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Adam Grocholski Content From the June Meeting

Content from yesterday's presentation from Brent Stineman is now available. You can watch a recording of the meeting below:


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If you prefer to download the video and/or slide deck for offline viewing here are the links you need:


Presentation Recording: wmv

Slide Deck: pptx |

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Added by Adam Grocholski on June 11, 2010 at 8:33pm — No Comments

Jeffrey E. Moeller Is TCCCUG up to the challenge?

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Added by Jeffrey E. Moeller on May 28, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Adam Grocholski We're Going Live...

I'm pleased to announce that starting with our June meeting we'll be making all meetings available via LiveMeeting. You'll be able to attend the meeting either in person, through LiveMeeting, or you'll be able to download the content to watch at a time that fits your schedule.

Below are the LiveMeeting details for our June meeting:

When: Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 3:00 PM (CDT)
Scheduled to Occur: Once

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Added by Adam Grocholski on May 20, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Announcing the Twin Cities Microsoft CLOUD SUMMIT 2010

On behalf of Microsoft, invites you to attend...
The Twin Cities Microsoft CLOUD
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Added by Adam Grocholski on May 5, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Content from February's Meeting

At the meeting this past week a couple of people asked me for content from February's meeting. During that meeting I demoed what has come to be known as Project Thor. The source code for the project along with documentation (which is still being written) can be found on the project's website. Currently the project is hosted on CodePlex and can be found here: http://thor.codeplex.com.

If you have questions or ideas for the Thor feel free to

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Added by Adam Grocholski on March 13, 2010 at 11:45pm — No Comments

Bob Maclean March 2010 TC CCUG Meeting Recap

Thanks to everyone in attendance this month. We had a great turnout for the March TCCCUG meeting. A special thanks goes to David Williams (Strategy Advisor for Microsoft) who led us in a great discusson on various cloud computing models and their impacts on organizations.

Here are a few links to David's work....enjoy!

http://tomorrowfromtoday.wordpress.com/

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Added by Bob Maclean on March 12, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Upcoming Cloud Computing Events

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 Register here May 13, 2010 Cu… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on March 10, 2010 at 9:24pm — No Comments

Bob Maclean Interesting video on Windows Azure Lessons Learned. Check it out here...

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/Windows-Azure-Lessons-Learned-RiskMetrics/

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Added by Bob Maclean on March 10, 2010 at 9:11pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Welcome TekPub!

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on March 10, 2010 at 8:44pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Live Meeting Anyone?

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 — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Welcome Cerebrata!

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 — No Comments

Brent Stineman Claiming MSDN Subscriber Azure Benefits

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 Continue

Added by Brent Stineman on January 13, 2010 at 5:45am — No Comments

Adam Grocholski What's a Backstage Pass Without a Great Band?

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 19, 2009 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Azure Tooling Update - November 2009

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 16, 2009 at 1:29pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Azure PowerShell Cmdlets

{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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 15, 2009 at 9:22pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Project Thor - It’s Not Too Late To Get Involved

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 13, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Project Thor Part 5: Prototype

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 10, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Project Thor Part 4: Demo!!

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 Simple Silverlight M… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 9, 2009 at 9:03am — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Project Thor Part 3: Technical Requirements

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… Continue

Added by Adam Grocholski on November 5, 2009 at 8:34pm — No Comments

Adam Grocholski Project Thor Part 2: Assumptions and Business Requirements

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
  1. Users will have a smart phone capable of supporting the Microsoft Tag Applet
  2. Users will have an active internet connection to t
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Added by Adam Grocholski on November 4, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

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