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My SDP 13 sessions demo code

Sela Developer Practice for 2013 is finishing it’s breakout sessions stage, and I had three fun sessions: Things Every Developer Most Know about HTTP Big-Time: Introducing HDInsight service (Hadoop on Azure) Get your Node.js Under Control with TypeScript I had great time, and would like to thank all attendees for attending my sessions. You can find my demo’s code in my Sky Drive . Next on Thursday, I have a full day workshop on Node.js, with lot’s of good stuff planned like: Express and hosting node...

SDP 2013 Bigger Longer & Uncut

After speaking in few international conferences outside of Israel in the past 6 months, I have the pleasure of taking part in another conference which is near and dear to me: Sela’s own SDP . This year our conference is bigger and stronger than ever with an international lineup, including Jesse Liberty , Shawn Wildermuth , Udi Dahan and Mike Martin who will also be speaking in my user group, The Windows Azure community , that month. This SDP I have the pleasure of giving four breakout sessions: Things...

BUILD 2012 - Day 2

uild is starting to pick up and today was actually packed with Windows Azure actions. The keynote had a couple of cool announcements and a couple of extremely cool hidden jams. The keynote was led by Satya Nadella. The first thing that caught my eye was a slid showing strategic Windows Azure based operations. One logo belonged to my good friends PlayMyTone and it's a good opportunity to congratulate Ohad and the gang for the great job they have been doing. Satya Nadella (Photography by Bnaya...

Upcoming events: Øredev, SDP and the Windows Azure/Web Developers Communities Holidays special

As always, September is a very special time for me. This year, in addition to my b-day and the Jewish high holidays September marks the beginning of a very intensive period, packed with both public events and very special projects. So without farther ado here are the events that have been keeping me busy lately:   The first thing in my very busy calendar is the Windows Azure/Web Developers Communities Holidays special which is going to take place in the Microsoft R&D center in Herzliyya...

Hadoop on Azure - Creating and Running a simple Java MapReduce

Apache Hadoop has a variety of APIs for developing MapReduce applications: you can use the streaming API to create MapReduce applications with almost any programming language, Hadoop pipes adds native support for C++ applications and Hadoop on Azure provides it’s IsotopeJS library for creating JavaScript MapReduce jobs. You can also use a variety of higher-level abstractions and libraries such as Pig and Hive . With that said and done, it is also useful to know how to develop MapReduce applications...

Upcoming Gigs: REST, Web API and Hadoop

It seems that every time I have a talk about Web API’s something big happens, last time Microsoft moved it from WCF to ASP.NET and this week Microsoft announced about the release of ASP.NET web stack under an open source license. This announcement comes a the beginning of a couple of very exciting months for me covered with talks about few things that ware the focus of my professional life for the past year: REST, Web API On Monday, April 2, I will be talking @ the Israeli web developers community...