October 2008 - Posts

    On the Road in Europe - Take 2
    by hjanssen on October 29, 2008

    Wednesday - Day two for my IPC in Mainz conference, which is a developer orientated PHP conference . Very well attended. The most negative thing I can say about this conference is that for some unknown (but brilliant beyond my level of comprehension)... more

    • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    Windows 7 and much, much more
    by Peter Galli on October 28, 2008

    There was lots of news announced at PDC here in Los Angeles on Tuesday. From the first public demo of Windows 7, to how Microsoft is extending Office to the browser, to the release of the Silverlight Toolkit, and much, much more. Rather than bore you... more

    • Tuesday, October 28, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Open Government Collaboratives
    by Bryan Kirschner on October 28, 2008

    The city of Matsue, Japan is using Ruby to promote regional economic development . One of the unexpected highlights of the recent GOSCON , was a gentleman from Matsue coming up to me after I had given my talk about open source and Microsoft and saying... more

    • Tuesday, October 28, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    On the Road in Europe - Take 1
    by hjanssen on October 28, 2008

    Today is Tuesday - That must mean I am in Mainz. I am on day 12 of my European trip. I was in Rome and Amsterdam last week. In Rome I attended the Moodle conference , which was pretty cool. It was put on by Roma Tre and was one of many destinations in... more

    • Tuesday, October 28, 2008
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    Developers, developers, developers...
    by Peter Galli on October 27, 2008

    It's all about developers, all the time - well, at least for the next week here in Los Angeles at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. The first day of the show started off with an opening keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who welcomed... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Live ID to support OpenID
    by Peter Galli on October 27, 2008

    More good news coming out of PDC today! Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts
    by Sam Ramji on October 27, 2008

    Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Interoperability
    by Peter Galli on October 24, 2008

    Getting external feedback is always a good thing, and something that Microsoft has been trying to do a lot more of, particularly with regard to its focus on openness and interoperability with various open source communities. So it was with great interest... more

    • Friday, October 24, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Open Messaging
    by Sam Ramji on October 24, 2008

    We've been working with a range of open source projects in the last few years, and each one has taught us something - both what to do more of, and what to change. One of the things we've learned in listening to very specific customer needs, is that there... more

    • Friday, October 24, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Microsoft at AJAXWorld
    by Peter Galli on October 20, 2008

    The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo got underway in San Jose today, under the broad theme of "Rich Web Technologies for Enterprise Web 2.0 & Social Web." Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, delivered the keynote address today, while... more

    • Monday, October 20, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    An interview with Codeplex's Sara Ford
    by Sam Ramji on October 16, 2008

    It has been a month or so since the Codeplex announcement of server support for SVNBridge , which enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server, and the team is looking for feedback now this has been out for a while. I also recently interviewed... more

    • Thursday, October 16, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    GOSCON 2008
    by Bryan Kirschner on October 14, 2008

    Last year, we sponsored GOSON 2007 , the Government Open Source Conference, and we're sponsoring it again this year. I will also be presenting a keynote address on how Microsoft participates in a world of choice. I'm personally also excited that Brian... more

    • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Powerset team resumes HBase contributions
    by Bryan Kirschner on October 14, 2008

    It is just two months since Microsoft finalized the acquisition of Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset's goals are to "change the way humans interact with computers through language "- improving search by indexing... more

    • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    New Beginnings
    by Peter Galli on October 13, 2008

    When I began reporting on Microsoft for eWeek (part of the Ziff Davis Enterprise stable of publications) in 2000, I never imagined that I would one day end up working for the software giant. And, to be quite honest, for the longest time I really did not... more

    • Monday, October 13, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Next Steps
    by jcannon on October 10, 2008

    When I began my journey with technology, it was with a passion for the web. Living off a friend’s T1 line, I was hacking together HTML when Mosaic was the only show in town. I’m returning to that love of the web next week where I’ll be moving to a new... more

    • Friday, October 10, 2008
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
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