Entries tagged with teched2007 - Channel 9

Tom Raftery: On Blogging, Green Computing and other interesting topics

Charles — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:12:43 GMT

Tom Raftery is blogger, podcaster and social media consultant.

Tom consults to companies on social media (blogs, podcasts, wikis, etc) and how to use them for knowledge management, brand management, communications, etc. Tom is a director of a startup data centre in Cork - Cork Internet eXchange (cix.ie). CIX will open doors for business in January 08. Tom is also involved in an energy management startup called Synergy Module (synergymodule.com).

Here we talk about green computing, blogging and other interesting topics. Enjoy.

Niners on 9: Littleguru, Zeus and JasonOlson

Charles — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:37:59 GMT

Who are the people behind the C9 handles and avatars? Why did they join Channel 9? What do they do on Channel 9? What do they like and dislike about C9?

These are some of the questions that I got a chance ask at TechED 2007 Developer where I ran into a few Niners attending the event in Barcelona. We talked a bit about V4 and their favorite features in V3 (that will also be in V4). The dev team is working really, really hard to build a high quality next version of C9 that does not reuse any of the current code base, yet maintains the current featureset. It's a very hard problem, but our great dev team (Duncan Mackenzie, Erik Porter, Mike Sampson, David Shadle and Grace Francisco) are making great progress!

Tune in. Meet Zeus and Kate Gregory and VC++ team members Ale Contenti and Steve Teixeira for a conversation in the TechED Fish Bowl. Not surprisingly, the topic we focused on was VC++ 2008, the future of VC++ and Microsoft's commitment to innovating and evolving this powerful unmanaged platform in the context of it being an unmanaged platform (as opposed to concentrating on how C++ can interop with and, in some sense compete with, managed code, etc).

We thought it would be wise to get an external C++ expert together with Microsoft C++ People to chat about what's new, where the platform is heading, the position and relevance of C++ in an increasingly managed world and other fun topics to capture a customer's feedback on camera (no where to hide, MS product people! :)).

Kate, who is a C++ MVP and fantastic speaker (her C++ sessions always rank highly among attendees) provides real world context and perspective with regard to what C++ developers want and need. The product team people, like Ale and Steve, are of course listening and acting on the feedback from C++ developers like Kate who target Windows primarily, if not entirely, in an unmanaged context.

As always, it was a pleasure to chat with Kate, Ale and Steve.

If you are a C++ developer (or interested in the future of VC++), then this interview is for you!

Enjoy,
C

Don Syme: What's new in F# - Asynchronous Workflows (and welcome to the .NET family!)

Charles — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:56:34 GMT

I was lucky enough to catch up with Don Syme at TechED Developer 2007. I'm a big fan of F# and it's great to see that a product team is being formed to bring this powerful functional language into the official .NET family. Joining in this conversation are F# master Robert Pickering and a special guest, Tomas Petricek, who's done some amazing things with F# recently.

Here, we talk about, well, F# :) Specifically, we address what F# joining the .NET family means, what state the project is in, delve into concurrent programming and parallelism topics and look into (and at) the latest F# features that make it easier to exploit multi-core hardware. Don even does some demos on his laptop that show off some cool new async features of F# (async workflows) and hint to the future of the language.

It's always great to chat with Don. Tune in.

Enjoy.

Service Oriented Architecture, Software as a Service, Software + Services, Enterprise Service Bus, I

Charles — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:45:32 GMT

At TechED 2007 Developer, I was lucky enough to get to spend some time in the Virtual TechED Fishbowl with Connected Systems team members Steve Swartz and Clemens Vasters and professional speaker/author David Chappell.

Steve, David and Clemens are a great trio to get together for heady conversation. For one thing, Steve and Clemens are experts in the area of digital communication software machinery (things like Internet Service Bus, Enterprise Service Bus, WCF, Software + Services, etc, you know "connected systems" and the underlying componentry that make it possible for distributed software systems(that are often unrelated in terms of platform technology) to communicate effectively and efficiently).

David has some great perspectives on many aspects of technology and he's regarded as one of the best technical speakers around. So, who better to get together than these three stars to dig into the notion of software services and finally explain what the hell "Software + Services" means and how it relates to Internet/Enterprise Service Bus, WCF, SOA (David provides a great definition for SOA in this interview), REST, etc. Is there really one definition for "service"? If not, why not? Service sures seems to be an overloaded terminology...

Tune in. Learn.