I just wanted to make you aware of the meetings planned for the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group for the next 4 months. These are some great topics and speakers that you're not going to want to miss.
April 8, 2010
Dynamics CRM Online
Presented by Shikhar Agarwal, Sogeti
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May 13, 2010
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Added by Adam Grocholski on March 10, 2010 at 9:24pm —
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Added by Bob Maclean on March 10, 2010 at 9:11pm —
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I'm pleased to announce that
TekPub has become a sponsor of the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group. TekPub co-founder,
James Avery, has given me a stack of 15 and 30 day subscription coupon…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on March 10, 2010 at 8:44pm —
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As you're hopefully aware, the main purpose of this group is to help expose people in the Twin Cities to cloud computing technologies. For the past 9 months or so we've been trying to do this by hosting monthly meetings as well as special events at the local Microsoft office in Bloomington. However, I know that you have busy lives. Between work, family, and other obligations it can be difficult to carve out a couple of hours each month on a particular day and time to get to the Microsoft offi
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Added by Adam Grocholski on February 17, 2010 at 10:50am —
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I'm pleased to announce that Cerebrata has become a sponsor of the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group. Cerebrata's founder, Gaurav Mantri, has given me 12 licenses to Cloud Storage Studio to give away at our upcoming meetings over the next year. Here's some information about Cerebrata:
Cerebrata is a software product development company based out of India developing products for Web 2.0 platform using latest technologies. Cerebrata
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Added by Adam Grocholski on February 17, 2010 at 9:12am —
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On January 4th, 2010 Azure Platform benefits were added for MSDN Premium Subscribers. However, the process for claiming those benefits has confused some. I've written a short article on how to claim those benefits and get back to developing in the cloud.
http://bstineman.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!61AEA8168D26EA6B!1150.entry
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Added by Brent Stineman on January 13, 2010 at 5:45am —
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As you're aware I've been working in conjuction with
RBA Consulting and
Microsoft to put together and event on December 8th entitled
Backstage Pass: A Day in the Microsoft CLOUD. We've got some great speakers lined up, like Jack Calhoun, along with some great giveaways, including a Zune HD. Howeve…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 19, 2009 at 1:43pm —
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There were a couple of
Microsoft releases last week that provided updates to
Windows Azure tooling that I wanted to make you aware of in case you hadn't see the news.
First Microsoft released the November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. This is an important release on the
SQL Azure front because SSMS…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 16, 2009 at 1:29pm —
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{I've been meaning to post a quick entry on this, but I've been swamped with other tasks the past couple of weeks.}
On October 25th,
Microsoft released the
Windows Azure Service Management
PowerShell cmdlets. These cmdlets allow you to script out and deploy, upgrade, and scale y…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 15, 2009 at 9:22pm —
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Last night at the
Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group we officially kicked off
Project Thor. We had some great discussions about the project is, why we're doing it, and what we hope to accomplish. At the end of the meeting a total of 12 people volunteered to help deliver Project Thor.
However, we don't want to limit participation in the proje…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 13, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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In my last
post in this
series I did two things. First I showed you a prototype version of the mobile piece of project Thor. Second, I told that my next post would include architectural/design documents. Well, I changed my mind a bit. Before we can really discuss design, I wanted to be able to give you a way to play around w…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 10, 2009 at 9:24pm —
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In the first three parts of this
series I laid out the problem statement, assumptions, business requirements, and technical requirements. In this post I want to demo the functionality we're trying to achieve. Check out the screencast below (brought to you by
Silverlight and the
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 9, 2009 at 9:03am —
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In
Part 1 of this
series I described the problem we're trying to solve with Project Thor. In
Part 2 I walked through the assumptions and business requirements. In this part I'm simply going to lay out the technincal requirements. So, witho…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 5, 2009 at 8:34pm —
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In
Part 1 of this
series I described the problem we're trying to solve with Project Thor. In this part I'll go through the assumptions and business requirements.
Assumptions
- Users will have a smart phone capable of supporting the Microsoft Tag Applet
- Users will have an active internet connection to t
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 4, 2009 at 1:23pm —
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As I announced yesterday, the
November meeting of the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group will serve as the kickoff meeting for a community based project designed to give people experience developing a meaningful cloud based application. My goal in the days leading up to the meeting is to provide a background on the project, so, when the meeting rolls around, everyone will be on the same page with what we're trying t…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 3, 2009 at 8:32pm —
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When is the next event.
I would like to attend.
Thanks.
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Added by Luke Milanovich on October 30, 2009 at 11:06am —
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Hello all TCCloud members.
My name is David Williams and I'm a Strategy Advisor with Microsoft with a focus on Cloud Computing.
My role works across verticals where we partner with clients to drive business innovation with emerging technology and bring it to market through digital marketing campaign strategies.
You can reach me at:
David.i.Williams@microsoft.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DavidIWilliams
Blog: www.tomorrowfromtoday.wordpress.com
Looking forward to meeting all of you!
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Added by David Williams on October 1, 2009 at 2:43pm —
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This is a repost from my personal blog at
http://bstineman.spaces.live.com
The August meeting was rescheduled to accommodate a special guest speaker. David Chappell, of David Chappell and Associates. David is a native of Minnesota and was in town on vacation with his family. He graciously agreed to take time out of his schedule to come and speak with the 30 or so of us that were assembled. I never had the opportunity to see David present before. I…
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Added by Brent Stineman on September 20, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Starting September 8th, 2009, the following Live Services will be unavailable:
*Live Framework CTP (Services, SDK & Tools)
*Contacts Control (JavaScript)
*CTP Tools/ASP.NET Controls
As alternatives use:
*The UI Controls from Messenger Web Toolkit for Contacts and Messenger Chat
*The Windows Live ID Web Authentication Service to replace the IDLoginStatus Control
If you are a Live Framework technology preview user, Microsoft is asking you to please download any data and/or code from the ser…
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Added by Adam Grocholski on August 24, 2009 at 8:38am —
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If you haven't checked these out, they are worth a look. Some good videos on MSDN for the Azure platform.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx Continue
Added by Bob Maclean on August 21, 2009 at 8:22am —
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