The book Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration is now available with 20% discount for SilverlightShow community. Use code 20SilvShow at checkout on Packt Publishing website (make sure you are logged in before applying the promo code).

The code is valid by the end of October. Packt Publishing has free shipping to US, UK, Europe and selected Asian countries (see full shipping policy).

Released in July 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration focuses on the integration of Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 and provides step-by-step guidelines for implementing Silverlight RIAs in SharePoint. It is filled with real-world examples that depict the various techniques for interacting with data and services provided by this powerful business collaboration platform, for the enterprise and the Internet.

Expect soon a sample chapter from the book published on SilverlightShow.

 

 

We’re pleased to announce a new product targeted towards business owners that we just launched a few days ago called Cashie. Cashie is a hosted ecommerce service that gives you everything you need to add a professional shopping experience to your website or blog. Cashie hosts all of the code and functionality so there is no additional software to [...]

The week before last, I was in Ghent to teach my Introduction to iPhone & iPad Development course. This is the same class that I'm teaching next week in Brighton, in the UK (and there are still seats available if you want to grab one.) The 3-Day workshop in Ghent was a resounding success and I [...]

If you are looking for a way to have devices talk to each other with out the devices knowing about each other check out this post. There are various options but in this post I will talk about using Flash Player's multicast ability. The underlying API for this Flash Player 10.1 feature is NetGroup and [...]

I got a new Wifi Kindle two days ago, here are some of the thoughts on the device after using it for about a day and half. The good parts: It is really small. It is about the size of … Continue reading →

Here are some tips regarding my way of managing Dynamic Flex ToolTips and, in particular, how to update content of a visible tooltip. Static vs Dynamic Flex ToolTip The most common usage of tooltips is to provide hints or simplified help. When hovering on a particular button, for example, the tooltip can provide more details on the [...]Dynamic Flex Tooltips (Updating a Visible Tooltip) from @blogagic on Blogagic.com.

While I have seen references to Diffie-Hellman before, I honestly knew very little about it until this week. After seeing it mentioned on stackoverflow.com, I decided to do some research. Now I am pretty sure this protocol is not available in the standard edition of Adobe ColdFusion, and contrary to popular opinion, I have my doubts about its availability in Enterprise version as well. Though admittedly, I could not find any solid references one way or the other. So I could be wrong. Anyway, since there is a plethora of implementations in the java world, I decided to explore that

An update to the Adobe AIR Launchpad Beta has been made available today and includes the following fixes/changes in version 1.0.1: Fixed Windows OS path issue for generated icon paths set in the app-descriptor.xml file. Paths will now have the correct path separator. Allow other badge graphics than jpg to be used and named with [...]

I’m pleased to say that the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 has been revised to address a number of bugs discovered after the initial release.  It’s ready for download from Adobe Labs. [Via Zorana Gee]

A short while ago, Forrester Research released its first ever Forrester Wave Report dedicated to evaluating online testing vendors. For those of us making a living developing, marketing and selling these solutions, this report is an excellent acknowledgement that more and more companies are getting serious about building better online experiences for their customers and [...]

I’ve often said that I have no idea how I developed web sites before the Firebug extension for Firefox came along. I think it’s the single tool that I use the most. It’s also the reason that I’m still using Firefox for my development browser, even though Chrome is now faster and my browser of [...]Posted from kay lives hereFirebug Lite–for every browser

Try a file-upload solution that uses Ajax to provide continuous feedback to the user as the file is being uploaded to the server.

Attest 3.0 is a Flex 4 mock exam and study guide for the Flex 4 certification. The free/trial version contains one mini exam with 30 questions and 99 days of study material. The paid version is 20.00 USD and contains full 50 question exams as well as 25 question mini exams. You can also randomize [...]

You can tell MAX is around the corner since a significant portion of the posts this week come from Adobe Platform Evangelists. This week included tons of activity in the mobile space but also a quite a few great Flash and ActionScript 3 posts. As always, if you have something you’d like me to share in upcoming weeks, feel free to email me, post in he comments or dm/reply to me on Twitter.Cool Mobile StuffOne of my personal favorite posts this week came from Mark Doherty, an Adobe Platform Evangelist. It is a follow-up post to a prior post that

I made a decision today. I deactivated comments today. This was a hard decision for me, as the comments were open for over six years now and i've got many many good comments. But i don't want to offer a stage for been-there-done-that-knowing-all-better's writing on every stage you offer to them, these armchair-CEOs, people going berzerk because of being disappointed about the things have changed any longer. Feel free to contact me about this decision via mail.

