Nuno Filipe Godinho

Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal – Introduction to Silverlight 4.0

  During TechDays 2010 in Portugal I did a session about “Introduction to Silverlight 4.0”, that was really a level 200 session, which means that we were doing a lot of Intro to the New features of Silverlight 4.0, and having a clear insight about what we can do, and who is currently using it and with which results.

   So the session was based on the following:

• Introduction to Silverlight
  • Here we talked a little bit about the history of Silverlight, in terms of what it can do, where it works, how it works, and how it is growing.
• Customer Stories
  • Media
    • Some Silverlight Media Stories were presented like:
      • nbcsports.msnbc.com (NFL Sunday Night Football)
      • Roland Garros 2009 Tennis Tournment
      • NBCOlympics
      • NetFlix
    • For Portuguese examples we saw:
      • MyWay
      • Record Zoom
  • Business Applications
    • Some LOB Stories
      • National Instruments – Lab View
      • Zignals
      • SnapFlow
      • Continental Airways Call Center Application
      • K2 Blackpoint
      • Siemens Medical – Syngo Dynamics
    • For Portuguese examples we talked about:
      • ViaTecla
      • Primavera
  • RIA
    • Some RIA Stories
      • MGM Stargate G1
      • eBay Sidebar
      • HardRock Memorabilia
      • Bondi – Digital Archive Publishing
      • Perfect Car Finder
      • Career Builder
    • For Portuguese examples we saw:
      • OceanLook
  • Digital Marketing
    • Some Digital Marketing Stories
      • Tata Nano
      • NY Mag
    • For Portuguese examples we saw:
      • Plural Portugal
      • Rodrigo Leão
• Silverlight 4.0 specific features
  • Analysis in the following areas
    • Media
    • Rich Experiences
    • Business Applications
    • Beyond the Browser
    • Developer Tools

  You can find this presentation here and on SlideShare:

I would enjoy very much to ear your thoughts about this presentation.

Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal – “Workflow Services and Windows Server AppFabric – How they work great together”

   So in TechDays 2010 Portugal I did a session about “Workflow Services and Windows Server AppFabric – How they work great together”. Basically this session was sliced in the following parts:

• Introduction
  • What are the Workflow Services?
  • What is Windows Server AppFabric?
• How to achieve Coordination Of Work
• How to achieve Message Correlation
• How to do Monitoring with Windows Server AppFabric
• How to do Persistence with Windows Server AppFabric
• In terms of Farm Availability, How does AppFabric helps

   So these were the several topics of my presentation that can be found here.

Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal – My Sessions Overall feedback

  So TechDays 2010 Portugal already ended and it was a very interesting 3 day Event. In terms of Contents I would say that it was one of the best I’ve ever been, and so I think that tells it all.

  In this years event I did several talks, in several different areas of expertise and I got some very positive feedback and also some very helpful feedback, that I’ll take into account in my next presentations.

  So in order to maintain the Sessions running, even though the event already ended I’ll post my materials here and would like to ear more comments from you, as well as answer all your questions, and do some more deep dive into the session contents and also the areas we talked about.

  So here’s a list of my TechDays 2010 Portugal talks:

• “Workflow Services and Windows Server AppFabric – How they work great together”
• “Scale your Data-tier with Windows Server AppFabric Caching”
• “Event Driven Architecture: When, Why and How?”
• “Introduction to Silverlight 4.0”
• “Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework”
• “WCF RIA Services – Deep-Dive”
• “Entity Framework 4.0 and Beyond”

  I hope you find this several Sessions interesting.