PDC Keynote – Ray Ozzie
Live from PDC 09 :
Ray is on the stage. There are going to be a lot of talking about server side today, and more on Client side tomorrow. It also going to be about mobile devices and the next Windows mobile 7.
Loic Lemeur (from Seesmic.com) is talking about about the their application powered by Silverlight. Shipping today Seesmic for Windows . On windows have current location give you the possibility to add plug-ins and more.
Windows Azure which have filled many slots on the Conference agenda is being referenced as a Windows server managed by Azure system center, public and private cloud. Model based extension to Windows.
This is one year since the original declaration on last PDC, it’s announced that it’s in Production. On February customer billing will begin.
Features coming out from Azure :
- Using it in VS2010
- API’s
- VMs
- Support for any pattern of roles (Not only VS)
- PHP, Java Apps and MySQL working with Azure
- Fast CGI Support
- Entity Group transactions
- Snapshot and Copy
- Block Blobbing and much more
- Azure extra – Durable blob to NTFS vhd
- SQL Azure has been transformed – Database in the cloud. you can create a database when you need one, without carrying about all the rest. Supporting ADO.NET, XML, Sql transactions and more
WordPress by Automatic, working a lot with Azure on the Preview phase.
Matt Mullenweg Fouder, Automatic (WordPress) :
- Talking about scaling up on some WordPress based blogs (www.oddlyspecific.com – funny blog) running on Windows Azzure. on the backend there is a plugin for Wordpress.
Infrastructure delivered as a service. Microsoft PinPoint. Directed to Programmers, integrated into the partner network (www.pinpoint.com), Office and sharepoint communication online, bring your service to a common marketplace for developers. 
Announcing Dallas CTP. Open Catalog and marketplace for Data. A uniform discovery for Data. Trial Datasets. A uniform way to bring Data as a service.
Dave Cambel (Technical Fellow from Microsoft) is talking about Dallas :
Catalog, Subscription and account management. Discovery and exploring of data from services, at a first look it looks like a kind of UDDI for data services. Generating a proxy for your .NET program to connect that service
He demonstrates WPF in front of the generated proxy to the service model of Dallas and showing 3D images from Mars.
Bob Muglia is on Stage talking about the cloud. How to make a group of computers delivering it as a service.
Bing and online services as an example working across hunderd of thousands of computers. it work on “Auto Pilot”, if something goes down, another comes up. Talking about a cloud you should take in mind that it’s always available, Scale-out, Elastic, Model Driven, Self Service, federating, Staging, on-line evolvement of applications etc…
Private cloud as a local Azure is also available.
Don Box is on stage, writing a CGI web site and some Ajax code in front of a SQL Azure, it’s very easy to write a simple application that works with these services (of course Don box gave a good show as always).
Andy Lapin from “Kelly Blue Book”, showing a Silverlight application working with some datacenters, showing how to make a data sync with SQL Azure working with a wizard that make it almost automatic.
There will be a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role type to help move existing Apps to the cloud !
Announcing AppFabric (Beta), provides a platform for building WCF and WF services on the cloud, and also providing a database cache to use it.
(Also mentioning Go live license on Visual Studio 2010 FW 4.0)
Douglas Pury is talking about Application Model project template in VS2010.
(not on VS2010 B2 yet). looks nice in terms of architectural diagram building a Azure project using MVC, WCF and WF altogether.
More on PDC later on…