It's hard to believe that Oracle OpenWorld is almost here.  This will be my first year attending as an Oracle employee -- last year I was still Sun. Preparations are in full swing, and we'll be doing a lot.  The Enterprise Manager team has literally dozens of sessions and demo pods, but I wanted to call your attention to some of the things we'll be doing for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and Oracle Grid Engine.

First for Grid Engine, now formally called Oracle Grid Engine, we have the following activities:

S316977: Scalable Enterprise Data Processing for the Cloud with Oracle Grid Engine
Dan Templeton (Oracle), Tom White (Cloudera)
Thursday 23-Sep-10 12:00-13:00 Moscone South Rm 310

S317230: Who's Using Your Grid? What's on Your Grid? How to Get More
Dan Templeton, Dave Teszler, Zeynep Koch
Tuesday 21-Sep-10 17:00-18:00 Moscone South Rm 305

Also, if you're a developer attending JavaOne you can get hands on with Grid Engine in the following labs

S314413: Extracting Real Value from Your Data with Apache Hadoop
Dan Templeton (Oracle), Aaron Kimball (Cloudera), Michal Bachorik (Oracle)
Wednesday 22-Sep-10 12:30-14:30 Hilton San Francisco Plaza B

S314233: Scale Your Java Service into the Cloud
Dan Templeton, Michal Bachorik
Time and date are still To Be Announced on this session (watch this space)

Now, if you're interested in Ops Center, we have lots going on too.

First, we have two "pods" in the demo grounds area where we'll be showing Ops Center. These are both in the "west" part of Moscone center and you'll be able to talk live with engineers from the team there and get your questions answered in detail.

• Booth W-107  Enterprise Manager Ops Center
• Booth W-094  Hardware, Software...Managed 

Cache index-Aware memory allocation(under submission) by Dave Dice, Yehuda Afek and Adam Morrison. We describe a relatively simple set of changes to malloc allocators that may reduce the conflict miss rate of applications accessing blocks returned by malloc.

I've just reactivated comments. Out of a simple reason: I would have to tone down my comments, when i'm not allowing rebuttals and i don't want that this blog is considered as a Oracle fanboy's soap box. Thanks to Michael for an insightful mail.

• Red Eye - NYTimes.com
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• Deutschlandfunk - Markt und Medien - Die Aufregungsspirale
  "In Wirklichkeit, das zeigen die vergangenen Tage, sind Journalisten jedoch nicht die Vermittler von Fakten und begründeten Meinungen, sondern die Veranstalter eines großen Kasperletheaters."

Create a More Efficient Storage Infrastructure with the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System - This technical white paper explains how upgrading to Oracle Solaris 10 can help IT organizations simplify administration and make better use of storage and data management infrastructure.

Okay ... the usual lawsuits after hiring a top executive of a competitor have begun: HP sues Hurd to stop him from joining Oracle. You will find the court documents at scribd.

The week before last, I was in Ghent to teach my Introduction to iPhone & iPad Development course. This is the same class that I'm teaching next week in Brighton, in the UK (and there are still seats available if you want to grab one.) The 3-Day workshop in Ghent was a resounding success and I [...]

The Community Playdate for Wednesday, September 8, is with The Like Minded Gamers. They’ll be playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 starting at 8 P.M. ET. Check out their gamertags, then stop on by, for some battlefield antics!

A few months ago I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world.  These events provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010.  The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great.  We are working to setup many more web camps around the world in the months ahead.

This Friday (September 10th) we’ll be holding a free web camp in Los Angeles. Phil Haack, Jon Galloway, and James Senior will all be presenting at the event – so it will be really good.

Details on the Los Angeles Web Camp can be found here. We just got additional space so some extra seats are now available. They are filling up fast, though, and will be sold out soon.  Learn more and register here if you want to grab them and attend.

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

It sure seems like I am having a lot of debates with my co-worker lately about the nature of mail filtering.  Why do I say this?  Because I had one today.  This one is over the issue of trust.

