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Connecting Clouds: Intuit Partner Platform and Windows Azure

How about I break my blogging “hiatus” by sharing some cool stuff the Intuit Partner Platform team has been working on for a little while that involves Windows Azure? OK, then… :-) This morning, Intuit and Microsoft have announced very cool news for Intuit and Microsoft developers and for Small Businesses...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-20-2010
How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)

Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)

As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-04-2008
ADO.NET Entity Framework video- 1 year later

Some old Data Programmability teammates of mine, Britt Johnston, Pablo Castro and Mike Pizzo (well, Mike's not that old), are interviewed by Charles Torre in this Channel 9 video to discuss their progress, challenges and customer feedback in the last year since announcing the first ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-30-2007
The Web Standards Fluster Cuck

Clucking bell, Molly Holzshlag really has kicked the web standards beehive with a blog post expressing her great discontent with the W3C and WaSP . Ridiculously Inadequate Backgrounder Now, before you head off and read the post and the 60+ comments, here's a bit of background on why I find this post...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-13-2007
Adobe on Apollo Compeitors

Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent Slingshot + magnetk , Yahoo! Widgets and Firefox...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-25-2007
Dr. Peter Chen - the ER Model and ADO.NET Entity Framework - Podcast

A couple of weeks ago Dr Peter Chen , inventor of the Entity-Relationship model (ER model), visited the Microsoft Campus to provide a lecture sharing his thoughts on the ADO.NET Entity Framework . As we were planning his visit, he was very keen to make sure that his views could be shared with a wider...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-20-2007
Q406 computer books sales

Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends. Here the highlights for me...The following...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2007
A Short History of the Evolution of Microsoft Data Access APIs

Earlier this year I read Joel Spolsky's 'Joel on Software' . It's a collection of his blog posts bundled up into a real-world book on topics ranging from tips on code development, to advice on managing programmers, to strategies on running a successful small software business. As an ex...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 12-05-2006
V1.0 of the IronPython project for .NET released

Scott Guthrie has announced the release of V1.0 of the IronPython project for .NET, available for download from CodePlex . Check out the screencast recorded by Jim Hugunin (lead architect for IronPython) and Jon Udell did to demo a bunch of the languages features. Jim has a great post describing the...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-06-2006

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