September 2008 - Posts

IE8 For Developers

IE8 For Developers

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Pete LaPage from the IE Team came to NYC to speak about Beta 2 of IE 8 and it's compatibility with web standards. He talked about IE8's support for new HTML5 tags, CSS 2.1 compliance, the DOM, web slices, Ajax and a developer Toolbar.
posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:10 AM by paul with 0 Comments

F# WiKi

Where to Start With F#

Robert Pickering, the author of Foundations of F# hosts an informative wiki; an excellent place to start learning F#.
posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:55 AM by paul with 0 Comments

American Innovation

Microsoft, Xerox Invest in Innovation

On a day when we learned that many of our legislative deregulators remain in denial, I have faith that American Innovation will inspire us. The oil crisis will not be alleviated by more oil, we need to invest in our future and invent renewable sources of energy and sell the technology to the world.
posted Monday, September 29, 2008 8:25 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview

Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management

All this week Channel 9 will be publishing new Visual Studio Team System 2010 videos.

posted Monday, September 29, 2008 11:37 AM by paul with 1 Comments

Springboard Series Videos

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable

Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts for a LIVE virtual roundtable to explore your top of mind performance issues, common misconfigurations, and tips on how to fix them. From boot times and applets to disk performance and battery life, find out how to optimize Windows Vista and what you can do to improve overall system performance.

Submit your performance questions live during the event or send them in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com.  Today at 9am PST

posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:31 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Telligent

Intel Capital to Acquire $20 Million Stake in Telligent

Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, today announced an agreement to acquire a $20 million stake in Telligent Systems, makers of social computing solutions and business intelligence tools. Based in Dallas, Telligent will utilize the funds to expand its sales teams and territories, including growth in international markets, as well as increase its marketing and advertising initiatives and product development plans.

We know Telligent’s Community Server, but did you know that they now have more than 3,000 customers using their blogging, Web discussions, Wiki, photo and videos platform. Congrats to Ron and Scott, who have been on my blog roll since the day I began blogging on their platform.

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:10 AM by paul with 0 Comments

WPF Pixel Shader

Nikola Mihaylov explains what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one.  He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel Shaders along with a custom VS project template to make it even easier.

In his demonstration Nikola shows off his own effects along with Anders Bursjöö’s Grayscale Effect and Rakesh Ravuri's Wave Reflection Effect.

posted Monday, September 22, 2008 12:13 PM by paul with 1 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo NYC a Huge Success

The first ever Web 2.0 Expo in NYC was a huge success, it was SXSW meets the PC Expo. The Wi-Fi network was the best the Javits Center has ever experienced, proving that combining Web 2.0 and Interop was a great idea.

The atendees came from everywhere, as many crossed the ocean from Europe as crossed the continent from San Francisco.
 
The Web 2.0 crowd can be classified in three categories; creatives, techies and money guys. The creativies would be the Web designers, writers, graphic and video artists. The techies are the developers and the network geeks who make the web possible. The money guys are the VC's and the marketing-PR bots that serve them.
posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:32 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo NYC Day One

It was a tremendous day today at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City with outstanding sessions from Jason Fried and Joshua Schachter, guys I met at past Web 2.0 conferences. There's a great crowd here at the Javits Center about three thousands miles from Wall Street. Creative people, developers, marketers and even a few VC's are bouncing around the place.

I shot a video of David Heinemeier Hansson Go REST with Rails talk and nice one of his friend Jason Fried's Keynote.
posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:32 PM by paul with 0 Comments

F# in NYC

Luke Hoban from the Microsoft F# team is in town, and has offered to talk about F#:

This talk will introduce Microsoft's new language F#, a typed functional programming language for the .NET Framework that combines the succinctness, expressivity, and compositionality of functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, interoperability, tools, and object model of.NET. We'll take a look at why Microsoft is adding the language to the suite of those available on .NET, and at some of basic language constructs that make programming in F# a dream.

We'll be at at Microsoft's offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas at 6:30, talk begins at 7PM.
posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:10 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Mesh Session Video

LIve Mesh session at the Vista Squad user group

A few weeks ago Paolo did a Live Mesh Session for the Vista Squad user group which the guys recorded.

The recording is now available here in HD quality 

posted Monday, September 15, 2008 11:28 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Virtual Tech Days

.NET, Visual Studio and a few things....

Spread across 3 Days, 4 Tracks Virtual Tech Days on September 17, 18 & 19 is covering close to 50 deep technical sessions by experts on Windows Client, Web Development, Virtualization, Mobile & Database.
posted Friday, September 12, 2008 12:01 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo NYC

The Web 2.0 Expo is at last making it's New York debut and I'll be there meeting people and seeing what's new. 

Web 2.0 is all about the medium we use everyday and in New York designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists will meet-up and discuss how to make the experience better for all of us

You can Follow me on Twitter and I'll do my best to keep you informed.

posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:13 AM by paul with 0 Comments

RUGS

The Real-time Universal Gaming System RUGS has just been anounced by Mytopia as a way of helping the world play together. RUGS is a framework for rapid rich media creation across the Web with support for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm OS and Android.
posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:51 AM by paul with 0 Comments

N3UG Meeting

Tonight's talk walks through building a new InfoPath 2007 form, Web Service, .NET Class, Workflow and LDAP query with Visual Studio 2008. The form will call web service on opening and retrieve the current user Active Directory information and State list from SQL 2005 database to populate an InfoPath form drop down list.

Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions
posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:32 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Project Rosetta

Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. In this Channel9 interview, Adam Kinny talks with Rick Barraza, the author of From Flash to Silverlight.
posted Monday, September 08, 2008 4:04 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Cloud Services Blog

Turning our Attention to the Cloud

Bill Zack our NY/NJ/CT Architect Evangelist has begun to blog about Microsoft's Cloud Services. There's going to be a lot of new related features on Cloud Services announced at this year's Professional Developer Conference, the PDC in October.  A quick glance at the agenda page and by selecting the Cloud Services hyperlink you will see what's going on. 

posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:31 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Vista Advertising

Advertising campaign starts in the US with "Shoe Circus"

I was watching my New York Giants play the Washington Redskins in the NFL's first game of the seasion last night and just before the end of the first half of play this comical comercial came on.
posted Friday, September 05, 2008 10:30 AM by paul with 0 Comments

SQL Server Data Mining Services

Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining Services

Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time

The SQL Server Data Mining team is working to extend the power and ease of use of SQL Server Data Mining to the Cloud. The goal is provide services that allow you to build rich, predictive applications without worrying about server infrastructure, and showcase these services with cool applications that give you a glimpse of what’s possible.
posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:01 PM by paul with 0 Comments

NYC SHAREPOINT UG

Tonights meeting: Using Social Sites to Extend MOSS with Social Feedback

NewsGator's Director of Product Management, Ashley Roach, will discuss and demonstrates how the use of social sites can extend MOSS 2007 with social feedback like bookmarking, tagging, commenting, social networking, and community functionality by leveraging the SharePoint platform and social computing services. SharePoint is a great foundation for social computing application development and can be easily extended through web parts and web services.

Register here and we hope to see you tonight!
posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:15 AM by paul with 0 Comments