Top Developer Technologies with Windows Server 2008 R2

Published June 16th, 2010 Under Architecture | Leave a Comment

Explore the latest Windows Server release via a quick-paced demo-oriented survey of features with a focus on performance, Web, management, and other server solution scenarios. Learn about developing applications for “many-core” scale, using efficient “trigger-started” services, integrate solutions with the File Classification Infrastructure, and designing Web Platform extensions.


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Is Microsoft Going Agile? Insights from Scott Guthrie

Published January 22nd, 2010 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Scott Guthrie discusses Microsoft’s relationship with Agile. Learn what Microsoft is doing to enable developers to adopt an agile strategy.

Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java, Ruby and PHP

Published October 30th, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment

Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. In this video you will learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to develop using combinations of Java, Ruby and PHP in addition to the standard Microsoft languages, and how Microsoft’s commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform and the use of claims-based identity supports heterogeneous identity systems.


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A chat with Sara Ford – CodePlex turns 3, reaches 10,000 projects

Published September 16th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s open source forge CodePlex has just turned 3 years old and passed the auspicious milestone of 10,000 active projects (actually 11,025 at time of filming). We thought this would be a good time to sit down with Sara Ford – Agile Program Manager for CodePlex – and recap on the past three years, CodePlex’s current feature set and what’s in store for the future.


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Scott Hanselman on Scaling Websites with Caching

Published August 28th, 2009 Under Architecture | Leave a Comment

Architecting an enterprise or web application for high performance, scale, and availability can be a challenge without an appropriate caching strategy. One approach is to leverage a distributed caching platform to support the needs of performance, scale, and availability. In this ARCast episode, Scott Hanselman and Joe Shirey discuss Microsoft’s codename “Velocity” project and how it supports building out these types of applications as well as what architects and developers need to think about when implementing a distributed caching approach.


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