Pentru că uneori ne place să fim ahead of our times, am hotărât să organizăm probabil cel mai mare paralelizat eveniment pe care Microsoft Student Partners l-a găzduit vreodată în Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai. Este vorba despre Future Wave Technologies sau Tehnologii de Frontieră de la Micr...

cleantech, energy, wind Luke Timmerman wrote: British Columbia is bigger in land area than Washington, Oregon, and California combined, but has about one-tenth the total population. Yet pound-for-pound, our neighbor to the north appears to have its share of entrepreneurs thinking hard about energy a...

I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

I’m really enjoying Mary Jo Foley’s series of posts on Red Dog (aka Windows Azure) and even though I’ve worked closely with this team, I’ve learned a fair bit from the last two posts.   Part 1: Permanent Link to Red Dog- Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks- Part 2: How the Red D...

Recovering this morning from an amazing day at the DC MSDN Developer Conference in Reston, VA. I had a blast helping out with the keynote, presenting on Azure, and seeing and hanging out with so many folks from the Mid-Atlantic developer community. Also finally got a chance to put some faces with na...

Tomorrow morning I have my flight to Beijing, where I'll spend Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday spreading some Azure & Identity love. Wednesday night I have a redeye to Singapore where I'll do some more identity work and hopefully meet some old friends, like the mighty SG AE Linda: she was so nic...

There’s a lot of talk going on about the cloud and how it’s going to change how we use our applications and save our data. Well I’ve got an open request to any Windows developer who want to play around with Azure and Windows Live – I’ll even be the guinea pig for you. Come up with a way fo...

Following up from the previous post where I'd been trying to write a little bit of code that shares some photographs via the Live Mesh using a standard, installed, client application written in WPF. That all worked out fine but the main problem that I encountered was that I wanted to have a single M...

Silverlight 2.0 Release just came out and developers are creating great flashy websites using this great plug-in technology. Yet there isn’t much about how Silverlight would provide a architecture to improve performance by using the clients CPU instead of the server running ASP.NET. The great comm...

My previous blog post (Some thoughts on Windows Azure) has generated some good comments. I was going to answer with a comment, but I wrote enough that I thought I’d just do a follow-up post. Jamie says “Sounds akin to Architecture:"convention over configuration" I'm wholly in favour of that.� ...