Azure and interoperability

Microsoft announced at PDC09 that they will support more platforms than just .NET on Windows Azure. Azure now has an interoperability page where they show some of the options.
SDKs’ for

PHP
Java
Ruby

Tools for

Eclipse
Java
Ruby
PHP

This really broadens the potential customer base. Pair the Eclipse Tools for Windows Azure with the newly acquired TeamPrise offering and Java developers [...]

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More fun stuff from PDC09

Don Box and Chris Anderson showed an example where they used CGI, C and Assembler to write a Windows Azure application. Assembler on Azure?!
Bob Muglia showed Project Sydney – a way to connect applications running in the cloud to servers running in your local datacenters. Sydney will come out as beta early next year.
Virtual Machine [...]

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News from PDC09

Unfortunately I’m not at this years PDC. Would really have liked to go there..
Right now I’m looking for the keynote video, but it’s not available yet. Found some interesting information about what was covered on the keynote at Microsoft PressPass: Microsoft Cloud Services Vision Becomes Reality With Launch of Windows Azure Platform.
Especially three new things [...]

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The PDC2008 session list

Mike Swanson has been kind enough to make a list of all the PDC2008 sessions and keynotes. They’re all listed with code, title and a links to Channel 9 for the video and also links to powerpoints and code.
Update: forgot the link.. (thanks Johan) http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/pages/PDC2008Sessions.aspx

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Last day of the conferense

Went to the Askt The Experts yesterday. It was fun as always. I had a chat with people from the Team architect team, live Mesh and Oslo Repository.
First session of the day: Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services
Technorati Tags: PDC2008

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Team Architect stuff

I watched the presentation Architecture without Big Design Up Front, presented by Peter Provost. He, as a member of the Agile community had a different spin on the architecture capabilities. Not as much designing architecture in the ivory tower and dropping it on the developers but as a tool for demystifying code. Capabilites like automatic [...]

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When wrong goes good

I was going for one session. But I entered the wrong room and got into the room where the session “Oslo”: Repository and Models  was to be held. I had considered this session as well and determined to stay. Lucky me! The session before this one was mediocre, this one however was very interesting and [...]

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Reflections on PDC2008 so far

Some inteesting things they showed at PDC:
Windows Azure – The biggest thing presented so far I think. The idea of cloud computing suddenly got somewhat more concrete with Microsofts offering. Time will tell how successfull Azure will be, but the concept is tempting. I got myself an Azure account yesterday and will be doing some [...]

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Windows Azure – I’m in

I just received my credentials for logging on and using Windows Azure.
Now I can start testing some of the cool stuf that Chris and Don showed on the Keynote.
And connect, somehow, to Oslo and integrate with my Live account, calendar maybe? Fun fun fun

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What is "Oslo"?

I heard on a pod cast “A tool, a language, and a runtime”.

After the previous session, “A lap around Oslo” (the blurry picture is from that session, it was clear that DSLs could be both visual and textual (or rather viewed as?).
First impression: Oslo is more interesting than I thought it would be before this [...]

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