Azure: The Overview
Jeff Blankenburg
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

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Codemash 2009
January 8 & 9

63 sessions…including:
Introducing Agile for Real World Programmers
A Programmer’s Guide To User Experience
Three Tips To Improve Your Dev Process
Introducing the iPhone SDK
Modern Web Applications in .NET
Introduction to the Live Mesh SDK

Day 0 Precompiler
Full Day Language Tutorials
.NET 101 with Josh Holmes and Jeff Blankenburg
Figure out how to get your feet wet in the .NET framework, C#, Visual Basic, WPF, Silverlight
and more.
Java, Groovy, and Grails 101 with Chris Judd and Jim Shingler
Two Java experts walk you through the basics of Java, its newest dynamic language
(Groovy), and the shiniest web framework (Grails.)
Ruby 101 with Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien
Yeah, does it get any better? Go learn Ruby from two masters of it.

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Half Day Workshops
Turning the Ship with Dave Donaldson.
Spend time in a highly interactive session with Dave as he discusses practical lessons learned
on changing processes, mindsets, and culture to steer a company onto a more
agile, productive path.
Kanban 101 with Dave Laribee.
What's Kanban? How's it different from other Agile implementations? Learn about a not-so-
new approach to managing projects that will help you boost your team's productivity and
speed to delivery.
iPhone Development with Chris Adamson
Learn Objective-C and the iPhone's SDK from a noted author and expert.
Fundamentals of Test Driven Development.
Sit down and walk through the basics of TDD with Leon Gersing and Phil Japikse. Leon will do
one session, Phil the other. This hits the basics of TDD and is hands on with two of the most
passionate advocates of TDD around. Learn TDD, evolve your critical thinking.
Value Stream Mapping Workshop with Mary Poppendieck
Learn how to use Value Stream Mapping to pinpoint opportunities for improvement in your
software development process.

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All Day CodeJam
Instructors: Gary Bernhardt, Sarah Dutkiewicz, Joe Fiorini, Corey Haines, John
Stockton
Come in and spend all or part of your day cranking out code in a room full of
Wicked Smart People. We'll have a server application built and hosted on either a
VPC or networked server. You can spend your time cranking out a front end to the
app, you can extend the app's functionality, or you can just say \"This sucks and I'm
rebuilding it from scratch and I'm gonna do it right!\" You can work in your own
environment, or better yet, do the CodeMash thing and jump off into a new
environment. We'll have a number of VPCs set up with all the major development
environments. Concerned that you want to jump into a new environment, but
won't know how to get started? We'll have experts wandering around the room
just waiting to help you out. Why not sit down with someone working in a
different environment and pair up with them?

Enough about that…
Today is about S + S

Software + Services
Platform

Windows Azure

Azure Services Platform
™

Using Visual Studio is
like wearing glasses.
It helps you C#.

VB, or not VB?
There is no question.

Scaling issues

.NET Framework Evolution

Interoperability
Azure Services Platform
™

•Access Control
•Federated Identity
•Flexible, Standards Based Service
•Lightweight, Developer Friendly

•Service Bus
•Lowers Barriers to Building Composite Applications
•Secure Design

•Workflow Service
•Scalable, Lightweight Service Orchestration
•Integrates with Other Services
•Leverages Existing Skills

Live Services

DATA
PEOPLE
DEVICES
APPLICATIONS

Jeff Blankenburg
jeffrey.blankenburg@microsoft.com
http://www.jeffblankenburg.info
http://www.jeffblankenburg.com
twitter - @jblankenburg