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The amount of innovation and creativity in this event is just amazing! I haven’t seen anything at this magnitude before. Two weeks ago, I was in the Opera House in Poland looking forward to see the finalists who were selected as the top projects in the Imagine Cup 2010. There were no less than 325,000 students (!) that submitted their projects from the entire world and only 400 came to Poland eventually. You can think of it as if each competitor that made it to Poland was chosen from almost 1000...
Imagine Cup Israel 2010 Software Design Finals On May 3 rd , 2010, we held the Imagine Cup Israel Software Design Finals. The competition this year started with 30 teams from 9 different institutes from which 18 teams competed in the finals. 400 people attended the event including students, faculty and people from the industry, venture capitals, journalists and MS employees. This year, we raised the bar with a very successful event in every possible metric. The event was hosted in the College of...
The videos from the keynotes yesterday are available from http://www.sela.co.il/s/dev4/dev4.html Go to the icon of the video and scroll the bar to the 48:30 minute to see the Windows Azure 25 minutes overview.
In this post I’d like to remind the key takeaways from the Windows Azure keynotes today. The purpose of the talk was basically to present answers to 5 questions: Why, What, Where, When and How…. Why should developers care about the cloud? (1) To save costs by paying to the cloud provider for what they consume and not upfront (2) To reduce the complexity for the developers of taking care of computation and storage resources that you can get from the cloud in a more elastic and manageable manner. What...
Wow, what an event! 1700 Developers and thousands more live through the Internet participated in the annual developers event. During the keynotes today, I had the pleasure of launching the cloud platform for developers, the Windows Azure Platform. In this post, I’ll talk about the end of my session that included a demo that was running on Windows Azure and its purpose was to present a questionnaire to the developers in the audience who use Twitter. The service in the cloud asked the audience 3 questions...
Take advantage of the new Silverlight 4 training course on Channel 9 Learning Center where you will learn about the latest features of the Silverlight 4 Beta, announced at the Professional Developers Conference 2009. I’m proud that this course was developed by our local Silverlight MVP, Alexander Golesh from Sela Group as part of Sela’s cooperation with Microsoft Corp. Some of the new and highly anticipated features include Printing, Webcam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich...
Visual Studio 2010 is going to be available in just two months from now, on April 12th, 2010. Some of the things that customers are continually asking from us in the ALM space is that VS 2010 provides is more support for requirements and tests management. These two parts had lower presence in previous versions of Visual Studio Team System but looking at VS 2010, we can definitely see great progress there with regards to new functionalities and scenarios. In the following link , you can find a slide...
3 days ago, Maor David and I had the chance to co-present and speak on Microsoft’s recent announcements for the cloud. The “World Summit of Cloud Computing” as part of IGT took place in Shefaim convention center with 400 people attending. It was published as a global event and therefore it was all conducted in English. From the feedbacks we’ve got, people were very impressed from our roadmap and offerings for Public Cloud Windows Azure Platform , our Private Cloud with Dynamic Data Center Toolkit...
תגים:S+S, Software + Services, Dev, Azure, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, Project Sydney, App Fabric, BPOS
A few months ago, I was approached by Diego Dagum, a dear friend and a great architect who also happens to be the Editor-In-Chief for the MSDN Architecture Journal . Diego asked if I would like to work with him on the SOA edition for the Architecture Journal as a Guest Editor-In-Chief. Looking back, I’d say it was a great experience to be able to impact the contents and vision of such an important edition that reaches 10,000s of architects around the world. The result was an Edition that discusses...
Throughout these moments, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect is announcing the general availability of the Windows Azure Platform. The Windows Azure Platform will provide Infrastructure & Management Services (Windows Azure), Database Services (SQL Azure) and Developer Services (.NET Services). In the next few months, Israel will be the first country in MEA to launch the Windows Azure Platform. In preparation for the launch, we will participate in the World Summit of Cloud Computing event...
A few weeks ago, I was invited to present at the VP R&D forum in Tel-Aviv. The presentation (divided into two parts) included lots and lots of updates on the development technologies we have today and those that we will release to the market in the future. This is a presentation I use variations of with different customers and partners to show where Microsoft is and where we're going with our development technologies. The presentation can be downloaded from my skydrive folders . The...
תגים:.NET, Visual Studio, VSTS, Patterns & Practices, DataDude, .NET 3.5, WCF, Developers, Platform Strategy, Dev, WPF, WF, Dublin, LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework, Microsoft Development Roadmap
Many customers are asking us the Why question. Why should we migrate to .NET 3.5 if we work with one of the previous versions of .NET? In order to answer this question, it is important to know what .NET and Visual Studio versions we are using. The older these versions are, the more benefits you get out of migrating to .NET 3.5. Each version brings additional benefits that I'll try to summarize in this post. It is also important to note that the Benefits Are Additive since each version introduced...
In the last month, I found out that more and more customers want to hear about the benefits we are about to reveal in Visual Studio Team System 2010, also known as "Rosario". Team System 2010 is what we call a MAJOR release with many important features. However, if I want to summarize the benefits in two words, I would definitely say Architecture & Testing. Microsoft has put a lot of effort and innovation in the Architecture and Test Editions which makes them market leader products...
Recently, I've been asked by one of our customers about what is Microsoft doing in the spaces of EII and MDM. Usually, customers who seek for these solutions have multiple data sources and they wish for an integrated view and queries of the entities in the organization. Before I answer these questions, here's a short recap about the terms: EII – Enterprise Information Integration - A software that combines various data sources at an enterprise level in order to support applications that present...
I'd like to recommend a book which can be viewed as the most up-to-date comprehensive architecture guide for software applications developed using Microsoft .NET technologies. As it says in the introduction to the book: "The purpose of the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 is to improve your effectiveness when building applications on the Microsoft platform. The primary audience for this guide is solution architects and development leads. The guide provides design-level guidance for the...
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