Technology
We've waited a good long while, but RTM is finally here for both the ADO.NET Entity Framework as well as ADO.NET Data Services! Both are now available as part of the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (tools and runtime) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (for just the runtime without tools) releases that were announced this morning. You can check out more information as well as the downloads at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data (keep checking back as I will continue updating content all week to reflect the releases) and...
This morning at ZendCon, Bill Staples announced the upcoming availability of the first CTP of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The PHP Driver will deliver an API designed-to-enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows platform. For more on the announcement, check out the http://blogs.msdn.com/data or www.microsoft.com/sql/php...
Today is a big day! Last May at Mix07, we announced Project Codename "Astoria", a project designed to "enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within corporate networks and across the Internet". Alongside Project Astoria, we also announced an experimental read only online service providing "RESTful" or "Astoria" access to a few sets of data including Northwind and AdventureWorks. Today we announce the ability to create your own hosted Astoria Data...
Today is the day! Today at Mix, my team is announcing two new incubation projects that we have been working on for the last few months. Both CTPs went live this morning and will be announced during our sessions beginning this afternoon. Project Codename "Astoria" is a technology designed to allow you to expose your data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. The data service is accessed by URIs via HTTP (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE)...
If you've had a chance to browse through the session listing for Mix 07 (next week in Las Vegas), you're probably getting pretty excited to hear what some of these sessions are really going to say. If you haven't had a chance to look, or you just want to find out more... check out the latest set of podcasts on Channel 9, giving a sneak peak of some the topics this year at Mix...
Again it's been way too long since I've posted. So a quick update: I started my new job at Microsoft on July 27th and I've been traveling ever since. I was very fortunate to be able to attend the World Wide Partner Conference in Minneapolis and MGB in Atlanta (As well as MS101 in between). I have now officially relocated to Redmond Washington... and my household goods have finally arrived (it only took the movers 4 1/2 weeks), although everything is still in boxes. So, what am I doing at Microsoft?...
My “not so new years” resolution: Post more often on my blog. It's been way too long since I've been on here, but on the brighter side I'm almost finished school. I've spent the last few weeks browsing company web sites and trying to find companies that I am interested in applying to. Yesturday I recieved an email from the Victoria .NET Users Group about a Microsoft Certification Study Group that is about to start up. It sounded like a great idea, so, in an effort to increase my employability...
Looks much better than the first attempt... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id
I found this on the Business 2.0 website (http://www.business2.com/b... God's Ink-Jet VISION: A device that builds human organs and tissues from scratch. WHY: The originals wear out. VISIONARY: Thomas Boland, 38. DAY JOB: Assistant professor of bioengineering at Clemson University. BREAKTHROUGH: Boland has modified surplus ink-jet printers to squirt out a "bio ink" of cells, growth factors, and degradable gel to form three-dimensional tubes of living tissue. The...