Events http://rickgaribay.net/category/15.aspx Events en-US Rick G. Garibay rickgaribay@hotmail.com Subtext Version 1.9.5.176 Announcing the 2nd Annual Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (GWAB) Phoenix! http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2014/01/13/announcing-the-2nd-annual-global-windows-azure-bootcamp-phoenix.aspx <p><a href="http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Global Windows Azure Bootcamp" align="left" src="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bootcamp-300x202.png" /></a></p> <p>I am thrilled to announce the 2<sup>nd</sup> Annual <a href="http://global.windowsazurebootcamp.com/">GWAB</a> which has been confirmed for Saturday, March 29<sup>th</sup>, 2014! </p> <p>As of today, we have <strong>119</strong> locations in <strong>48</strong> countries and <strong>111</strong> cities!</p> <p>For those of you who <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2013/03/20/global-windows-azure-bootcampndash-phoenix-427.aspx" target="_blank">attended last year</a>, you know what a blast we had writing and deploying code to Azure as part of hands on labs and our massive scale-out demo, the "<a href="http://renderlab.azurewebsites.net/" target="_blank">Global Render Lab</a>”. This exercise showed the power of distributed computing and we'll be doing something similar this year.  </p> <p>This year, we are taking the immense compute power of Windows Azure and putting it to work in the fight against diabetes. We’re partnering with Dr. Richard D. Smith in the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National lab (PNNL) in collaboration with Minnie M. Sarwal and Tara K. Sigdel at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute with the goal of discovering how our body’s serum protein glycosylation works. We want to know how high blood sugar levels present in diabetes patients affect the complex sugar production systems required for our health and ability to fight disease. We want to prove the theory that when small changes in this process start occurring, the disease can progress and lead to Type 2 diabetes. The results from this work will not only help understand the human diabetic state at the molecular level but also lead the way for early detection of diabetes. More details here: <a href="http://global.windowsazurebootcamp.com/charity">http://global.windowsazurebootcamp.com/charity</a> </p> <p>Our hope is that as our attendees are using this to learn about how to deploy to Windows Azure and how distributed computing works, we can help solve some of the world's problems at the same time.</p> <p><a href="http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb" target="_blank"></a></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><strong>Agenda and Speakers</strong></font></p> <p>Joe and I have been hard at work on the agenda and I’m pleased to share the final agenda below:</p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="748"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100"> <p align="center"><strong>Start</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="100"> <p align="center"><strong>End</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="324"> <p align="center"><strong>Topic</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="222"> <p align="center"><strong>Speaker</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">9:00</td> <td valign="top" width="100">9:15</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Welcome, Introduction</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Rick G. Garibay and Joe Guadagno</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">9:15</td> <td valign="top" width="100">10:15</td> <td valign="top" width="324">A Lap Around Windows Azure</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Rick G. Garibay</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">10:15</td> <td valign="top" width="100">11:30</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Big Charity Render Lab!</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Proctored by speakers, GWAB leadership</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">11:30</td> <td valign="top" width="100">11:45</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Break. Grab Lunch, prepare for next session!</td> <td valign="top" width="222"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">11:45</td> <td valign="top" width="100">12:45</td> <td valign="top" width="324">A Lap Around Cloud Services</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Joe Guadagno</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">12:45</td> <td valign="top" width="100">1:45</td> <td valign="top" width="324">A Lap Around Windows Azure Websites</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Rick G. Garibay</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">1:45</td> <td valign="top" width="100">2:45</td> <td valign="top" width="324">A Lap Around Windows Azure Mobile Services</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Brendon Birdoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">2:45</td> <td valign="top" width="100">3:45</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Hands on Labs</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Proctored by speakers, GWAB leadership</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">3:45</td> <td valign="top" width="100">4:00</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Break</td> <td valign="top" width="222"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">4:00</td> <td valign="top" width="100">5:00</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Windows Azure ALM</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Chris Myers</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100">5:00</td> <td valign="top" width="100">6:00</td> <td valign="top" width="324">Windows Azure Data &amp; HDInsight</td> <td valign="top" width="222">Michael Collins</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p> </p> <p>The class includes presenters and trainers (Microsoft MVPs, industry experts) with deep, real world experience with Windows Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. In fact, I am pleased to announce that the following Microsoft MVPs and community rock stars have already signed on for this year’s event:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/jguadagno" target="_blank">Joe Guadagno</a> – Microsoft MVP, President SEVDNUG, GWAB Co-Organizer, Speaker </li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj" target="_blank">Chris Myers</a>- President Phoenix Connected Systems User Group, GWAB Speaker <a href="http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="GWAB2014" border="0" alt="GWAB2014" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/Announcingthe2ndAnnualGlobalWindowsAzure_F0E4/GWAB2014.png" width="320" height="322" /></a></li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/brendonbirdoes" target="_blank">Brendon Birdoes</a> - National Solutions Director, Neudesic, GWAB Speaker </li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/@mfcollins3" target="_blank">Michael Collins</a> – Architect, <a href="http://products.neudesic.com/features" target="_blank">Neuron ESB</a>, GWAB Speaker </li> </ul> <p><strong><font size="3">Awesome. How much does it cost?</font></strong> <br />This event is FREE to the attendees. Gratis! Gratuite! Libero!  However, seating is limited so be sure to register and secure your seat today: <a title="http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb" href="http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb">http://bit.ly/1gCdCZb</a>  </p> <p><font size="3"><strong>What do I need to bring?