I can’t remember whatever it is we were discussing (I think it was something to do with product planning) and somehow we got onto the issue of how Outlook renders messages to the user.  Microsoft Outlook is capable of richly rendering an HTML message – images show up, links embedded, perhaps a cookie is enabled.  Other times, such as when a message is in the Junk Mail folder, the message is “flat”, that is, links are disabled, images are not displayed and certainly no cookies show up.  The question we have is when should Outlook do such a thing as render the message?  Notwithstanding those of you who believe that all HTML should be plain text, this kicked off a debate between myself and my co-worker.  We were trying to figure out the best user experience for the average population of computer users, and how email software should figure out when it should take action by default to enhance the email that users see.

My position is that mail should be rendered (automatically, not with the user clicking “Show Images”) if it meets two conditions:

1. The message is not marked as spam by a content filter.  If a message is spam, it can have malicious links embedded or junk content.  If it comes from a user you trust but is marked as spam, that message should not have the content rendered either.  The message is a false positive (note that this excludes a safe sender because mail from safe senders should not be marked as spam – it should skip spam filtering).
   
2. The sender of the message can be authenticated.  You should only render the messages from people whose identity you can trust.  If you have a particular newsletter that you always want to hear from, then if they authenticate their mail using SPF, SenderID or DKIM and one of those checks passes (and none of them fail), then you know who you are communicating with.  Trust is explicit because the sender of the mail is providing you an audit trail to come back to them if they start sending abusive content.

Combining these two conditions, you will be in a situation where you can trust the user and trust your spam filter.  You are enhancing the end user’s experience and making a best-guess effort to determine that the sender’s content can be trusted.

By contrast, my co-worker has a different point of view.  He claims that mail should be richly rendered if it meets the following one condition:

1. The message is not marked as spam by a content filter.  This is the only condition that is necessary, and it means that trust is implicit.  The reason that this is the only condition that is necessary is that if you require something in addition to this, you are saying that you do not trust your filter to make the correct decision.  Sure, it gets it right most of the time, but not all of the time.  By admitting that you are not getting it right all of the time, this is bad for public relations and that your filter is not up-to-snuff. 

I disagreed with this point of view; in fact, I was very surprised that he held it.  If my position is correct, then what are the trade-offs?  The benefit is that if you do get a false negative, then you will not richly render the message by default.  So, if it is phishing, it won’t look like it came from Bank of America or Facebook.  The links will be disabled by default.  The drawback is the following: most mail that we deliver is not marked as spam.  It is also a reality that a large proportion of senders still do not use any authentication technique at all, so we will not be able to richly render the message in advance (SPF/SenderID none, and no DKIM validation).  The user sees a flat message for a large number of messages in their inboxes.

If my co-worker is correct, then what is the trade-off?  The benefit is that more messages are shown to the end-user with messages rendered richly.  It looks better and is more visually aesthetic.  But the drawback is that of abuse.  The fact is that I live in the real world when it comes to email, not some idealized world where false negatives never occur.  That world just doesn’t exist.  And in email, anyone can send mail as anyone.  Some of these will trickle into the end user’s inbox.  When it does, if we render the image richly then we are rendering spam automatically.  Since there’s no way to verify who the message came from the end user ends up tricked.  By automatically rendering all messages that you don’t mark as spam, you are widening your attack surface.

In my view, trust should be explicit, not implicit.  If you think about real life, you don’t trust everyone you meet by default.  You have a close inner circle of friends and family whom you trust with various things (keys to the house, financial details) but you certainly do not extend this trust to strangers.  You extend trust to people when you have already established a pre-existing relationship, and you validate their identity usually visual indicators (you can see them) or audio indicators (you hear their voice), and so forth.  This is similar to email; in lieu of a pre-existing relationship a spam filter scans the content and determines that it is legitimate.  But at the same time in real life, a stranger can offer you a lollipop.  As we all know from childhood, you shouldn’t take stuff from strangers, in this case a lollipop.  And with email, a filtering scan might say that the content is legitimate, but your software shouldn’t promote the message (richly render it) unless it can also establish that it can be traced to an identity.  Without that identity, trust must not be extended.  Who knows what’s in that lollipop?

