Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow[more ]

Congratulations to TallPaul (aka Paul Iddon) for winning the free pass!  We appreciated his story about working for non-profits which has never allowed him to attend a large training conference such as TechEd.   But don’t fret, keep watching the Countdown show as there will be more opportunities to win!  In the remaining minutes we have another member of the TechEd team join us as we share stories about our planning process, including the importance of yummy food at the event, and how we plan for delegates that will attend from over 60+ countries.  http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/

Shane Guillet, the test lead for Silverlight on Windows Phone, joins Jaime Rodriguez for some hands-on tips and tricks and advice for those wanting to create fast Silverlight applications for Windows Phone. [more ]

On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations.[more ]

Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1

By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.[more ]

I stopped by the hardware team to take a first look at the new Arc Touch Mouse, and shot this short video. The Touch folds flat, to about the same size as an HTC Touch phone. Where the old Arc Mouse fit well in a front pocket, the Arc Touch will do well in a back pocket. The folding portion of the mouse has 90 articulated pieces and snaps to a very solid feeling and natural arc. …[more ]

This week on Web Camps TV James Senior talks to Jonathan Carter about the new craze sweeping the world of services - OData - the new web protocol for querying and updating data. Jonathan describes how OData (short for Open Data protocol) is great for companies who are hosting services and allows developers to build cool apps on their API with zero ramp-up time because they are familiar with the standards-based approach.  We explore the way to consume a typical service OData service and the…[more ]

In this deep dive, Sean McKenna from Windows Phone and Greg Hodgal discuss how to program for Windows Phone 7 using the accelerometer.
An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration forces such as gravity or the forces caused by moving the sensor. All Windows Phones have at least one accelerometer sensor that, when accessed by the managed Accelerometer API, can be used to provide input to Windows Phone applications including both Silverlight for Windows Phone and XNA for Windows Phone applications.

In part 3 of the Advanced Functional Programming lecture series, Dr. Lämmel focuses on the domain of language interpretation as a method of understanding some important functional programming techniques. …[more ]