</strong></font> <br />You will need to bring your own computer which can run Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 (i.e. Windows, OSX, Ubuntu with virtualization, etc.) and have it preloaded with the following:</p> <ul> <li>Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 </li> <li>The Windows Azure SDK from <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/</a> </li> </ul> <p>Optionally (or if you will not be doing just .NET labs), the following can also be installed:</p> <ul> <li>Node.js SDK - <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/</a> </li> <li>JAVA SDK - <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/java/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/java/</a> </li> <li>Doing mobile? Android? iOS? Windows Phone or Windows 8? - <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/</a> </li> <li>PHP - <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/php/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/php/</a> </li> </ul> <p>More info here: <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation</a></p> <p><font color="#ff0000">Please do the installation upfront as there will be very little time to troubleshoot installations during the day. </font></p> <p>You will also need to be signed up for a Windows Azure account. There are <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/" target="_blank">many options</a> including a 100% absolutely <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/" target="_blank">free 30 day trial</a>. Why not sign up now? <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/</a></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>Is this for beginners?</strong></font> <br />Yes and no. We will focus on a series of lectures and hands on labs aimed at level 200, but ad-hoc white boarding, deep scenario discussions and Q&amp;A are all part of the fun. Think you already know it all? Great, we still need volunteers, speakers and lab buddies. Drop me a note on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/rickggaribay" target="_blank">@rickggaribay</a></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>And now, for a little fun…</strong></font></p> <iframe height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sEion7CZO3s" frameborder="0" width="560" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <p>Big thanks to fellow MVPs Maarten Balliauw, Alan Smith, Michael Wood and Magnus Martensson for running this event as our global leaders. Thanks also to <a href="http://twitter.com/@scottcate" target="_blank">Scott Cate</a> at <a href="https://www.eventday.com/" target="_blank">Event Day</a> for providing free registration hosting. We couldn’t do this without them!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/363.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2014/01/13/announcing-the-2nd-annual-global-windows-azure-bootcamp-phoenix.aspx Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:24:44 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2014/01/13/announcing-the-2nd-annual-global-windows-azure-bootcamp-phoenix.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/363.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/363.aspx Global Windows Azure BootCamp&ndash; Phoenix 4/27 http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2013/03/20/global-windows-azure-bootcampndash-phoenix-427.aspx <p>The rumors are true. The Global Windows Azure Bootcamp is coming to Phoenix on <strong>April 27th, 2013. </strong>Registration is now open: <a title="https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/" href="https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/">https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/</a> <a href="https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/" target="_blank"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="clip_image001[9]" border="0" alt="clip_image001[9]" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Global-Windows-Azure-Boot-Camp-Phoenix-4_F64D/clip_image001%5B9%5D_1.jpg" width="238" height="240" /></a></p> <p>This is a <a href="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=151" target="_blank">truly global event</a> in which the Phoenix community will come together to share and learn what you can do on Windows Azure.</p> <p>This <strong>one day deep dive class</strong> will get you up to speed on developing for and deploying to Windows Azure. The class will be led by myself and fellow MVPs including the one and only <a href="http://twitter.com/jguadagno" target="_blank">Joe Guadagno</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/danwahlin" target="_blank">Dan Wahlin</a> and you’re friendly neighborhood Microsoft Regional Director <a href="http://twitter.com/scottcate" target="_blank">Scott Cate</a>. You’re guaranteed to learn a ton and in addition to the talks, you’ll work on some great hands on labs so you can apply what you learn on the same day and take the labs with you! Best of all, if you get stuck, we’ll be there to make you do push ups, I mean get unblocked <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" alt="Winking smile" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Global-Windows-Azure-Boot-Camp-Phoenix-4_F64D/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile_2.png" /></p> <p><strong>AGENDA</strong></p> <p>We will start at 9:00 with welcome and introductions and get right into an end-to-end overview of Windows Azure. From there, we’ll participate in a massive, coordinated, global deployment to Windows Azure, teaming with over 60 other worldwide locations to see the workload in action (details are super secret, so you have to show up to get your security clearance- this a a boot camp after all)!</p> <p>After we’ve done our best to take down a datacenter, we’ll take a break and take a lap around storage and database options on Windows Azure while we enjoy a catered lunch kindly sponsored by Microsoft. We’ll also have fresh primo coffee, sodas, waters and snacks to help you power through the labs which will give you real-world exposure to what its like to actually apply what you’ve learned and take the <strong>working</strong> applications home with you.</p> <p>From there we’ll take another break and wrap up the day with a look at how Windows Azure Service Bus changes how you think about messaging and integration when working at cloud scale. We’ll have a Service Bus lab and from there likely plan some nefarious after event activities at one of downtown Chandler’s fine watering holes.</p> <p>Here are the details:</p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="668"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p align="center"><b>Activity</b></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p align="center"><b>Time</b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Welcome and Introductions (15 mins)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>9:00 – 9:15</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Windows Azure Overview (75 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>9:15 – 10:30</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Deploy to the cloud! (45 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>10:30 – 11:15</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Break (15 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>11:15 – 11:30</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Windows Azure Storage and Database (90 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>11:30 – 1:00 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Hands On labs (2 hours)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>1:00 – 2:00 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Break (15 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>2:00 - 2:15</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Windows Azure Service Bus - (90 minutes)</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>2:15 – 3:45 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="480"> <p>Wrap Up</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="186"> <p>3:45 – 5:00</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <h4><font size="2">HOW MUCH DOES BOOTCAMP COST?