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Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 21) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – HDInsight Service

Jim O'Neil, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:15 GMT

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Abstract:
In this episode of Practical Azure Jim O’Neil gives us an overview of Windows Azure HDInsight – the Apache Hadoop implementation hosted on Azure. Tune in as he covers the basics of HDInsight and how it correlates with the pillars of Big Data - Volume, Variety and Velocity – and then demos for us how to get started using Azure HDInsight.

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If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Videos:

Virtual Labs:

MSDN Virtual Labs: Windows Azure

DevExpress Controls for XAML Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox

Robert Green — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:37:39 GMT

In part 3 of a 4 part series on control vendors, Robert is joined at TechEd in New Orleans by Seth Juarez of DevExpress. Seth shows us some of the many XAML controls DevExpress provides for XAML development, both in WPF and Windows 8.

Things. M2M. IoT - Connecting Special Purpose Devices to and through the Cloud

ClemensV — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:32:21 GMT

"Internet of Things" is one of the hot catchphrases of the industry these days. It's about connecting special-purpose devices (laundry machines, dishwashers, toasters, locomotives, trucks, factory robots, etc.) directly or indirectly to the Internet. As things go, several commercial customers have nudged us in the direction of taking a good, long look at this space and we're already actively helping several of them to deal with the particular scale challenges of needing to connect tens of thousands or more devices concurrently and with bi-directional information exchange.

This is the first in a series of episodes I'll do on the IoT/M2M subject area here on "Subscribe!" and in this first one, I'm introducing the problem space, talk about patterns, and am talking about the connectivity options and challenges around devices, specifically also discussing VPN.

Introducing Four New Creative Experiences on Socl!

Laura Foy — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:34:56 GMT

Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs unveiled today four new create experiences on Socl (http://www.so.cl/), MSR's unique social network committed to the expression of ideas through visually rich posts that are easy to create, collect, comment on, and share. If you haven't already created an account, no better time to jump on the Socl bandwagon!

The new create experiences include BLINK, Collage, Picotale and Video Party and will allow people to experiment with the future of social experiences, expressed through collages, videos, memes and dynamic media. Socl's four create experiences will continue to expand over time, enabling the Socl community to reimagine researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives.

The team is especially excited to partner with MSR's Interactive Visual Media Group to offer a way for users to share their BLINKs. BLINK apps (BLINK and BLINK Cliplets) are also available today on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices. As part of the Socl create experience, BLINK is blurring the borders between video and photography, and BLINK and BLINK Cliplets provide ways to capture, create and share live personal moments via short, dynamic media. Both BLINK apps are free from the respective Windows Store.

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Luke Hoban: TypeScript 0.9 - Generics and More

Charles — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:55:00 GMT

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us again for a conversation about TypeScript. What have they learned since TypeScript first became available in preview form? How are folks using it? What's the feedback been?

Today, we're pleased to announce the arrival of TypeScript version 0.9. This pre-release version includes a very important feature (and one near and dear to Anders' heart): generics. Very cool! How does generics work in TypeScript? What was the most challenging aspect of implementing generics in TypeScript? What else is in 0.9 (hint: plenty!)?

As usual, this is a conversation. We cover a fair amount of ground and take turns into interesting rabbit holes when they present themselves. It's always great to talk with Anders, Steve and Luke; great folks.

Learn more here:

TypeScript Team blog
Soma's blog

Defrag Tools: #44 - WPT - DiskIO Analysis | Defrag Tools

Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:44:54 GMT

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.

Resources:
Defrag Tools: #23 - Windows 8 SDK
Defrag Tools: #29 - WinDbg - ETW Logging
Windows Performance Analysis Developer Center
Windows Performance Toolkit
Channel 9 Videos
NTDebugging Blog Article
PFE Blog Series

Timeline:
[00:30] - xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+DISK_IO+DISK_IO_INIT -stackwalk DiskReadInit+DiskWriteInit+DiskFlushInit
[02:00] - WPA
[03:22] - System Configuration
[04:30] - Disk Queue Length - need to use xPerfView
[06:32] - Disk Controllers, Disk Drives and RAID
[11:08] - * The 2nd thing is AHCI which does I/O reordering (forgot to mention it)
[15:45] - xPerfView - Disk I/O "Detail Graph"
[18:30] - WPA - IO Time & Disk Service Time
[22:45] - xPerfView - Disk Queue Length
[25:00] - Summary

