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Cloud Storage by David Platt

Bob Familiar — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:09:50 GMT

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This third lecture covers all the various cloud storage potions, what is provided by the top cloud vendors and then uses Windows Azure to demonstrate the non-relational storage options blobs, tables and queues.

Cloud Application Architecture Patterns by David Platt

Bob Familiar — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:49:30 GMT

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This second lecture introduces distributed computing concepts and a set of application architecture patterns that are popular with cloud based solutions. David then uses a Windows Azure based applications that demonstrates these patterns.

Introduction to Cloud Computing by David Platt

Bob Familiar — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:31:47 GMT

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background, definitions of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service and details the commercial offerings from the top cloud vendors. He concludes the lecture with a demonstration of how to get started with cloud development using Windows Azure.

PopFly Goes to College

Bob Familiar — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:49:54 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Professor Mark Frydenberg of Bentley College of Massachusetts. Professor Frydenberg has created a course that leverages PopFly to teach software architecture and development to his business major students.

Professor Frydenberg's unique approach allows students to grasp complex distributed computing concepts, build and share sophisticated mashups while working with information (photos, news, music) that is relevant to them.

Choosing the Right LINQ Model for Your Application

Bob Familiar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:19:59 GMT

Bill Zack presents an Architect Point of View (arcPOV) presentation on selecting the right LINQ model for your application. Bill covers 3 different flavors of LINQ; LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Datasets, and LINQ to Entities. Bill discusses how these flavors of LINQ can be used to access data in relational databases. He then covers the differences and the trade-offs involved in choosing between them.