This site went into hibernation in October and since then I have not pushed the resume button. Why such a delay? There are reasons which you are not interested in reading and I’m not interested in writing. So I will skip all the oooh I couldn’t blog because I was sooo busy yada yada yada [...]

This is a very smart commercial for Windows 7. A clever way to praise a product without taking a dig on others. Maybe Apple will learn a thing or two from this. Enjoy.

Keynote for TechEd Australia started a bit slow with too much concentration on words such as innovation, excitement and productivity. Keynote was saved by awesome presentations by Sara Ford and Sarah Vaughan. Rest of the day was fantastic. A combination of excellent topics and superb presentation skills made it a worthy learning day.
The best [...]

Some of you may know that author of this site (that’s me in case you are thinking) is attending his first ever TechEd. TechEd to me is like woodstock for developers and other IT people who come in masses for this amazing and full of geek energy event. Over next few posts I will write [...]

Riviera is a sample application for Windows Azure available on MSDN Code Gallery for download. Riviera has been developed by Platform Evangelism group in collaboration with Cumulx who are a Cloud ISV partner. Key features of Riviera are:

Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
Per tenant customization of data model
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Microsoft PDC 2009 site is now accepting registrations. PDC 2009 will run from 17th November to 19th November 2009 at Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles. Here is pricing information from PDC website.

I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe [...]

 Much awaited Windows 7 went RTM today. Microsoft’s new Operating System is scheduled to be available to available to public around October 22. MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 in next few weeks, most likely around August 6. Comparing to release of Vista this looks much more well executed. Windows [...]

Jim Nakashima has announced the availability of Windows Azure Tools and SDK July 2009 CTP. Here are the download links:

Windows Azure Tools For Visual Studio 2008 And Visual Studio 2010 (also includes the SDK).
Windows Azure SDK only.

 
Here is a list of new goodies in July 2009 CTP re-posted from this link. 
New for the July [...]

Because of my karma and auspicious planetary alignments I got an email yesterday notifying me that I can access Technical Preview of Office 2010. Needless to say that I downloaded a 32bit edition immediately. This is a teaser post with screenshots of Office 2010 setup on Windows XP. Enjoy.

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Microsoft has released Silverlight 3. Nuff said! Go and get it here.

Today I visited ebay for I think the 5th time in my life and I found that they have a new sidebar for Internet Explorer 8. What’s cool about this side bar is that it uses Silverlight.. You can view your active auctions and get information on your bids. A cool addin for ebay users.
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SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit is available for download from Microsoft. Here is some information about this training kit taken from Microsoft’s site.
The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server [...]