Example: "xperf - Collect DiskIO.cmd"

@echo off
echo Press a key when ready to start...
pause

echo .
echo ...Capturing...
echo .

xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+DISK_IO+DISK_IO_INIT -stackwalk DiskReadInit+DiskWriteInit+DiskFlushInit -BufferSize 1024 -MinBuffers 256 -MaxBuffers 256 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular

echo Press a key when you want to stop...
pause
echo .
echo ...Stopping...
echo .

xperf -stop -d diskio.etl

Hot Apps: NBA Jam, Contre Jour, SynthPling!, AppBundle, Talking Tom Cat | Hot Apps

Laura Foy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:42:27 GMT

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone . In this episode Laura takes a look at:

Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

Telerik Controls for XAML Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox

Robert Green — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:39:24 GMT

In part 2 of a 4 part series on control vendors, Robert is joined at TechEd in New Orleans by Phil Japikse of Telerik. Phil shows us some of the many XAML controls Telerik provides for XAML development, both in WPF and Windows 8.

TUIO to touch device to Windows 8 - TouchProxy lets you reach out and...

Greg Duncan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Today's project comes to us via Robert of frog design (Yes, that frog design). When his email came in (You all know you can email us your cool and fun projects right? If there's code, is in the Microsoft sphere an does something cool, fun, interesting or different, drop us a line about it, ch9@microsoft.com) I thought it a good fit for the C4F blog. Why? Here's a snip from the email;

"...CodePlex project I just published called TouchProxy (touchproxy.codeplex.com). It's a Windows 8 touch injection client I wrote using TUIO, OSC, TouchInjection API, WPF/XAML, etc. I originally hacked it together for myself as a tool for testing multitouch gestures on Windows 8 running on a standard-issue laptop (no touch screen hardware) using available TUIO client apps for iPhone and Android. I spent a little time refining it by adding in edge calibration (to help pick up screen edge gestures in Windows 8) and integrated Wi-Fi hosting. I have Windows Phone and Windows RT/8 TUIO tracker apps in the works to complement TouchProxy and match the existing iOS and Android apps available. Those should be released..."

You had me at "hacked it together for myself..." and "codeplex".

TouchProxy (for Windows 8)

A remote touch injection client for Windows 8 using standard TUIO+OSC protocols, variable input calibration, and integrated hosted Wi-Fi networking for devices.
Features
Works with any standard TUIO tracker app or service as a remote multitouch input panel. Apps are currently available for:
iOS
Android
Windows Phone (coming soon from frog eXPeriMeNTaL)
Windows RT (coming soon from frog eXPeriMeNTaL)
Windows 8 (coming soon from frog eXPeriMeNTaL)
Many other platforms and environments
Uses the native TouchInjection API for Windows 8 as a proxy for multitouch input hardware
Provides integrated hosted Wi-Fi networking services using the native WlanHostedNetwork API for faster performance between devices or when a local shared network is unavailable
Offers direct and indirect contact modes for both manipulation and/or presentation overlay
Provides detailed calibration of touch inputs to compensate for differences in remote hardware input panels (i.e.: variations in smartphone bezels, digitizer boundaries, etc.)
Allows targeting of primary or virtual display bounds for touch interaction across single or multiple screen resolutions and layouts
Emulates the Windows key and hardware button events using the native Keyboard Input API with configurable touch patterns
Uses updated TUIO and OSC protocol libraries optimized for .NET 4.5 and offers full diagnostic tracing of inbound message streams
from Vimeo.

(Note the Kinect in the background? I knew I liked Robert for a reason...

Here's a snap of the Solution;

So if you have a Windows 8 device, but one without touch support, yet have another device that does, I think you might find this project interesting...

TWC9: TechEd++, VS/TFS 2013, C4F Toolkit 2.0.6, Azure Updates and more | This Week On Channel 9

Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:13 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back and discuss the week's top developer news, including;

Picks of the Week!