</font></h4> <p>This event is FREE to the attendees. Gratis! Gratuite! Libero! We’ll certainly take any good karma you want to send our way, but your attendance and full engagement is all we ask. Be sure to check out the <a href="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=171" target="_blank">prerequisites</a> to ensure you are ready to rock.</p> <p><strong>DO I NEED TO BRING ANYTHING?</strong></p> <p>This is a BYOL event. To get the most of the event, you will want to come to boot camp with your own laptop pre-loaded with Visual Studio, the Azure SDK and all <a href="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=171" target="_blank">prerequisites</a>. Please see <a title="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=171" href="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=171">http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=171</a> to download and install everything you’ll need to make this a great event.</p> <p><strong>BUT, I’M COMPELTELY NEW TO THIS AZURE CLOUD THING</strong></p> <p>This event is for you! We’ll have a mix of content both for experienced developers and those brand spanking new to Windows Azure. Our trainers will be here to answer all of your questions and help you with the labs, so remember, there are no stupid questions.</p> <p><strong>BUT, I ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF<a href="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 5px; display: inline; float: right" alt="bootcamp" align="right" src="http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bootcamp_thumb.png" /></a></strong></p> <p>Awesome! We’d love to have you as you’ll probably teach us a thing or two and we guarantee you’ll walk away learning a few things too!</p> <p><strong>LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION</strong></p> <p>Boot camp will be held at Gangplank in Chandler, located at 260 South Arizona Avenue | CHANDLER, AZ 85225</p> <p><strong>WHAT’S NEXT?</strong></p> <p>Seating is limited for this event so please register now at <a title="https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/" href="https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/">https://phxglobalazurebootcamp.eventday.com/</a> to guarantee your seat and help us plan for coffee, drinks, snacks and lunch.</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/356.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2013/03/20/global-windows-azure-bootcampndash-phoenix-427.aspx Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:06:51 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2013/03/20/global-windows-azure-bootcampndash-phoenix-427.aspx#feedback 1 http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/356.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/356.aspx Building Speedy Azure Applications with HTML5 and Web Sockets Today http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/03/29/building-speedy-azure-applications-with-html5-and-web-sockets-today.aspx <p>I had the pleasure of presenting at Spring DevConnections today in Las Vegas and as promised, below are the samples for each of my demos.</p> <p>To recap. WebSocket brings full-duplex, bi-directional TCP sockets to web, desktop and mobile applications, introducing an alternative to XHR and long-polling, particularly when latency is a primary focus. What makes WebSocket so significant to developers in addition to providing a direct, socket-based connection is that it is standardized by both the IETF Hybi working group and W3C which has brought wide industry support across both browser vendors implementing the client support and platform vendors providing support for building WebSocket servers. </p> <p><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 8px 2px 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_thumb.png" width="244" height="133" /></a>Microsoft has been an early champion of the WebSocket protocol, sharing some early investments via HTML5 <a href="http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/" target="_blank">Interoperability Labs</a> website and maintaining that investment with support for the WebSocket protocol announced at //Build 11 which introduced WebSocket support to Windows 8, Windows Server 8. .NET 4.5 and IE 10 Developer Preview based on the hybi-10 specification.</p> <p><a href="https://www.windowsazure.com/nodejs" target="_blank"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_3.png" width="244" height="110" /></a>With the release of .NET 4.5 Beta 1, all of the above have been updated to RFC 6455, which is the latest specification and expected to be final. </p> <p>Along with broad native support for WebSockets in modern browsers like Chrome, IE 10, Safari and FireFox, the standardization dust has settled making this the right time to jump in.</p> <p>In my talk, we took a lap around the WebSocket support in .NET 4.5, highlighting the APIs that Microsoft has made available in the Microsoft.WebSocket namespace that ships <a href="http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WebSockets" target="_blank">as a package on NuGet</a>. While you can go as deep as you want in the new System.Net.WebSockets namespace that forms the core of Microsoft’s investment in the protocol, the Microsoft.WebSocket package provides higher level abstractions for developing WebSocket solutions today with WCF using WebSocketService and ASP.NET using WebSocketHandler.</p> <p>Since .NET 4.5 and Window 8/Server 8 have not yet been released, it is currently not possible to deploy your .NET 4.5 applications to Windows Azure. That said, while Windows Azure will certainly be updated to support these key technologies following RTM, Azure supports a variety of non-Microsoft programming languages and platforms including Node.js. </p> <p>Demonstrating the latest <a href="https://www.windowsazure.com/nodejs" target="_blank">Azure SDK for Node.js</a>, we got a fully RFC 6455 complain WebSocket service up and running on Windows Azure in a worker role running Node.js and using the WebSocket.IO module to integrate with Twitter’s Streaming API which provides a one-way firehose for tapping into Twitter’s event stream which proved to be a great example of using these capabilities together while having a little fun with HTML 5 JQuery and CSS 3.