I just unsubscribed from a bunch of email services I somehow got hooked into. When I clicked on the unsubscribe link for one of them, it opens a browser and shows me this awesome message:   You have chosen to disable new book notifications. You will receive an email confirmation shortly.  ...

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Last night I had the privilege of presenting the Entity Framework v1 to the Tampa .NET User Group at the Microsoft offices. I had just been up there for a half day of Silverlight 2 2 weeks ago and I have been overwhelmed by the great participation of this group. The people really get into the presentations...

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I’ll be heading up to Tampa tomorrow to present “Developing Applications with the Entity Framework” at the Tampa Bay .NET Users Group on November 6th at 6:30pm, sponsored by INETA . The location for the event is: Microsoft Gulf States Office 5426 Bay Center Drive Suite 700 Tampa, Fl 33609 There was an...

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I took some raw notes from the PDC keynote today, during Scott Gu’s presentation that I thought I would share. Enjoy: Reviewed some of the Windows 7 highlights .NET 3.5 SP 1 improvements Graphical improvements Start up performance of .NET code WPF improvements, including graphics and performance .NET...

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I recently signed on with www.InsideRIA.com to write a guest blog. In my first post I wrote about my excitement at how the Silverlight 2 community has become so interested in it . While its a small community relative to the entire .NET community I have seen a great impact in a very short time (considering...

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Announced at PDC 2008 today, quick overview diagram showing the services included in Azure . Azure SDK available today at noon PST ....

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Here are some random and early notes from the first half of the PDC’s keynote this morning, mostly about Azure. Windows Azure Cloud service operating system Part of the new cloud computing services platform (Azure Services Platform) New blog for Cloud Computing Will include Live Services, SQL Services...

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  BlueHoo Deploying and connecting with Azure services Download available today around noon PST at http://m.bluehoo.com Interesting logos :) bluehoo blue guys are connected, gray ones are visible but not on bluehoo yet....

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In an article yesterday, Engadget labeled Silverlight as an also ran. The article is about how Netflix has announced it will use Silverlight to stream movies to the Mac . Very cool indeed.  just got a kick out of this line from the article: In a move that seemed like it would never, ever, ever happen...

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There is a fresh new look to the .NET logo. Its got a little bit of Silverlight -iness and retains the Visual Studio logo similarities. Overall it is a nice new look....

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