Brian's Pick of the Week:[12:18] Flexible Source Control with Team Foundation Service and Git (Martin Woodward)
Dan's Pick of the Week:[13:44] Brain-controlled aircraft Students control a helicopter in flight using only brain waves (Richard Boyhan)

Crypto Primer: Understanding Encryption, Certificates, Public/Private Key & Digital Signatures

Planky — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:03:55 GMT

If you Bing (or Google!) "Crypto Primer", an article I wrote on my blog some time ago will come back as the first result. It seems to have been a very popular read and is linked from all over the Internet. From the email I've received about it, I think people have always been vaguely curious about what goes on under the covers when they use certain security APIs, or have to set up certificates in a specific order and that blog post explains it.

Well, now I've created a video; a "cartoon" if you will, of the blog post which explains crypto in animated form. You should walk away with a good understanding of how public/private key works and why things like digital signatures, certificates, hashing, CAs, PKI and so on end up as part of the crypto conversation. Maybe if you find it very intriguing, you might want to watch it then read the article at your own pace.

Hope you enjoy the video.

Introduction to Windows Server 2012 R2 | TechEd North America 2013

Jeff Woolsey — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:23:00 GMT

You heard the announcement, now get the details on the upcoming release of Windows Server. We go over enhancements and new capabilities in Networking, Storage, Hyper-V, PowerShell and availability - making it easier than ever for customers to truly embrace the cloud with Windows Server.

Transform the Datacenter with Server and Management Innovations from Microsoft | TechEd North America 2013

Jeffrey Snover, Jeff Woolsey — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:47:00 GMT

Cloud computing models are changing the technology landscape and providing more opportunity than ever for IT to deliver impact to the business. This Foundational Session will dive into the new Microsoft datacenter technologies and demonstrate how you can be the best provider of technology for your organization. Learn how Windows Server, System Center, Windows Azure, and other new technologies work together to help you provision and manage cloud and datacenter infrastructure, provide business continuity, deliver services, and manage applications. This includes breakthrough capabilities in the areas of storage, networking, virtualization, management, and automation. You will also learn how the latest innovations bring together on-premises approaches and cloud-based technologies to deliver hybrid cloud solutions leveraging your existing resources.

Keynote Presentation | TechEd North America 2013

Brad Anderson — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:00 GMT

Despite sea changes in cloud computing, device proliferation, and the explosion of data, IT pros and developers still live for one simple thing: to deliver amazing experiences for their customers and end-users. In this keynote, Brad Anderson will unveil a broad set of new capabilities across the full suite of Microsoft Cloud OS products and technologies designed with that simple end goal in mind. Together with enterprise-optimized enhancements to the Windows 8 client, the advances that Brad will showcase in this keynote significantly advance Microsoft’s long-term effort to give you the most advanced and comprehensive set of services, products, and technologies in the industry. Learn how Windows 8 is ready for business, how Windows Azure is changing hybrid and private cloud computing, and how the world of modern application development is evolving. It’s time to embrace the challenges of a world full of risks and opportunities. See what Microsoft is delivering next, including new enterprise enhancements in the upcoming Windows 8.1 update, and learn what it means for your business as well as your career.

Live Demonstration: Hacker Tools You Should Know and Worry About | TechEd North America 2013

Marcus Murray, Hasain Alshakarti — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:09:00 GMT

When we investigate cybercrime we often find traces of commonly known hacker tools, trojans, etc. In this highly interactive demo session, we show you the hacking tools of today, the damage they can do, and how you can recognize them when they are used to attack your infrastructure. This is an extremely valuable and important session for anybody interested in protecting their own IT environment.

Keynote: Scott Guthrie | Windows AzureConf 2013

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:22:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie kicks off the Windows Azure Conf by presenting an overview of Windows Azure. Scott will demonstrate how to build a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites, mobile applications, and multi-tier cloud services.

Deep dive: Tips & tricks for porting games from other platforms to Windows 8 | Building Windows Games with Unity

Randy Spong — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:58:00 GMT

Go deep under the hood of Unity for Windows Store apps. After this session you will understand how the engine works, and the changes you will need to make to port a Unity game to run on the Windows Store app model.