October 2008 Entries
Finally, details about Oslo are being made public..... For those of you who are not at PDC, here are some links you may want to check out: The Oslo dev center is now live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Cool new Oslo site from Connected Systems Div (see the cartoon “history of modeling” spoof video): http://modelsremixed.com/ This is a start. There will be a lot more in days/weeks/years to follow. Ladies and gentlemen of the dev community, fasten your seatbelts, you are about to...
The announcement has not gone out yet, but.... I will be doing an Oslo presentation on Tuesday at the main meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group. This is a bit impromptu, as it turned out I would be home the week of the meeting (somewhat a rarity as I have been home for one week out of eight), the meeting is on Tuesday, and on Monday Microsoft will start to talk about, and show, Oslo to the world. So, we looked at all those things and decided to modify the meeting. Thanks to Scott Reed of Developmentor...
We're now just a few short weeks away from PDC, which promises to yield a bumper crop of announcements. Aside from the Oslo/Dublin stuff that regular readers of my blog know I follow closely, there will also be cloud-related announcements. One thing I would expect is that Live Mesh will either get more features/capabilities, or that it may become part of something larger. Either way, I'm a big fan of the existing offering, and am eagerly waiting to see where this leads. Here's a few things I've done...
I'll be at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam next week, and am really excited about it. Amsterdam's a great place, I've been there a few times, and this is looking like it will be a really good event. I could do without yet-another trans-Atlantic flight, but, I'm getting pretty good at doing them. At the Symposium, I'll be doing: My first-ever public-facing Oslo presentation, and to the best of my knowledge the second-ever conference presentation on Oslo by a non-Microsoft person (my friend David Chappell...
As we head towards the PDC later this month, Microsoft today pre-announced some of the things you can expect to see there. To meet the evolving needs of service-oriented applications, Microsoft is extending the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding a set of capabilities, "Dublin", aimed at making it easier to deploy, manage and monitor WF/WCF applications. For developers creating WF-based solutions, this is great news, because it means you will get an enterprise-grade runtime environment to host...