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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
Joining Intuit

Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pursuit for the next adventure - I have really appreciated everyone's support and interest in my next steps. The great news is I'll be joining Intuit as a Group...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2008
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
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings

Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. But I can see the slide deck discussing the Twitter...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-01-2008
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
What I'm reading...

There are a whole bunch of interesting posts / stuff I find on the net that I bookmark on del.icio.us (at least, I think they are interesting). Over the years I've been experimenting with different ways of sharing these with you. My most recent solution has been to include my del.icio.us links within...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-21-2008
8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms

To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008
Playing with Zoho DB

Via Read/WriteWeb , I heard of Zoho DB this morning. Am playing around and I like it. I've uploaded my LibraryThing book catalog into a new Zoho DB and can publish one of the views I've defined as an embedded view into this blog post, providing some basic interaction - see below. Within Zoho, I can create...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-03-2007
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2

Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation of Astoria here , providing some sample read-only...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-03-2007
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007

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