That’s how I see it (remember, we are talking about the default action of the mail client, not someone manually clicking to always trust messages from so-and-so).  Without reputation, and putting that reputation on the line, anyone can do anything.

As some of my fellow Flashers have pointed out today, there seems to (finally) be some movement on a much requested feature (with over 550 votes) for Flash: AEC Support (Advanced Echo Cancellation). It is the second most voted feature request - number one has more votes since seemingly because it has been overrun by Apple fanboys who complain about Flash's poor performance on OSX. It hasn't occurred to them that they should also talk to Apple abo.... err, ok sorry, I forgot that Apple does not enter into a dialogue with its use, let alone run a public bug base like Adobe does.

Ok, rant over, back on topic... Efficient echo cancellation is very important for online communication via FMS, and the lack of it often results in a terrible experience for the participants. Skype has had this feature for a while and that's part of the reason while the in-call performance is so much better in Skype than it is in most Flash based chat tools.

But finally, Thibault Imbert has confirmed: "Just wanted to give you a little update. It is in very good shape, we are actively working on this, and this will be fixed soon ;)"

You can of course still add your vote to the feature request.

I already showed you two ways of editing Box2D environments with Bison Kick and simply using the Flash IDE. Today I’ll show you the most advanced editor at the moment: World Construction Kit made with Box2D C++ 2D physics engine compiled with Adobe Alchemy. The demos on the official site are really awesome and the [...]

Since PixelBender is becomming a more popular technolog [...]

In case you haven’t seen this effort by Josh Duck to create a table of the 104 element in the HTML5 working draft at the moment, organized as like the periodic table, go check it out. Very easy on the eyes. Hey, it reminds me of the finest XHTML Character Entity Reference chart on the [...]

carouFredSel is a jQuery plugin that turns any kind of HTML element into an infinite, circular carousel. It supports pagination and can scroll one or multiple items simultaneously, horizontal or vertical, automatically, by pressing buttons or keys on the keyboard. carouFredSel Feetures Scrolls automatically and/or by user interaction Built in keyboard-navigation and pagination Dynamically add and remove items to/from the carousel Compatible with most popular (jQuery) lightbox-plugins Intelligent custom events and loads of options Website: http://caroufredsel.frebsite.nl/

Join TODAY the free SilverlightShow webinar 'Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust, delivered by Chris Anderson (read SilverlightShow interview with Chris).

The webinar will start at 8 am PDT (check your local time) and will include a 45-min presentation, and a 20 minute Q&A session. Chris Andrson will try to reply to as many questions as possible within the time allocated. All unanswered questions will be replied to after the webinar, via email.

A recording of the full webinar will be emailed to everyone who registered for this webinar, and will also be published on SilverlightShow webinars page.

Fill out our post-webinar evaluation survey! The attendee who provided the most constructive feedback on this webinar will get a free ebook copy of Chris Anderson's latest book Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4.

 

 

 

>The book Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration is now available with 20% discount for SilverlightShow community. Use code SilvShow20Sept at checkout on Packt Publishing website.

The code is valid through September only. Packt Publishing has free shipping to US, UK, Europe and selected Asian countries (see full shipping policy).

Released in July 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration focuses on the integration of Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 and provides step-by-step guidelines for implementing Silverlight RIAs in SharePoint. It is filled with real-world examples that depict the various techniques for interacting with data and services provided by this powerful business collaboration platform, for the enterprise and the Internet.

Expect soon a sample chapter from the book published on SilverlightShow.

 

 

I always love positive feedback. Last week I discovered a nice blog post Arpit Agarwal's Blog: NetBeans JavaFX Composer - A threat to Adobe FlexBuilder! -mr

Back in May and June I jointly run a highly successful (IMVHO) training programme on the Windows Azure Platform over a six week period for UK developers (Check out some stats/background).

We have been discussing how we can take that format forward and I am pleased to say we have our first “spin off”. Namely the  “Windows Azure Platform – Accelerated Virtual Training Workshop” which will take place in October. Yippeee.

The training will be delivered over a two week period and combines instructor led sessions (delivered virtually over Live Meeting) with independent distance learning, email support and access to hands-on practical exercises. The training provides delegates with an opportunity to gain insight into the nature and benefits of the Windows Azure Platform

Register NOW

AGENDA

NB: This is on UK time!

