May 2009 Entries
In this episode Dmitry welcomes a new co-host, Peter Laudati. Next, we speak to Maarten Balliauw about the new PHP SDK for Windows Azure which is designed to help PHP developers use Windows Azure services. To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=5 Related Resources: Maarten Balliauw’s Blog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/ Peter Laudati’s Blog: http://www.PeterLaudati.com PHP SDK for Windows Azure: http://phpazure.codeplex.com Webcasts, videos, virtual labs and podcasts: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/azure.aspx Azure training kit (including PHP samples): http://www.microsoft.com/azure/trainingkit.mspx Other Azure SDK's: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx ...
I'd like to announce that Peter C. Laudati of Microsoft DPE is now my co-host of the ConnectedShow! Podcast. Welcome Peter and thank you for coming on board!
For more on Peter, check out his blog: http://www.PeterLaudati.com
In June I will be speaking once again in NYC on a very interesting topic, “PRISM v2.0”. On a personal note, I have been fortune enough to actually work on a project that implements PRISM in a WPF application and I am very happy with the results. Here is the info, hope to see you all there. When: June 15th, 2009, 6:00pm Where: Silverlight User group hosted by Erik Stepp Microsoft Office in NYC 1290 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave. & 51 St.) New York, NY 10019 ...
Just a a quick note that I have fixed all the blog postings to show the correct new URL for my podcast: http://www.connectedShow.com/.
Also as you can see in my previous entry I have finally made available the 4th episode, its a great Interview and my first Skype recording, I do hope you check it out and provide feedback!
Future Episodes...
I have many more shows lined up and hope to begin delivering them to you in a more regular fashion. Thanks for reading folks and for your continued support.
In this episode we speak with James Senior of Microsoft Corporation about the Live Messenger Web Toolkit release. James gives an overview of how the toolkit can be easily used to add social features like Instant Messaging and Contact information to web applications
To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=4
Related Resources:
http://blogs.technet.com/james/
http://dev.live.com/messenger/
I recently started to look at what people are building related to Windows Azure storage management and found some interesting projects on CodePlex. While I am at an early stage of analysis on whether or not these projects work as intended, I have decided to feature some of the more interesting ones below. As always, use them at your own risk! Azure CodePlex Projects Azure Storage Explorer Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting the data in your Azure cloud storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications. All three types...
I was bored the other day and found someone having a problem with the MediaPlayer class. The person was trying to use a MediaTimeline to setup an infinite loop of a wave file, sounds easy right? Well for whatever reason every time he would play the file it would skip and not play clearly. I got curious and decided to try his code out for myself. For whatever reason, in my case I could not even get any sound to play at all! So, frustrated, i quickly created an example that wrapped the MediaPlayer class and created some...