John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Here are some random and early notes from the first half of the PDC’s keynote this morning, mostly about Azure. * Windows Azure [http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130227] * Cloud service operating system * Part of the new cloud computing services platform (Azure Services Pla
[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/StraynotesaboutbluehoofromthePDC2008_B337/image_2.png] * BlueHoo * Deploying and connecting with Azure services Download available today around noon PST at http://m.bluehoo.com Interesting logos :) bluehoo bl
In an article yesterday, Engadget [http://www.engadget.com/] labeled Silverlight [https://www.johnpapa.net/tags/silverlight/] as an also ran. The article is about how Netflix has announced it will use Silverlight to stream movies to the Mac [http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/netflix-finally-brings-
There is a fresh new look to the .NET logo. Its got a little bit of Silverlight [https://www.johnpapa.net/tags/silverlight/]-iness and retains the Visual Studio logo similarities. Overall it is a nice new look.
Today I went to Tampa and presented a Day of Silverlight 2 with Data Access at the Microsoft office. It was a free event and I like to think everyone was there to see my presentation, but it could also have been because it was free and we gave away a ton of swag including a free MSDN subscription. T
