Archives
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Another Contract Ends - Hanging Out the Shingle
My current contract at Intuit is ending in a few weeks. I'm heading into a possible slow period so it's a good time to catch the blog up a little. If nothing else but to remind myself what I've been doing through this year since leaving Notion Solutions.
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Life as an Independent Consultant
It’s been almost a month since I left Notion Solutions to embark on a new adventure of driving an independent consulting company. Chris Menegay was the greatest to work with at Notion, so I truly appreciate what I learned and gave back to them. With the new gig it’s not all easy. There are some ups and downs that have been a challenge. The hardest parts have been expensive insurance policies, a formal payroll, and becoming a registered Microsoft partner for an upcoming product. With all of that behind us, it’s just work, work, work.
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Azure Details and Limitations - Blobs, Tables, and Queues
The Dallas Azure User Group will be meeting tomorrow at the Microsoft offices in Irving for our second meeting. I'm teamed up with Mike Holdorf and Rob Vettor to discuss Azure storage, namely Blobs, Tables, and Queues. The listing below is the document that I put together to hand out at the meeting with the "Details and Limitations". This should help us in our application designs as we move some of our systems to the cloud. These details are from the current SDK help file.
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Azure Services Labs – Blobs, Queues, and Tables
Woohoo!!! The Azure Services Training Kit was updated this week. Well, maybe it's not that exciting because it means more work or "fun" training. It all depends on whether the sun is shining and I can ride the Goldwing. It's overcast and very windy so I'm "enjoying" the Azure Services Training Kit Labs. I walked through some of the labs this weekend, primarily the Blobs, Table, and Queue labs to better prepare for our Dallas Azure User Group talk on the 18th of this month. Mike Holdorf, Rob Vettor, and I are teaming up to present the topic of Azure Storage. It should be noted that the labs use the very useful SDK wrapper to abstract all of the REST complexities. So if you want to learn everything about Azure REST calls and how to handle retries and storage details, peek into the SDK example classes. In most cases, people just want to get the job done so these high level labs are very useful.
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Notion Tools for Team System
The company that I work for, Notion Solutions, has just announced a suite of extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Here is an excerpt from the website:
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If I Ran Microsoft
I saw the "If I Ran Microsoft" video online today. It mentioned the public image for Microsoft and the great things that they do. The video showed the "We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend". It was a big deal for those charities that now have a great system to do their charity work with. I'm so glad that I had a part in it this year.
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Windows Azure Resources
I compiled these Azure Platform Services related resources and distributed them to the Cloud Computing User Group in Dallas on 01/21/2009.
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Cloud Computing User Group – Dallas Meeting #1
It feels great to get back in action like when I was always running the Dallas C# SIG. Now I'm helping Mike Holdorf and Rob Vettor run the CCUG in Dallas. The first meeting is finally here (tomorrow). This invite says it all.
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We Are Microsoft 2009 - Done and Done Great
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We are Microsoft - This Weekend
"We are Microsoft" is this weekend!!! This event is all about giving a helping hand using our special talents to build solutions for non-profit organizations. If there's more team work than that, please let me know.
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Managed Extensibility Framework - Very Impressive
For those who haven’t heard of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), a CodePlex project, there is a good episode of .NetRocks with Glen Block to explain it.