Day 1 - Live Meeting 3 hours Monday 11th October

9.30 am until 12.30 pm

• Overview of the “Accelerated Training Workshop” Virtual learning programme
• Windows Azure Platform overview
• Introduce the "Azure Application Resource Toolkit" and the Training Resources Application
• Introduction to Windows Azure
• Windows Azure demo
• Set participating students their Distance Learning Homework from the "Azure Application Resource Toolkit"

Day 2 to Day 4 - Self Learning

• Daily emails of Azure hints and tips to assist learners with Distance Learning Homework
• As a guide, Distance Learning Homework is expected to take students 1 hour per day to complete

Day 5 - Live Meeting 3 hours Friday 15th October

9.30 am until 12.30 pm

• Review of work done to date in the workshop
• Open Questions and Answers
• Introduction to SQL Azure
• SQL Azure demo
• Review of next steps
• Homework: Follow-up exercise to compley before Day 10

Day 6 to Day 9

• Daily emails of Azure hints and tips to assist learners with Distance Learning Homework
• As a guide, Distance Learning Homework is expected to take students 1 hour per day to complete

Day 10 - Live Meeting 2 hours Monday 25th October

9.30 am until 11.30 am

• Review of work done to date in the workshop
• Review of sample applications built by students
• Open Questions and Answers
• Programme Close

AUDIENCE

This course is aimed at software developers with at least 6 months practical experience using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010.

Related Links

• UK based? Interested in the Windows Azure Platform? Join http://ukazure.ning.com
• Get started with the Windows Azure Platform http://bit.ly/startazure

I just posted details of 2 weeks of FREE training in October delivered via Live Meeting but we also recognise that some folks prefer classroom based training. Hence we have scheduled four two day workshops from September through to April.

This two-day intensive instructor-led workshop provides delegates with an early opportunity to gain insight into the nature and benefits of the Windows Azure Platform. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, the workshop will focus on three key services – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric.

Details and registration links at:

London 30th September 2010

London 15th November 2010

London 8th February 2011

London 5th April 2011

Agenda

• Module 1: Windows Azure Platform overview
• Module 2: Introduction to Windows Azure
• Module 3: Introduction to SQL Azure
• Module 4: Introduction to AppFabric

Related Links

• UK based? Interested in the Windows Azure Platform? Join http://ukazure.ning.com
• Get started with the Windows Azure Platform http://bit.ly/startazure

Meet Moritz Praetorius (Damojo) from ActiveDen! Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living? My name is Moritz Praetorius and I’m a 28 year old web designer living in the center of Cologne/Germany together with my girlfriend. For the last three years I’ve been working for [...]

Image via Wikipedia Most Web designers are perplexed when a client asks them to build a flash Web site and also optimise it for search engines. This is because more often than not, you have to choose between search engine optimisation and a flashy design. For the best flexibility and results, when it comes to [...]

This week is JavaZone, the conference organized in Oslo by JavaBin.  Alexis presented on GlassFish there in 2007 (video), but this year it seems its going to be the best so far, both the technical program, and the fun activities.

Starting with the fun part, check out these two, very professional looking, videos:

Video #1: is the Java 4 Ever trailer. The cast for the video includes Williams Windows, Scala Johansson, Eddie Larrison and LennyLinux.  The video reminds me of the early JavaOne videos, specially that confessional about the impure thoughts - anybody has a link to a copy online?

Video #2 is a LadyJava Music Video. The title character is performed by Jenny Skavlan (no.Wikipedia and en). It looks like most of the rest of the cast were volunteers; see invitation to recording. The music video is already available at YouTube - where it has already collected more than 260K views! This one does not remind me of any JavaOne videos :-)  Check it out and you will see..

