Windows Azure Camp at Trivandrum on 30th April

 

Microsoft is organizing the Windows Azure camps in various cities across India.

As part of it, K-MUG in association with Microsoft is conducting a day long event on Windows Azure at Thiruvananthapuram on April 30, 2011.

If you are interested in learning more about cloud computing and Microsoft's offerings for that environment, come and join me and my fellow speakers on 30th

Venue

Zenith Hall, UST Global, Bhavani,Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram

 

Agenda

• Cloud Computing and Azure Overview
• Azure Architecture
• Azure Management Portal
• Services and Tools Needed
• Create and debug Azure Application
• Deploy application in Azure
• Lunch Break
• Moving ASP.NET application to Azure
• Moving SQL Express database to Azure
• SQL Windows Azure App Fabric Cache

Speakers  

Amal Dev works as a Senior Software Engineer with Gemini Software Solutions, Technopark. An avid techie who constantly articles in his blog, http://inquisitive-instincts.blogspot.com/ .He has been working with .NET technologies since its inception and his area of interests include C#, ASP.NET, WP7, Silverlight.

Shiju Varghese, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, is a Technical Architect on the Microsoft .Net technology stack with a focus on web application development and Domain-Driven Design. He has been working with .Net Technologies since beta version. Shiju focuses on C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Windows Azure, REST, WCF and Unity. Shiju holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD: Web. He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/

   

Yanesh Tyagi is a technical architect with Millennium Consultants. He has extensive 16 years of experience working on different technologies, specially Microsoft Technologies. He has been with .NET since it's early days. Yanesh has worked in many domains inclusing BFSI, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, eCommerce etc. Yanesh is also involved in some open source projects.

                                                                                   

Internet Explorer 9 Beta - First Impressions

The much anticipated release of the IE 9 beta is out and didn't waste much time in installing it. The first thing caught my attention was the interface. Less congested design with less icons and more screen real estate.

Layout & Interface

 

IE 9 brings significant changes to its layout, the address bar, icons and the tabs now appear in a single row which there by increases the area for the content. Also Reload, Stop, Compatibility buttons appears next to the address bar and the Home, Favorite and Settings button now appear to the right of the screen. These icons are gray in color by default and changes the color when we hover mouse over them. The status bar is turned off by default and I found it bit annoying coz most of the users want to see the progress bar during the loading of a page. 

Another one catches the user attention will be the absence of the address box. This explains why they integrated Bing right into the address bar, so it works either as an address bar or a search bar and Microsoft termed it as "Private OneBox".