Just sweetening the pot for the conference on June 22:
9:30a -10:30a Workshop: Platform as a Service, Windows Azure for Beginners
Presented by Microsoft’s Bruno Terkaly
Billions of mobile devices are connecting to the web and the way customers shop, work, and play is dramatically forcing IT to adapt… Social networking and commerce are now part of the IT challenge, as consumers and businesses struggle to move most commerce and shopping activities from a laptop to a mobile device…How will IT be ready to scale in a securely and responsively?.. In my session I plan to illustrate how easy and natural it is to embrace Platform as a Service technologies, such as Windows Azure. I plan to illustrate that you can take existing, on-premise data and existing, on-premise web services and migrate them to the cloud using familiar tooling. You will learn that all of your skills with Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio are still there and can take you to the next level. Join me for an action packed hour and find out how you can be ready for the huge changes in IT.
10:00a – 11:00a Workshop: Cloud9 IDE, Code Anywhere, Anytime
Presented by ajax.org’s Matt Pardee
During the workshop I’ll go over Cloud9 IDE, an IDE that exists entirely in the browser, the basics of NodeJS, its module format, Node Package Manager (NPM) and how to use a couple of the awesome modules built by the NodeJS community to create a multiplayer game in the browser. The game I will build during the workshop is a multiplayer version of Mario Kart.
10:30a – 11:30a Workshop: Platform as a Service, Windows Azure Advanced
Presented by Microsoft’s Bruno Terkaly
The AppFabric Service Bus is key to integration in Windows Azure. The AppFabric Service Bus is extremely powerful way to connect systems and content outside the firewalls of companies, unifying it with internal, often legacy systems’ data. The AppFabric facilitates transmitting content to any device, anywhere in the world, at any time.
