart grid. The government has and will
continue to invest billions in new infrastructure. Tycoons and symbols of
the dot-com era and the Internet are jumping in. In short, the Valley is
experiencing nothing short of a new gold rush, whilst the rest of the world
economy is unraveling.
Universal Agreement about the Future
Although we had minimal marketing, the user group community really stepped
up to the plate and got about 100 attendees to show up. This is a great reason
to be part of your user group community. I read the evaluations of the
attendees; they loved the event. If you are a developer who is overwhelmed by
all the new technologies coming out of Redmond and elsewhere, now is a great
time to learn from others and to leverage the community to help you learn.
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How the User Group (BayNETUG.org) Can Help You
The day following the smart grid session, Juval presented at the South Bay
User Group and discussed Azure's Service Bus architecture and how to implement
custom applications. Everyone agrees that one of the key pillars of Microsoft's
cloud platform (Azure) is the "Service Bus." The Service Bus is what allows
everything to communicate with standard Internet protocols in a safe and
secure way. It will enable "on premises" applications hidden behind nats and
firewalls to communicate with each other through a relay and will connect
disparate applications and data stores with the cloud. This is a very hard
problem to solve yourself.
Sign up today
and become a member.
Unfortunately, by the time you read this, I will have delivered my advanced
debugging session, where I teach techniques on using Visual Studio to find bugs
and solve problems. Essentially, I cover most of the key concepts in debugging.
You can read about it here.
These techniques work regardless of the project type or language in Visual
Studio, including C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and VBScript. You
could debug WCF, WPF, Web forms, console applications, and Web pages, to
name a few.
Free Event: MSDN Events Unleashed: Best of MIX - Training in the heart of Silicon Valley
June 16, 1:00 P.M., Microsoft Conference Center (SVC), Microsoft Corporate Campus, Mountain View, CA
• What's New in Silverlight 3? (Mike Hanley, Engineering Director at Vertigo)
Are you interested in building business-focused Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)? This
is about Web-based business applications that go way beyond typical Web forms applications.
• Building Web Applications with Windows Azure (Microsoft Developer
Evangelist Bruno Terkaly)
This session begins with a brief overview of Azure. Then we will illustrate,
through demo, how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up. We
will illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services, Web
pages, and Silverlight components, as well as how to deploy your solution to
the cloud.
• MVC 1.0 vs. ASP.NET Web Forms (Doug Holland, Intel Software Architect and
Visual C# MVP)
Have you heard about the new ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft and wondered
what it was all about? Are you curious whether this replaces ASP.NET Web Forms?
We will demystify.
This is an event you cannot miss. Reserve your seat,
and add the date to your Outlook calendar.
Juval Lowy and I: ConnectivityWeek - Smart Grid Part Deux
June 8 - 11, Santa Clara, CA
IT can help make the energy system more efficient, as it has done in past
decades in such areas as supply chain and enterprise management.
ConnectivityWeek 2009, the only event focused on the intersection of energy
and information technology, will explore how this can be achieved. Keynotes
include Bob Metcalf and Juval Lowy. ConnectivityWeek features over 180
speakers from IT and energy space. A 40% discount is offered to user group
members. Learn more in the
preliminary agenda.
Send me an e-mail and let me know what's on your mind. E-mail me at
bterkaly@microsoft.com.
Thanks for reading,
Bruno
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