On the technical side, the Program Catalog includes sessions representing many of our friends & relatives, including:

• OpenMQ, The JMS reference Implementation (Trond Strømme),
• JRuby: Now With More J! (Nick Sieger)
• RESTful Web Services med Jersey (Yngvar Sørensen),
• Using the latest Java Persistence API 2.0 features (Alexis),
• Java 7 NIO.2: The I/O API for Future (Masoud Kalali),
• Building Websocket Based Applications on GlassFish/Grizzly (Justin Lee),
• The Java EE Spike Kata (Anders Karlsen, Johannes Brodwall)
• Getting more out of your Hudson (Kohsuke Kawaguchi),
• Top 5 plugins for Hudson and Chuck Norris (Håkon Snøtun)
• Securing Web Services with OpenSSO (Mario Aparicio)

As usual with these conferences, there are other events aligning with it, including a Hudson Meetup and a ForgeRock party where Alexis will present about GlassFish.

Post conferences reports, and get ready for JavaOne - it is just around the corner.

Bueno, tras un descanso y una reentrada accidentada por la ruptura del portátil y su recuperación, retomo este espacio para convocar a un evento que Oracle está celebrando en las principales capitales europeas y que glosará la visión y soluciones para el nuevo modelo de centro de proceso de datos que Oracle propone. 

Este verano hubo un primer avance de la estrategia de hardware en una conferencia que recogí en el blog anterior y que mostraba cómo la adquisición de Sun no fue un tema puntual sino la base del crecimiento de Oracle en los próximos años con una estrategia de soluciones completas que saquen el máximo provecho a todas las tecnologías, aunque manteniendo una estructuración en capas basadas en estándares abiertos que permitan la libertad de elección. 

No obstante lo que se contó allí no era nada más que un anticipo de lo que se anunciará en la gran cita anual conjunta de Oracle Open World y JavaOne, en San Francisco del 19 al 23 de septiembre. Por ello, el evento al que os invito a asistir el 30 de septiembre llega en un momento ideal para comprender la oferta de Oracle para el centro de proceso de datos del futuro: más eficiente. más potente y preparado para el cloud computing. 

La agenda tiene una primera parte ejecutiva para el que sólo está interasado en las estrategias y ofertas generales y los beneficios que puede aportar y luego dos líneas de sesiones pararelas, una orientada a la optimización de los recursos y la eficiencia del Centro de Datos y otra a la mejora del rendimiento de las aplicaciones y la escalabilidad. Como veréis no vamos a hablar sólo de hardware sino de la oferta completa de Oracle para el CPD.

Allí quedamos citados. Todos los detalles y el registro a continuación,

	Resumen Agenda Patrocinadores Más información Asista a este evento de Oracle y le mostraremos cómo diseñar un centro de datos de próxima generación: más eficiente, más potente y preparado para el cloud computing. Inscríbase ahora Participe en esta jornada y descubra cómo está contribuyendo la integración del software y del hardware de Oracle a transformar los centros de datos y a incrementar la eficacia empresarial. Aprenda de la mano de los mejores ingenieros, expertos y directivos cómo reducir los costes, simplificar la gestión, aumentar el rendimiento y prepararse para la llegada del cloud computing. Todo ello, con un objetivo: satisfacer una demanda cada vez mayor con menos recursos. Oracle le ofrece una integración inigualable en todas las capas tecnológicas del centro de datos (desde las aplicaciones a los discos) aumentando su eficiencia, simplicidad, rendimiento y escalabilidad. Gracias a estas innovadoras características, podrá: incrementar el aprovechamiento de los sistemas y el rendimiento de las aplicaciones; agilizar la implantación de servicios; reducir el gasto energético y en refrigeración, así como el espacio utilizado y los costes de personal; simplificar la gestión; disfrutar de un centro de datos más flexible; reasignar recursos informáticos con rapidez para adaptarse a las nuevas exigencias del negocio; y convertir la infraestructura informática en un proveedor de servicios de private cloud («nube privada»). Inscríbase en línea hoy mismo para participar en este encuentro exclusivo y descubra lo que puede conseguir su empresa con un centro de datos optimizado y totalmente integrado. Para cualquier aclaración, por favor, envíe un correo a maria.simon@ketchumpleon.com. 30 de Septiembre Mirasierra Suites Hotel C/Alfredo Marquerie 43 28034 Madrid
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My favorite fast food is La Bamba (Carnitas - Yelp, Burritophile), but I could not resist the reference to In-N-Out.

This list is not new, but I wanted one place to refer people to, these resources are a great place to start

1. Start here, understand the Windows Phone 7 Experience Windows Phone Design Day Recordings
2. Check out the labs here Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
3. Then head over to Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training
4. Watch this space for some depth training workshops that we are looking to roll out in Australia.

