Search results matching tag 'PDC2008'

Live from PDC: Windows Azure

aerben — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:19:10 GMT

Microsoft's new Platform for Cloud Computing: Windows Azure

A key element is managing and modeling your services

All represented in XML

This intro was then followed by demos, hello world and ...

... "BlueHoo" another social-networking platform... YooHoo - blabla

Pre-PDC architecture session around SOA vs Synchronization

aerben — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:36:53 GMT

Damir, Edin and myself just had a long architecture session on how to combine SOA and synchronization concepts.

The big problem is that participants in a communication share information across boundaries and beyond control of one participant only. They also might offer non-trivial logic where the semantics are not completely shared but that creates results that are then shared with other participants. No meaningful conflict-resolution algorithms can be defined.

Here are some of our diagrams:

Instead of agitatedly discussing about it...

Maybe we would get a better view on a solution from a different perspective:

Andreas' Visual Intro Guide to PDC08

aerben — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:49:04 GMT

First things first: Already a great crowd on the first day of the pre-conference. Met a bunch of nice people and old acquaintances and friends right away.

Step by step how to get to PDC from downtown Los Angeles

Walk in that direction

Pass this on your right side

Until you see this

Enter right there

Go down here

Choose a T-Shirt size

and pick up your stuff (before Tuesday you will only get a part of the SWAG).

This is what you get on Sunday/Monday

No Windows 7 or other BITS yet!

... do not forget to enjoy LA downtown when walking around

Stay tuned!