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Azure@home Part 7: Asynchronous Table Storage Pagination
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/05/2010
New England Code Camp 14 - October 2nd
If, by chance, you’ve managed to miss the thirteen previous incarnations of the progenitor of Code...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/28/2010
Microsoft Sponsoring Providence WordPress Meetup
If you’re in the Providence area, come check out the Providence WordPress Meetup this Tuesday, at 6...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/26/2010
Windows Azure Companion: PHP and WordPress in Azure
Update July 13, 2011 “The Windows Azure Companion was an experimental tool to provide a simple...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/19/2010
New PDC 2010 Workshops Announced
PDC 2010 is being held on October 28 and 29th at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. It is sold...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/17/2010
Windows Phone Developer Launch (Oct 12-13) in Cambridge
You may have heard that today the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools are...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/16/2010
IE9 Beta Available: Experience the Beauty of the Web
IE9’s beta release just went live - moving our next iteration of the web browser experience one step...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/15/2010
Dallas on PHP (via WebMatrix)
Frequent readers know that I’ve been jazzed about Microsoft Codename “Dallas” ever since it was...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/06/2010
Azure@home Part 6: Synchronous Table Storage Pagination
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/02/2010
DrupalCamp Connecticut 2010
Thanks to Peter Dowling, Nancy Flowers-Mangs, Dr. Mark Friedman, and Tom Sullivan, the organizers of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/29/2010
Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition!
It was great to see so many engaged folks at the Windows Phone 7 Firestarter (and Garage) in Waltham...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/26/2010
Fall Code Camps
Update!!! The site to submit abstracts and register for the New England Code Camp was just...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/18/2010
Azure@home Part 5: The REST of the Story
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/18/2010
Azure@home Part 4: WebRole Implementation (redux)
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/11/2010
Firestarter Events Coming Your Way!
As the summer begins to wind down, we’re gearing up for several series of events focused on the core...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/08/2010
Azure@home Part 3: Azure Storage
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/05/2010
Introducing Microsoft® VisualStudio® LightSwitch™
This morning at VSLive! 2010 in Redmond, Microsoft announced a new developer offering: Microsoft...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/03/2010
SharePoint Saturday Returns to Waltham
A third edition of SharePoint Saturday returns to the Microsoft Office in Waltham on Saturday,...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/26/2010
Azure@home Part 2: WebRole Implementation
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/23/2010
Azure@home Part 1: Application architecture
This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/19/2010
@home with Windows Azure: Behind the Scenes
As over a thousand of you know (because you signed up for our Webcast series during May and June),...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/16/2010
PDC 2010 to be held in Redmond
Just announced yesterday – the 2010 edition of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/13/2010
“Time to get serious” about Windows Phone 7
The Beta version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools, first unveiled as a CTP at MIX10, were...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/12/2010
Introducing: Windows Azure Platform Appliance
Sure Windows Phone 7 is cool, and given its holiday release, it was at the top of my Christmas list…...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/12/2010
Windows Phone 7 and XNA Webcast
Most of the developer news regarding Windows Phone 7 has been focused on Silverlight, which is...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/07/2010
Azure Storage Updates
This has been an eventful week in terms of cloud storage, with two significant announcements from...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/01/2010
IE9 Platform Preview 3
Back in March at Mix10, Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager of the Internet Explorer team,...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 06/23/2010
New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome"
Lives were changed this weekend. Whitney Potsus, non-profit representative...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 06/21/2010
Wow, what's with the new look?
As you might be able to tell, my blog has had a rather radical transformation. There's good news and...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/24/2010
Boston Business Intellligence Camp - Session Schedule
The first Boston Business Intelligence Camp will held this Saturday from 8:30 to about 3:30 at the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/20/2010
Mobility Experts Panel - May 26th
Check the tech headlines over the last couple of weeks: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Moves Toward...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/19/2010
New Hampshire Code Camp - June 5th
With all of the recent announcements from Microsoft – Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, Silverlight...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/17/2010
New England GiveCamp - Come Code for Charity
New England GiveCamp (June 11 – 13) is a project I’ve been working on with a number of community...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/16/2010
The Launch Rolls On – Northeast Roadshow and More
Thanks to all of those who turned out for the Visual Studio 2010 launch event in Boston on...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/01/2010
Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months working with and talking about Windows Azure to a...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/24/2010
Rock-and-Bowl For Local Schools
Want to have some fun? wear fashionable shoes? show off your Rock Band mojo? and help out some local...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/24/2010
Cavalcade of Camps: Launch and Learn – May 15th
Day 5 of camp-mania brings you yet another free training event, this one focused on getting your...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/23/2010
Cavalcade of Camps: .toolbox Event - May 14
My announcements of upcoming free, developer (or in this case designer) camps continues with a...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/22/2010
Cavalcade of Camps: Hartford Code Camp – June 19
As I mentioned on Monday, I’m spending this school vacation week overviewing the numerous Code Camp...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/21/2010
Cavalcade of Camps: Business Intelligence Camp – May 22
As promised, here’s the second in a string of “camps for your head” coming your way in May and June....
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/20/2010
Cavalcade of Camps: New Hampshire Code Camp, June 5th
If you have kids, you know this is about the time you start looking at the various camp options...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/19/2010
Congratulations To Imagine Cup Finalists
Imagine Cup is an annual student technology competition begun in 2002 in which teams of high school...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/14/2010
Fire Up Your Azure Skills – May 8th
Heard a lot about Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, but just overwhelmed by it...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/13/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Launches Far and Wide
“the waiting is the hardest part” – Tom Petty Vegas Well, wait no longer, Visual Studio...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/12/2010
RIT Inn, Rochester New York
Room Venue RIT Inn and Conference Center Address 5257 West Henrietta RoadWest Henrietta, NY 14586...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/09/2010
Silverlight and Blend – Perfect Together
As a Developer Evangelist (emphasis on the Developer) I’m the first to attest to my lack of design...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 04/06/2010
On the Road with Bing (Maps) – April 7th
This really looks like fun! The Bing Maps Platform Team is hosting a free event at the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/30/2010
Try Azure, Win a Laptop (Thru Wednesday)
This past week, Chris and I finished up our Northeast Roadshow series in Farmington, CT, where we...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/28/2010
Win with WebsiteSpark – April 1st (No foolin’)
Microsoft and its hosting partner, Navisite, are sponsoring a free event on April 1st at Microsoft’s...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 03/21/2010