</p> <div align="center"> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="1366"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81"> <p align="center"><strong>Demo</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="center"><strong>Summary</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"> <p align="center"><strong>Artifacts</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="249"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81">Demo 1</td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="left">Live chat sample of Silverlight-based client and WCF Service running on Windows Azure. <br /> <br />Please note that this implementation is deprecated and will not be carried forward. <br /> <br />Instead, please use .NET 4.5 WebSocket support in WCF and ASP.NET. <br /></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><a title="http://html5labs.cloudapp.net/WebSockets/ChatDemo/wsdemo.html" href="http://html5labs.cloudapp.net/WebSockets/ChatDemo/wsdemo.html">http://html5labs.cloudapp.net/WebSockets/ChatDemo/wsdemo.html</a></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="249"> <p align="left"><a href="http://html5labs.cloudapp.net/WebSockets/ChatDemo/wsdemo.html"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_4.png" width="244" height="203" /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81"> <p align="left">Demo 2</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="left">Simple “Hello World” example of ASP.NET ASHX handler using WebSocketHandler and HTML 5 client demonstrating a trivial “echo” service that displays the date/time each second. <br /> <br />Also included in the Demo 2 folder is a WCF version of the same implementation (which I did not demo during my talk). <br /></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a title="http://sdrv.ms/HofK53" href="http://sdrv.ms/HofK53">http://sdrv.ms/HofK53</a> </p> <p align="center"> <br />Projects: <br />SimpleEventingSample <br />SimpleEventingService <br /> <br />Requires Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 &amp; Windows 8/Windows 8 Server</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="249"> <p align="left"><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_5.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_thumb_3.png" width="244" height="190" /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81"> <p align="left">Demo 3</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="left">Example of using the Twitter Search API as an event stream with WCF using  WebSocketService, Linq to Twitter and HTML 5 with some nice JQuery and CSS animation. <br /></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"> <p align="center"><a title="http://sdrv.ms/HofK53" href="http://sdrv.ms/HofK53">http://sdrv.ms/HofK53</a> <br /> <br />Projects: <br />StatusStreamClient <br />StatusStreamService <br />StatusStreamServiceTests <br /> <br /></p> <p align="center">Requires Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 &amp; Windows 8/Windows 8 Server</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="249"> <p align="left"><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_6.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_thumb_4.png" width="244" height="113" /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81"> <p align="left">Demo 4</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="left">Another event streaming example, this time using the Twitter Streaming API, Node.js and WebSocket.IO in Windows Azure and HTML 5 animations with CSS 3 box shadow and rotate. <br /> <br />As opposed to the Twitter Search API used in Demo 3, you can see that events are immediately captured and the Streaming API is much more reliable than the Search API. <br /></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a title="http://sdrv.ms/H1DVru" href="http://sdrv.ms/H1DVru">http://sdrv.ms/H1DVru</a></p> <p align="center"> <br />Use any text editor or your favorite JavaScript IDE. <br /></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="249"> <p align="left"><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_7.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_thumb_5.png" width="244" height="183" /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="81"> <p align="left">Deck</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="562"> <p align="left"></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="472"><a title="http://sdrv.ms/Hf5oZB" href="http://sdrv.ms/Hf5oZB"> <br /> <br /> <br />http://sdrv.ms/Hf5oZB</a></td> <td valign="top" width="249"><iframe style="padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: #fcfcfc; padding-left: 0px; width: 204px; padding-right: 0px; height: 118px; padding-top: 0px" title="Preview" height="120" marginheight="0" src="https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=DF930EE6F91132FD&amp;resid=DF930EE6F91132FD%21751&amp;authkey=ALQ9gS4_Yvb89c0" frameborder="0" width="98" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <p>Please feel free to play with any of the samples, extend them and make them your own.</p> <p>Please remember that demos 2 and 3 require .NET 4.5 Consumer Preview and either Windows 8 or <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_8.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/customcontent/c1f79a9417a5_B3EF/image_thumb_6.png" width="644" height="356" /></a>Windows 8 server.</p> <p>Since the Microsoft.WebSockets NuGet package is the easiest way to get started with WebSocketHandler and WebSocketService, I’d recommend starting with Demo 2 and Demo 3. </p> <p>For demo 4, you will need an Azure account which you can sign up for free (really, free) at <a href="http://azure.com">http://azure.com</a> </p> <p>As we discussed during my talk, even though .NET 4.5 and Windows 8 are not yet RTM:</p> <p>•Now is the time to dive into WebSockets in .NET 4.5!</p> <p>•Consider how WebSockets can improve existing near real-time messaging scenarios.</p> <p>•Start building WebSocket apps on Windows 8 and Windows Server 8 today.</p> <p>•.NET 4.5 support in Windows Azure is coming soon. In the meantime, consider alternate frameworks like Node.js which is supported today!</p> <p>Last but not least, here are the resources I provided on my last slide for easy access:</p> <p>•Microsoft.Web.WebSockets NuGet Package: <a href="http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WebSockets">http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WebSockets</a></p> <p>•Paul Batum’s blog: <a href="http://www.paulbatum.com/2011/09/getting-started-with-websockets-in.html">http://www.paulbatum.com/2011/09/getting-started-with-websockets-in.html</a></p> <p>•Damir Dobric’s blog on WCF WebSockets: <a href="http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2011/11/26/wcf-duplex-via-websocket.aspx">http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2011/11/26/wcf-duplex-via-websocket.aspx</a></p> <p>•ASP.NET Documentation: </p> <p>●<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.websockets(v=vs.110).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.websockets%28v=vs.110%29.aspx</a></p> <p>●<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.websockets(v=vs.110).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.websockets%28v=vs.110%29.aspx</a></p> <p>•WebSocket.IO: <a href="https://github.com/learnboost/websocket.io">https://github.com/learnboost/websocket.io</a></p> <p>•Nice CSS &amp; JQuery scripts/samples: <a href="http://marcofolio.net">http://marcofolio.net</a></p> <p>Last but not least, I’d like to thank <a href="http://twitter.com/paulbatum" target="_blank">@paulbatum</a>, PM at Microsoft working on the WCF and ASP.NET  WebSocket features for helping me grok WebSockets in .NET 4.5. His guidance and thought leadership around WebSocket are invaluable to the community, so if you run into Paul, thank him or better yet, buy him a beer.</p> <p>Happy Messaging!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/337.