April San Diego Azure User Group Meeing – April 9

The meeting information is here http://www.azureusergroup.com/events/san-diego-cloud-computing-user-2 

1. Azure Update
Summarize and discuss recent announcements
Change of direction for SQL Data Services
Overview of Windows Azure March CTP released at MIX
Full-trust support
Fast CGI support
2. Full Trust Support
Implication - you can now access .NET libraries you couldn't previously.
Demo: Azure Perf Counters and real-time application monitoring
Demo: hosted native code sample
3. FastCGI Support
Demo - FastCGI (existing demo, SDK sample)
Pizza and drinks are served 6 pm to 6:30 pm. The session will start at 6:30 pm.
Please, register via http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=137155 to help us to plan for attendance

SoCalCodeCamp Fullerton, Jan 2009 Post Mortem

My part as a speaker in SoCalCodeCamp (www.socalcodecamp.com) is over. I did 2 talks: Application Life-Cycle Management; Why Should You Care and VSTS/TFS 2010: Things You Need To Know.

The first talk was the introduction to the APIO by Microsoft and how ALM can benefit the unified vision of development, operations and project management towards solving the business problems. The talk was very successful although I was surprised - I was expecting more resistance from the audience. The reaction was very encouraging. See the slide deck here

The second talk was more of the overview of the VSTS/TFS VPC CTP1 focused on the testing, modeling and team foundation. The slide deck was easier, bet getting the decent performance from the VPC image was very difficult. Eventually I had to cut the number and the content of the demos and resort back to the slide deck and the screen shots. Somewhat disappointing, but hopefully will fix the performance for the internal Neudesic training sessions. The slide deck is here.