Next up is Don Box and Chris Anderson on Codename “Oslo”. Stay tuned – live blogging. Don Box – Distinguished Engineer Chris Anderson – Partner Architect A Lap Around The Azure Services Platform NO Powerpoints on stage! Only VS2010 – DEV 10! Standards: Uri’s, HTTP & XML My left arm is killing me – think [...]
Live blogging – clean up later: Sorry, no pictures today – I had to leave the camera back at the hotel for charging Go find the live stream. First off: Ray Ozzie Yesterday: computing foundation Today: User Interface Front-end innovation – client OS – personal computing PC – Phone – Web * Full and [...]
Live from the session: Will cleanup later: evolution 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0 impedence mismatch – programming languages and data LINQ Trends: Declarative / Dynamic / Concurrent Declarative Programming Imperative –> Declarative How - What Dynamic Languages * Simple and succinct * Implicitly typed * Meta-programming * No compilation Static Languages * Robust * [...]
Microsoft’s new services platform US first – rest of the world later CTP now fraction of functionality now
Ok, just a couple of lines before I head out for some lunch. Arrived about an hour ago. My room is on the 9th floor and really really good – I got both cabled and wireless connection, a large LCD TV, 2x120cm beds and the best; an electronic toilet seat with a heating, bidet and [...]
The flight from EWR was only half an hour delayed – nothing compared to yesterday’s “delay & stay-over at the Sheraton” marathon (no pun intended). The food served on board is *not impressive; we got a tray with warm Egg & Cheese biscuit, a small muffin, a non-fat Yogurt (A product that really should be [...]
Ok, got up at 0450AM local time, took a shower and packed my stuff. Left for EWR at 0530AM and here I am eating breakfast at a French-inspired baguette shop. Ate a multi-grain baguette with roast beef & basil pesto – it was not bad, but not great either (I’m really no early breakfast man [...]
Continental Airlines flight CO39 from OSL to EWR that (that I happened to be on today) was delayed about 50 minutes something that started a small chain reaction; I missed my connecting flight to LAX and when I went to the rebooking desk I was told that I already was booked for the first flight [...]
Ok, it’s been a bit quiet on the blog the last week, basically caused by too much to do @home (Torill has been sick, so there’s been extra stuff to do…) Now it’s 10:15PM or so here in Norway and I’m leaving Oslo Airport Gardermoen (OSL) at 11:25AM tomorrow morning, heading for LAX via EWR. [...]
On September 30th 2008, Steve Ballmer held the keynote at MSDN Live Oslo. The Norwegian .NET User Group leaders where seated on two of the front rows, and had a great view of the “show”. Right after the keynote, we were rushed out to a backstage area where we got a handshake from the man [...]