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/03/29/building-speedy-azure-applications-with-html5-and-web-sockets-today.aspx Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:15:00 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/03/29/building-speedy-azure-applications-with-html5-and-web-sockets-today.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/337.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/337.aspx Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow&ndash;The Goods http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/05/02/microsoft-business-integration-roadshowndashthe-goods.aspx <p><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Microsoft-Business-Integration-Roadshow_8395/clip_image002_2.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="clip_image002" border="0" hspace="12" alt="clip_image002" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Microsoft-Business-Integration-Roadshow_8395/clip_image002_thumb.png" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p>We just wrapped up a great roadshow with Microsoft in 5 US cities including Philadelphia, Columbus, Houston, Phoenix and Mountain View highlighting the exciting new developments in the AppFabric platform.</p> <p>The event included a keynote briefing by a Microsoft Product Manager, a deep dive technical session led by our Connected Systems consultants and either a customer session or “Ask the Experts” panel to wrap things up.  </p> <p>The event was well received and there was lots of good discussion and questions.</p> <p>As promised, I am posting the deck as well as a link to a recorded version of the presentation for those who attended and would like to reference the material or those who were unable to attend. </p> <p>Abstract: <strong><em>Building Composite Application Services with AppFabric and BizTalk Server 2010</em></strong></p> <p>BizTalk Server 2010 and AppFabric provide a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying, and managing composite enterprise capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud. Come learn how AppFabric and BizTalk Server can benefit your approach to building and supporting application services at enterprise scale while transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise.</p> <p>Special thanks to the Neudesic team, including Justin Yanta, Monish Nagisetty, Brendon Birdoes and Stuart Celearier for doing such a great job on the deep dive sessions!</p> <br /><iframe style="padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: #fcfcfc; padding-left: 0px; width: 229px; padding-right: 0px; height: 66px; padding-top: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.office.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/Microsoft%20Business%20Integration%20Roadshow/Building%20Composite%20Enterprise%20Hybrid%20Services%20with%20BizTalk%202010%20and%20AppFabric.pdf" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><iframe style="padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: #fcfcfc; padding-left: 0px; width: 229px; padding-right: 0px; height: 66px; padding-top: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.office.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/Microsoft%20Business%20Integration%20Roadshow/livemeeting[1].wmv" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <p><font size="1">Note: Session starts at 2:30 mark.</font></p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/305.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/05/02/microsoft-business-integration-roadshowndashthe-goods.aspx Mon, 02 May 2011 18:03:56 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/05/02/microsoft-business-integration-roadshowndashthe-goods.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/305.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/305.aspx DB Tech Con 2011 http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/03/18/db-tech-con-2011.aspx <p><a href="https://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/regeventp.aspx?id=169"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" title="dbtechconbannerad" alt="dbtechconbannerad" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/5f7265b713fc_CA5A/dbtechconbannerad_3.gif" width="728" height="90" /></a></p> <p>I had the privilege of recording 3 sessions in the SSWUG studio this week for the upcoming DB Tech Con conference on April 20-22. This is the largest online conference in IT the world, with speakers covering topics ranging from .NET, SQL Server and cloud.</p> <p>The focus of my track is all about hybrid solutions in the enterprise and how you can take advantage of AppFabric and BizTalk as a comprehensive platform for building on-premise solutions that take advantage of the cloud in a pragmatic way.</p> <p>You can find the full session schedule by clicking <a href="http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/sessions.aspx?id=169&amp;offset=7">here</a> and below is an abstract of my sessions that will air starting April 20th: </p> <p><strong>Building Occasionally Connected Hybrid Applications </strong></p> <p>Keeping applications and devices synchronized with a company’s back office is a common challenge. Retail, transportation and oil and gas are just a few industries that rely on the ability of software solution deployed outside of the data center to be respond to external events that may occur virtually anywhere. As organizations move certain assets to the cloud, occasionally connected applications are becoming the norm, creating a new breed of hybrid applications. In this session, learn how to implement a sophisticated pattern for enabling push synchronization across your applications and services using Microsoft Sync Framework, SQL Azure and WCF 4.</p> <p><strong>Building Composite Enterprise Hybrid Services with AppFabric and BizTalk 2010</strong> <a href="https://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/regeventp.aspx?id=169"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="" border="0" alt="" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/5f7265b713fc_CA5A/sswug_button_spring2011_3.png" width="240" height="80" /></a></p> <p>AppFabric and BizTalk 2010 provide a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying, and managing composite enterprise capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud. Come learn how AppFabric and BizTalk Server can benefit your approach to building and supporting application services at enterprise scale while transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise. </p> <p><strong>Hosting WF Services in Windows Azure, Today &amp; Tomorrow </strong></p> <p>Workflow Services bring many benefits that help you build modern, responsive composite applications. Learn best practice for building and hosting Workflow Services on-premise as well as how you can take advantage of Windows Azure for hosting your workflow services today along with improvements coming to Windows Azure which will make hosting your workflow services in Azure more compelling than ever. </p> <p>The good folks at SSWUG are offering a $30 discount code on registration for anyone who provides a discount code of <strong>SP11DBTechRG </strong>during registration. If you’ve already registered, you can take advantage of this discount by updating your registration and providing the code.</p> <p>If you are planning on attending, drop me a line on <a href="http://twitter.com/rickggaribay" target="_blank">twitter</a> and be sure to say hi in the chat room when my sessions air.</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/304.