Indyfromoz keeps an amazing up to date list of Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources at http://indyfromoz.wordpress.com/windows-phone-7-resources/ thanks Mate!!

If you live and develop in Australia, then I have a limited pool of Windows Phone 7 Engineering prototype devices for loan.

Once you get your application to test phase then click this link and email me and I’ll add you to the nomination list for a loan device, 1 to 2 weeks max… 

Ideally email me a video cast of your apps progress, I will not share or otherwise disclose your Intellectual Property.

Cheers Dave

Round a bout a month ago, Hurd left HP. Yesterday Oracle announced that Hurd is now a co-president at Sun: "Oracle hires former HP's Hurd, Phillips leaves"

Simplicity is best facilitated by accountability. Improved simplicity is a byproduct of improved accountability. Don't allow a disconnect. via blogs.hbr.org a great article on innovation and the accountability for simplicity in product development... if you have 5min, follow on and read! Select Post from samiq's posterous

Lee posted about the Galaxy Tab, which is one of many tablet form factors slated to support Flash Player 10.1 as they roll out into next year. Here’s a promo video. I love how they have learned that to beat Apple you need the “hip” and trendy factor. Still, until you actually start using a [...]

Via mobilelivingroom, The Nokia E52 upgrades the firmware to v51.018. Changelogs - browser upgrade to 7.2.6 - QuickOffice upgrade to 6.2.439 - Office 2007 compatibility improved - OVI Music client update - Lotus Notes Traveller 8.5.1 update - myNokia update - OVI Store 1.6 update - OVI Sync 2.0 update - OVI Files widget 1.2.3.0 update - Nokia Chat 2.0 added - email, calendar, contacts improved - [...]

In this tutorial we show how to use two important methods of the BitmapData class, perlinNoise and ColorMatrixFilter. By combining the two, we obtain a realistic dynamic cloud effect. The color schemes of the sky and the clouds can easily be changed.

お待たせいたしました、MSDN マガジン 8 月号の日本語版、本日公開しました。
8 月号も Windows Phone 7 から WPF まで幅広くカバーしていますが、個人的におすすめはやはりクラウド系、 Windows Azure: アプリケーションをクラウドに移行するためのヒント でしょうか。アプリケーションのセキュリティや互換性など、移行の際に気になるテクニックをご紹介しています。

クラウドへの移行といえば、先日の Tech・Ed 2010 で、私も Windows Azure 関連のセッションを三つほど見てきましたが、この中で ”既存業務システムの Windows Azure への移行” というセッションが興味深かったです。
このセッションの中ではプログラミングなど実際のテクニックについては一切触れられていないのですが、現場で導入を考えるにあたり必要な “どんなシステムがクラウドへの移行に向いているのか” “向いていないのはどんなタイプのアプリケーションなのか” “SQL Azure と Azure データストレージの違い” “オンプレミスとクラウドの連携” といったことをわかりやすく説明していて、Windows Azure 初心者の私でも理解できました。
この中で、スピーカーが 「今後の Windows Azure は適用範囲が広がっていくので、今からとにかく使ってみて、クラウド、PaaS ならではの考え方に慣れてください」　と言っていたのが印象に残りました。このセッションの模様は後日公開されるかと思いますので (注: 現時点の予定です) 、お楽しみに！

Windows Azure の勉強をしてみたいという気になった方、まずはこちらから。
・コードで学ぶ Windows Azure アプリケーション開発入門
・Windows Azure Platform 各種ホワイトペーパー

Windows Azure の導入プランは下記をご確認ください。
・Windows Azure を 25 時間分無償で利用できる、Windows Azure Platform 導入特別プランの購入
・その他の Windows Azure 導入プラン

おっと、忘れるところでした。最後に、7月にもっとも読まれた MSDN マガジンの記事 Top 5!

1. Model-View-ViewModel デザイン パターンによる WPF アプリケーション
2 .NET Framework で関数型プログラミング手法を使用する
3. Visual Studio 2010 での C++ と MFC の新機能の詳細
4. WPF でのデータ バインド
5. ネイティブ C++ 用の小さくて高速な XML パーサー

MVVM は強いですね～、

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