October 2009 Entries
In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java Bridge, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and many more stories. Finally Dave tells us all about the User Experience project role, how development projects can benefit from it and how Developers and Designers need to play nice together. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!
During my time with Windows Azure development I have been curious to actually time what it takes to deploy my Azure ASP.NET website to Production/Staging environments. Finally during my move to “USA – SouthWest” (required due to the upcoming shutdown of the previous CTP environment) I timed the various steps and here is the info. Production Deployment: Hit “Deploy” button on my package 00:00 – I pressed the “deploy” button once i selected my package files 00:58 – Processed Finished with “Allocated” message, I now had to Run the...
Today a friend (thanks Mike) reported that Cranky Geeks podcast #189 started to make claims (about 11:01 in) that Silverlight was “dead”. This is crazy, Silverlight is a successful and powerful technology, I would more believe that peace has finally come to the middle east then this news. So just to be fair, I don't work for the Silverlight team and have no inside knowledge, but based on common sense, Internet Searches and previous knowledge my best bet is that John got confused (what else is new?) and mixed up Silverlight Streaming with Silverlight itself. ...
Lachesis from Razer I recently purchased a Lachesis Mouse to run on my Windows 7 x64 bit operating system. I’ve needed a better mouse for a while (I have a stock Dell mouse now and its horrible for gaming) so finally decided to give Razer a try. I purchased a Lachesis mouse, installed the driver (v1.10) and started toying around with it. Quickly I noticed something strange, it kept scrolling up-left when i would stop moving, odd. I did some digging and it seems that im not the only one with this problem. The mouse...
In this episode, guest Claudio Caldato joins Peter to discuss interoperability at Microsoft and how his team is working to make Windows Azure cloud services more accessible to PHP developers. Claudio provides us details on the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services. Guest host G. Andrew Duthie joins Peter to discuss Office Starter 2010, the wonders of VHDs, Red Hat & Microsoft interoperability, the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, and “Are we really smarter than you?”. To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=18 Related Resources: Claudio Caldato & Interoperability at Microsoft: PHP Toolkit for...
I just got an email from the SQL Azure team (see below) of an upcoming maintenance. This is actually very exciting as it means SQL Azure is going to be one step closer to final deployment. I use SQL Azure right now for the Connected Show website and have really enjoyed the benefits of not having to manage my own SQL Server to store podcast data. I look forward to staying with this solution once SQL Azure goes live! If you have not taken the time to check out SQL Azure and see all the...
This week, guest Joe Stagner joins Peter to discuss the future of ASP.NET, what it means to be the Misfit Geek at Microsoft, what Plan 9 means for web developers and some comparisons to PHP. Dmitry and Peter discuss the news with Windows Azure management, Courier tablet rumors, the new Website Spark program, and duct tape programming. (Due to some technical glitches that were resolved through the use of duct tape, we’re bringing you episode 17 a week later than we planned to, hope you enjoy it and sorry for the delay) To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=17...