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/03/18/db-tech-con-2011.aspx Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:38:03 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/03/18/db-tech-con-2011.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/304.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/304.aspx TechEd 2010 Bound http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/06/05/teched-2010-bound.aspx <p><a target="_blank" href="http://northamerica.msteched.com/Topic/List?fbid=fU-IGTvvQRg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" alt="clip_image001" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/TechEdNorthAmerica2010_D704/clip_image001.gif" /></a></p> <p>Well, its already that time. I’ll be flying into New Orleans tonight at about 9 pm, and am looking forward to connecting with some friends and taking in the sights and sounds of this great city. Its been about 9 years since I’ve been there and am curious to see how the city has changed since the storm.</p> <p>Conferences are always a great chance to connect with old friends, make new friends, and learn and share with others passionate about technology. TechEd 2010 will be no exception.<a target="_blank" href="http://northamerica.msteched.com/Topic/List?fbid=fU-IGTvvQRg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 5px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" width="240" height="190" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/TechEd2010Bound_843A/image.png" /></a></p> <p>If you’re in <a target="_blank" href="http://northamerica.msteched.com/Expo/List?fbid=fU-IGTvvQRg">The Learning Center</a> next week, stop by and say hi. I’ll be at the Windows Server AppFabric, WCF &amp; WF booth (Booth#: TLC/Blue/ASI) doing some demos and talking to folks about the exciting capabilities Windows Server AppFabric brings to the enterprise Business Platform.</p> <p>I also hope you’ll join me for what I hope will be an inspiring discussion on the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. You can find more information about the session here: <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/26/teched-north-america-2010.aspx">http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/26/teched-north-america-2010.aspx</a> and make sure to add it to your schedule using session builder by selecting “Birds-of-a-Feather” under Types and “Windows Server AppFabric” under Product Technology (note: should actually be in the Azure AppFabric category, we are working to fix this). This will be a highly interactive discussion with participants influencing the discussion.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://northamerica.msteched.com/Topic/List?fbid=fU-IGTvvQRg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 5px auto; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" width="873" height="243" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/TechEd2010Bound_843A/image_3.png" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/TechEd2010Bound_843A/image_4.png"></a></p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/284.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/06/05/teched-2010-bound.aspx Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:24:10 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/06/05/teched-2010-bound.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/284.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/284.aspx AZ Give Camp Call for Volunteers http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/06/az-give-camp-call-for-volunteers.aspx <p>AZGiveCamp is a massive weekend event where the software development community comes together to support charities and non-profits by developing or improving their web sites and applications. It's fun, it's agile, it's geeky, and it's good for the community. More about AZGiveCamp here: <a href="http://azgivecamp.org/FAQs/FAQ.aspx">http://azgivecamp.org/FAQs/FAQ.aspx</a></p> <p><strong>WHAT</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p>We are in the process of identifying and selecting charities and are looking for<strong> Dev Leads</strong> and <strong>BA/PM Leads</strong> for each charity team.</p> <p>The Dev Lead and BA/PM Lead forms the <strong>leadership team</strong> for each charity team, with immediate responsibilities including:</p> <ul> <li>The <strong>Dev Lead</strong> will be responsible for partnering with the <strong>BA/PM Lead</strong> and the charity team to conduct requirements elicitation, draft a vision statement and develop the <strong>charity sponsor relationship</strong> to scope and commit to what the team hopes to accomplish the weekend of AZ GiveCamp.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The <strong>BA/PM Lead</strong> will be responsible for partnering with the <strong>Dev Lead</strong> and the charity team to conduct requirements elicitation, draft a vision statement and develop the <strong>charity sponsor relationship</strong> to scope and commit to what the team hopes to accomplish the weekend of AZ GiveCamp.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The <strong>Dev Lead</strong> and<strong> BA/PM Lead</strong> will be responsible for <strong>building a team</strong> of 3 to 5 additional volunteers to<strong> deliver</strong> the project over the weekend of AZ Give Camp. This means coding, building, configuring, testing, etc all weekend until the job is done.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The <strong>Dev Lead</strong> and<strong> BA/PM Lead</strong> will be responsible for <strong>self-organizing</strong>, <strong>mentoring</strong>, <strong>guiding</strong> and <strong>managing risk</strong> on the project team the weekend of the event from the evening of 5/21 through the afternoon of 5/23.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Note:</strong> While there will be plenty of room for creative license, the name of the game is scale so the vast majority of *<strong>new</strong>* charity work will entail the delivery of CMS using Sitefinity, Sharepoint 2007/2010, WordPress as the main delivery platforms. Exceptions can always be made so any ideas are welcome as long as they don’t entail re-inventing a wheel that already exists.</p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>WHEN</strong></p> <p>May 21st - 23rd, 2010</p> <p><strong>WHERE</strong></p> <p>Chandler Senior Center</p> <p><strong>ACTION</strong></p> <p>Everyone in the community has an opportunity to make a visible impact on this event. If you are interested in volunteering to be a <strong>Dev Lead</strong> or <strong>BA/PM Lead </strong>please <a href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">contact</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">me</a> <a href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">here</a>.</p> <p>If you are not interested in the leadership role, but would like to be an individual contributor, register ASAP with a preferred team name and if you don’t have a team name yet, please enter “PCSUG” here and we can change it later: <a href="http://azgivecamp.org/Volunteer.aspx">http://azgivecamp.org/Volunteer.aspx</a> You will then be interviewed and matched with the appropriate charity team based on your skillset and interests.