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Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with Jean Paoli’s team at Microsoft to create an application that runs across multiple cloud vendors. Jean’s team has been working on a number of SDKs for PHP and Java, and I wanted to create a sample that demonstrated all of them working together. The result is [...]
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If you’ve been following the recent developments on Windows Azure, you are probably aware that the July CTP of Windows Azure introduced support for FastCGI. One of the benefits of supporting FastCGI is the ability to run PHP applications in the Azure fabric. If you are a developer using the Eclipse IDE, this month marks [...]
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One of the conferences that I regularly look forward to is PDC. This year will be the first in a move to an annual format, as traditionally it has only been every two years. If you are on the fence about going, it looks like there is only one more day to register (to qualify [...]
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Brad beat me to blogging this, but he, Arturo, Adam, and I will be traveling to Europe at the end of the month to deliver several sessions across numerous web developer, designer, and architect conferences throughout Europe. My schedule takes me to the following places: Tuesday 22nd September (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Presenting “Patterns for Cloud Computing” [...]
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Over the past few months I’ve been working with many customers and internal groups to try and determine whether there is a common set of patterns for cloud computing. As you’ve probably read, many people are claiming to do cloud computing, so my goal has been to explore the types of applications that people are [...]
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Just before heading home from TechEd 2009 in LA, I recorded a couple of online interviews, which are now available: Patterns for Moving to the Cloud: Recorded with Denny Boynton, host of ARCast, we chat about where applications live, and what applications make sense for the cloud. We also cover a set of patterns that [...]
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Today is my last day at TechEd 2009 in LA, and as promised, I’ve uploaded the presentations from the three talks that I’ve given this week. Thanks again to everyone that attended my talks, and I really enjoyed speaking with many of you after the presentations. PRC02 – Demystifying the Cloud This is the presentation [...]
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I recently put together this article for InfoQ on using SketchFlow to create better prototypes. In case you haven’t run across it yet, SketchFlow is a feature of Microsoft Expression 3, announced during the MIX09 conference in March this year. In this article I cover the importance of prototyping (I’ve often said that we don’t [...]
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I wanted to share the details of two cloud computing sessions that I will be presenting at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles next month: ISB204: The Impact of the Cloud and Software as a Service – 5/11/2009 4:30PM-5:45PM ARC308: Patterns for Moving to the Cloud – 5/12/2009 8:30AM-9:45AM The first session (ISB204) is part of [...]
Continue Reading →I recently found out that I will be speaking at JavaOne again this year! I’ll be participating on a quick-fire demo panel called Cloud Computing: Show Me the Money! together with Gregor Hohpe from Google, Raghavan Srinivas from Intuit and others from SFDC and other vendors in the cloud space. JavaOne is one of my [...]
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