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- I'm on MSDN's Endpoint.TVYesterday
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During a recent trip to Redmond, I was interviewed by Ron Jacobs for his Endpoint.TV series.
I had just been shown a bunch of new things, was full of excitement, and we had a great chat about models, clouds, workflow... all my current hot-buttons :)
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-WCF-and-WF-40-First-Look-with-Brian-Loesgen/
Enjoy!
- San Diego: Connected Systems SIG meets tonight (Nov 11 2008), topic: Azure and cloud computingNovember 11
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The Windows Azure Platform and other Microsoft cloud offerings were announced at the recent Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles. This talk is an introduction to Microsoft's cloud computing platform, including Windows Azure, SQL Data Services and .NET Services. We'll explore the various components of the cloud computing platform, and describe their relationships and architectural significance. We'll also walk through the tools and technologies used to connect and manage the various cloud components. In addition to an architectural walkthrough, we'll also provide a number of demos that can be executed either on local developer machines or in the cloud after receiving a cloud account.
Speaker
Mickey Williams is the director of the Center of Excellence team at Neudesic. A Visual C# MVP, he has extensive experience building mission-critical applications on a wide variety of platforms, and has authored nine books on Windows programming.
When and Where
We'll be meeting on the 4th floor of the Microsoft La Jolla office. Pizza will be available at 6:00 PM. The meeting will start at 6:30 and end at 9 o'clock.
Technorati Tags - Some thoughts on Oslo...November 6
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In case you've been stranded on a distant planet or trapped in a parallel universe and hadn't heard the news, Microsoft unveiled Oslo at PDC last week.
I am a member of the Connected Systems Advisors. In that capacity, I have been actively involved in the Oslo initiative for over a year now, providing the Microsoft product teams with input and feedback as "Oslo" has moved through the development lifecycle. Now, finally, we can speak freely about this exciting set of technologies, an evolutionary change that I feel will affect most developers.
<disclaimer> NOTE: this post is about pre-release software. Change is CERTAIN </disclaimer>
Oslo is Microsoft's modeling platform, and consists of three parts:
- a repository (SQL Server)
- a modeling language ("M")
- a visual editor ("Quadrant")
Most developers are going to have a lot of new things to learn. This is a very ambitious and far-reaching initiative, encompassing many technologies. I think though that people that consider themselves "BizTalk people" will have an easier path, as they've already made some of the mind shifts required, but even for them, there's still a lot to learn.
Fasten your seat belts, paradigm shift ahead...
The new wave of technologies brings with it some changes in the way we think about, construct and manage applications. In my opinion, the top ones are:
- make modelin
- Microsoft "Oslo": What's in a Name?November 3
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When I blogged about the .NET Framework 4.0/Dublin announcement recently, I also mentioned that the code name "Oslo" has taken on a refined meaning. Since then, I've seen some confusion out there, and thought I would do a post that specifically addresses this change, as well as other recent name changes.
First off, the vision of what this new wave of technologies has not changed. The term "Oslo" used to refer to the entire technology stack that will make it so much easier to develop applications. Now, as we move through the development lifecycle, some items are migrating, quite naturally, into their ultimate ship vehicles. Some examples of things that were once under the "Oslo" umbrella, but have since migrated, include:
- WCF/WF enhancements (part of the .NET 4.0 framework)
- The runtime hosts for WCF/WF and models (part of the Windows Server application server, will be shipped as part of "Dublin" and beyond)
- Improved WCF/WF design/authoring experience (now part of Visual Studio 2010)
A nice side effect of all this is that the separate pieces are now decoupled from each other. There will be no "Big Bang Release" that will appear one day, the decoupled pieces can be delivered independent of each other. However, as all of this work is being done by Microsoft's Connected Systems Division, everybody's is talking to each other, and the end-go
- World meet Oslo. Oslo, meet the world.October 27
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Finally, details about Oslo are being made public..... For those of you who are not at PDC, here are some links you may want to check out:
The Oslo dev center is now live:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx
Cool new Oslo site from Connected Systems Div (see the cartoon “history of modeling” spoof video):
This is a start. There will be a lot more in days/weeks/years to follow.
Ladies and gentlemen of the dev community, fasten your seatbelts, you are about to evolve (again).