</p> <p><strong>***</strong> <strong>IMPORTANT***</strong></p> <p>Please be mindful that regardless of role chosen, this is a hard commitment that you are making to be engaged and involved in this event from the time you volunteer through the evening of May 23<sup>rd</sup>. There will be ebbs and flows and periods of intense commitment. You are volunteering to make a marked impact on this event and giving up your entire weekend on the evening of 5/21 through 5/23. </p> <p><strong>OTHER WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <ul> <li><strike>Know of a killer charity that would kill for a CMS to get them up and running? Little r me and I will get you connected to our charity director. Please note that we are particularly interested in helping smaller, local charities and non-profits.</strike></li> <li>Have some Sharepoint licenses sitting around or have a connection with a friend at Microsoft to get some Sharepoint love to a charity in need? The more the merrier! Please <a href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">contact</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">me</a> <a href="http://www.rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">here</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to working with you to make the first AZGiveCamp a huge success!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/277.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/06/az-give-camp-call-for-volunteers.aspx Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:23:20 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/06/az-give-camp-call-for-volunteers.aspx#feedback 1 http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/277.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/277.aspx Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Event Content Download http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/03/13/visual-studio-2010-ultimate-event-content-download.aspx <p>Thanks to all who came out to the event in Phoenix, Salt Lake City &amp; Las Vegas. We had a great turnout at all events with great questions and discussions.</p> <p>Remember that the conversation continues on <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23vs2010phx">twitter</a>. <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23vs2010slc"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" width="240" height="162" src="http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/VisualStudio2010UltimateEventSaltLakeCit_8195/image_4.png" /></a> </p> <p>If you attended the event and have a question or comment for any of the presenters, use the following hashtags: </p> <ul> <li>Phoenix: #vs2010phx </li> <li>Salt Lake City: #vs2010slc </li> <li>Las Vegas: #vs2010vegas</li> </ul> <p align="center">Below are the presentations from all four sessions in each city:   </p> <p> </p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="912"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Phoenix</td> <td valign="top" width="421">A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Lap%20Around%20VS%202010%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Phoenix</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Agile Management with TFS</td> <td valign="top" width="473"><a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.neudesic.com/blogs/brendon_birdoes/default.aspx">Brendon Birdoes</a></td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/TFS%202010%20Agile%20Management%20Brendon.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>*</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Phoenix</td> <td valign="top" width="421">No More "No Repro"</td> <td valign="top" width="473"><a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.neudesic.com/blogs/brendon_birdoes/default.aspx">Brendon Birdoes</a></td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/No%20More%20No%20Repro%20Brendon.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>*</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Phoenix</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Architecture for Everyone</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Architecture%20for%20Everyone%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Salt Lake City</td> <td valign="top" width="421">A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Lap%20Around%20VS%202010%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Salt Lake City</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Agile Management with TFS</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Jeff Leite</td> <td valign="top" width="146">*<iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/TFS%202010%20Agile%20Project%20Management.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Salt Lake City</td> <td valign="top" width="421">No More "No Repro"</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Jeff Leite</td> <td valign="top" width="146">*<iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/No%20More%20No%20Repro.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Salt Lake City</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Architecture for Everyone</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Architecture%20for%20Everyone%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Las Vegas</td> <td valign="top" width="421">A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Lap%20Around%20VS%202010%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Las Vegas</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Agile Management with TFS</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Mickey Williams</td> <td valign="top" width="146">*<iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/TFS%202010%20Agile%20Project%20Management.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Las Vegas</td> <td valign="top" width="421">No More "No Repro"</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Mickey Williams</td> <td valign="top" width="146">*<iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/No%20More%20No%20Repro.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="190">Las Vegas</td> <td valign="top" width="421">Architecture for Everyone</td> <td valign="top" width="473">Rick G. Garibay</td> <td valign="top" width="146"><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 250px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 59px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/Talks/VS%202010%20Ultimate/Architecture%20for%20Everyone%20Garibay.pptx" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>* Note that content for all venues is very similar but may vary from presenter to presenter. <strike>All content for both venues will be available soon so please check back shortly.</strike></p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/275.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/03/13/visual-studio-2010-ultimate-event-content-download.aspx Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:45:01 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/03/13/visual-studio-2010-ultimate-event-content-download.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/275.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/275.aspx PCSUG AZ Million Meal Event 11/21 http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/11/02/pcsug-az-million-meal-event-1121.aspx <p><img src="http://www.pcsug.org/Content/Images/Logo.jpg" /><a href="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=380"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.fmsc.org/view.image?Id=470" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>The Phoenix Connected Systems User Group is partnering with the <a href="http://www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/az" target="_blank">Feed My Starving Children</a> organization to pack food for thousands of needy children who need your help.</p> <p>Join us as we pack <strong>1 million meals</strong> for Feed My Starving Children in just one weekend. <strong>That’s enough to feed more than 2,700 children for a year!</strong> We will need thousands of <strong>volunteers</strong> to pack these life-saving meals. We also need to raise more than <strong>$170,000</strong> to pay for production costs.</p> <p><strong>About Feed My Starving Children</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/az" target="_blank">Feed My Starving Children</a> is a non-profit Christian organization (see FAQs below) committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals formulated specially for starving children, and <a href="http://www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/az" target="_blank">FMSC</a> ships the meals to more than 60 countries around the world. </p> <p>This year, <a href="http://www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/az" target="_blank">Feed My Starving Children</a> is committing to providing 91 million meals.</p> <p><strong>How can you help?</strong></p> <p>Join <a href="http://www.pcsug.org/Home/Events">PCSUG</a> on <strong>Saturday, 11/21 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ</strong>. In this 2 hour shift, we’ll pack thousands of meals to be distributed worldwide and help FMSC get one step closer to their goal of 1 million meals.</p> <p>Volunteering your time and energy to help pack these meals for which there is an urgent need is our highest priority. If you can help, please register for the 9:00 am shift on 11/21 here: <a title="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891</a></p> <p>In addition, <a href="http://www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/az" target="_blank">Feed My Starving Children</a> is accepting donations of $40 per volunteer to cover the production costs of the food. Just $40 pays for the ingredients you pack, and $62 feeds a child for a year! To make an online donation, click <a href="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383">here</a>. </p> <p>Please note that donations are <strong>not</strong> a requirement to contribute. </p> <p><strong>FAQs</strong></p> <p>Here are some common questions from the FAQ : <a title="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=278" href="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=278">http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=278</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Where do you send your food?</strong>  </p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>We have sent food to more than 60 countries including Haiti, Sudan, Jamaica, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Lesotho, Liberia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Cambodia, East Timor, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Cameroon, Niger, Colombia, and El Salvador, and to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana and Mississippi. </p> <p><strong>Do you feed children here in the United States?</strong>  </p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) targets feeding programs to children who are in the most severe circumstances, those suffering from severe malnutrition and threatened with death from starvation.  The United States does not have that level of hunger on a widespread basis.  In the past we have supplied food to an Indian reservation in South Dakota and to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.</p> <p><strong>How long have you been doing this?</strong>  </p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Feed My Starving Children was founded in 1987; the first shipment of the current food formula was sent in 1991.  </p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><strong>Do you have to be a Christian to pack?</strong>  </p> <p>No.  We welcome people of every faith to participate in our life-giving mission. <br /></p> <p><strong>Do you require delivery of a Christian message when the food is served?</strong>  </p> <p>No.  Our food is given to the neediest children, regardless of their faith or whether a Christian message is delivered.  All of God’s children deserve to be fed. <br /><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Can the hunger problem ever be solved?</strong>  </p> <p>There is currently enough food in the world to feed everyone.  The model FMSC has created works.  With many people working together, we can have a significant impact on hunger and malnutrition worldwide. <br /></p> <p><strong>What makes FMSC food so special for a malnourished child?</strong>  </p> <p>Our food was designed by food scientists at Cargill and General Mills to meet the nutritional needs of a 4-to-8-year-old malnourished child.  Each meal has 20 different vitamins and minerals that are specifically tailored to meet a child’s nutritional needs for one day. <br /></p> <p><strong>How old do you have to be to volunteer?</strong>  </p> <p>Children should be in third grade or older to participate.  Younger children may have difficulty reaching to pour food into and packing food in the ingredient funnels.  We realize that there will be some mixed age groups, in which case  we ask that younger children work one-on-one with an adult and are not left unattended.</p> </blockquote> <p>The Saturday shift is limited to 52 volunteers, which, at capacity can pack up to 30,000 meals. I would love nothing more than to hear that Eventbrite is out of tickets for that shift!</p> <p>Thank you for considering this opportunity to volunteer and give back to the community in a much needed way!</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Register Here: <a title="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891</a></p> <p>Donate Here: <a title="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383" href="http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383">http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383</a></p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/266.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/11/02/pcsug-az-million-meal-event-1121.aspx Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:42:10 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/11/02/pcsug-az-million-meal-event-1121.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/266.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/266.aspx Desert Code Camp November 7th http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/10/31/desert-code-camp-november-7th.aspx <p>I will be speaking at <a href="http://www.desertcodecamp.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">DCC</a> on November 7th on the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>Developing and Deploying an On-Premise .NET Application with Azure Table Storage </li> <li>Developing and Deploying a WCF Application with Azure Compute Services and Azure Table Storage</li> </ul> <p>There are several excellent sessions this time around, including talks from fellow colleagues at <a title="" href="http://neudesic.com" rel="">Neudesic</a> like <a href="http://www.imaginaryrealities.com/" target="_blank">Michael Collins</a>, <a href="http://www.imaginaryrealities.com/" target="_blank">Joel Neubeck</a> and Andrew Wilson.</p> <p>Hope to see you there!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/265.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/10/31/desert-code-camp-november-7th.aspx Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:11:22 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/10/31/desert-code-camp-november-7th.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/265.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/265.aspx