Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure

September 3, 2010 //

Tags: Azure, Cloud Computing, development environment, instances, Join, Ryan, security resources, show, SQL, SQL Server, Steve, synchronization, Windows, Windows Azure

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Listen as we discuss the benefits and patterns of routing in Windows Azure.
Learn how to route to stateful instances within your Windows Azure services.
Watch us demo a simple router for ’sticky’ HTTP sessions.

Show Links:

Ag.AzureDevelopmentStorageProxy
SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization using Sync Framework 2.1
Umbraco CMS on Windows Azure
Getting Started with the Windows Azure CDN
Security Resources for Windows Azure
Executing Native Code in Windows Azure and the Development Environment

Countdown to TechEd Europe: A Piece of the Berlin Wall

September 3, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: aka, countdown show, delegates, Microsoft, non profits, pass, Paul Iddon, story, TallPaul, tech ed, TechEd, TEE10

Congratulations to TallPaul (aka Paul Iddon) for winning the free pass! We appreciated his story about working for non-profits which has never allowed him to attend a large training conference such as TechEd. But don’t fret, keep watching the Countdown show as there will be more opportunities to win! In the remaining minutes we have another member of the TechEd team join us as we share stories about our planning process, including the importance of yummy food at the event, and how we plan for delegates that will attend from over 60+ countries. http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/

Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight applications

September 3, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: blog, Inside-Windows-Phone, jaime rodriguez, Oren, Oren Nachman, performance, performance paper, performance team, Phone, shane, Shane Guillet, Silverlight, Windows, Windows Phone

Shane Guillet, the test lead for Silverlight on Windows Phone, joins Jaime Rodriguez for some hands-on tips and tricks and advise for those wanting to create fast Silverlight applications for Windows Phone.

Relevant links:
Shane’s performance paper and samples
Silverlight performance team’s blog
Oren Nachman blog
[Oren is a Silverlight performance tester in Shane's team and Shane might be sharing tips via that blog until we convince him to get his own]

Inside Windows Phone #02: The beta release and the roadmap to RTM

September 3, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: beta release, Darin, developer portal, glidepath, Inside-Windows-Phone, jaime rodriguez, manager, Phone, Program, Windows, Windows Phone

Peter Torr, program manager for Windows Phone platform, and Darin Miller, program manager for the Windows Phone Tools, join Jaime Rodriguez to discuss the Windows Phone beta release and its glidepath to RTM.

Relevant links:
Windows Phone Beta Download
Windows Phone Training Kit
Windows Phone Developer Portal

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This video is belated. We are releasing because it shows our thrive to bring an insider’s scoop. You won’t find Darin talking about tools release mgmt at a conference (where we cover APIs or features) but we have the best tools and best platforms, and we want to connect you to the guys building these.
We also want to be transparent about our own mishaps. We are learning and did RTM on-time :).
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Testing Chromium

September 3, 2010 //

Posted in:googletechtalks

Tags: amp, best practices, Chromium, google, James Hawkins, talk, Tech, Testing

Testing Chromium

Google Tech Talk July 28, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by James Hawkins. The Chromium project has 200+ committers and over 100 commits a day. That pace of development requires extensive testing in order to achieve acceptable stability. In this talk, I'll go over the best practices for testing in Chromium.

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On the Design of Bayes Consistent Loss Functions for Classification

September 3, 2010 //

Posted in:googletechtalks

Tags: Bayes, california san diego, Classification, computational tractability, design, Loss, negative margins, Risk, risk minimization, San Diego, visual computing lab

On the Design of Bayes Consistent Loss Functions for Classification

Google Tech Talk July 30, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi. The machine learning problem of classifier design is studied from the perspective of probability elicitation, in statistics. This shows that the standard approach of proceeding from the specification of a loss, to the minimization of conditional risk is overly restrictive. It is shown that a better alternative is to start from the specification of a functional form for the minimum conditional risk, and derive the loss function. This has various consequences of practical interest, such as showing that 1) the widely adopted practice of relying on convex loss functions is unnecessary, and 2) many new losses can be derived for classification problems. These points are illustrated by the derivation of novel losses which are not convex, but do not compromise the computational tractability of classifier design, and are robust to the contamination of data with outliers. It is argued that such robustness requires loss functions that penalize both large positive and negative margins. Also, the connection between risk minimization and probability elicitation is extended to the cost sensitive setting in a manner that guarantees consistency with the cost-sensitive Bayes risk, and associated Bayes decision rule and a new procedure for learning cost- sensitive classifiers is proposed. Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi is a PhD student in the Statistical Visual Computing Lab at the University of California, San Diego. He <b>…</b>

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Worlds Upon Worlds: An Illustrated Talk by Toby Lester

September 2, 2010 //

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Tags: America, Atlantic, Chris Anderson, continents and oceans, Editor, history of cartography, important firsts, Lester, library of congress, map, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, part, talk, Toby Lester, Toby Lester Google, world

Worlds Upon Worlds: An Illustrated Talk by Toby Lester

Google Tech Talk August 23, 2010 ABSTRACT Toby Lester — a longtime editor and writer for The Atlantic, and the author of The Fourth Part of the World (2009) — will be here to talk about what may well be the greatest map ever made: the Waldseemüller world map of 1507. A giant wall map recently purchased by the Library of Congress for the astonishing sum of $10 million, the map's main claim to fame is that it gave America its name. But the map also represents a number of other important firsts in the history of cartography, and in the larger history of ideas. It was the first map to show the New World surrounded by water, and thus to suggest the existence of the Pacific Ocean; it was one of the very first maps to lay out a picture of the world in a full 360 degrees of longitude; and it was the first map to present the contours of the world's continents and oceans largely as we know them today. It was, in many ways, the mother of all modern world maps — and yet, mysteriously, it was made years before Europeans first saw the Pacific or circumnavigated the globe. With the help of a weird and wonderful variety of early maps and diagrams, Lester will show how the Waldseemüller map for the first time brought together elements of many different ancient and medieval cartographic traditions and used them to create a map not only of space but also time — a map that Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, after reading about it in The Fourth Part of the World, described as "a <b>…</b>

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Inside Windows Phone #01: Introducing the show

September 2, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: Developer, external guests, Inside-Windows-Phone, insiders guide, interviewees, Jaime, Phone, program managers, show, Windows, Windows Phone

Jaime Rodriguez and Yochay Kiriaty, your Inside Windows Phone show hosts, briefly introduce the show’s single goal: To share the insiders’ guide into Windows Phone development.

We will have interviews with the developers, designers, and program managers building the Windows Phone OS, developer platform and applications.
We will also have external guests that are doing cool stuff with Windows Phone..

If you have suggestions for topics or interviewees, drop us a comment..

Relevant links:
Windows Phone Developer site
Windows Phone Training Kit

Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application

September 2, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: Animation, Blend-4, jaime rodriguez, John, John Papa, keyframes, Papa, Silveright, Silverlight 4, Storyboards, Twitter, Web, Windows, Windows Phone

On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations.

Relevant links:

John’s blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)

Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book’s web site.

Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1

September 2, 2010 //

Posted in:Channel 9

Tags: C9 Lectures, DPEDK, FSharp, functional programming concepts, language, lecture, lecture plan, part, Peter, Peter-Sestoft, programming language concepts, Sestoft, university of copenhagen, university of copenhagen denmark

Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1

By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

In this first part, Peter introduces the curriculum, lecture plan and lecture notes for the course “Programs as data” that uses the functional programming concepts in F# to teach students language concepts and implementation details.

Peter also begins on the first lecture (continued in the second part, found here:http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/martinesmann/Teaching-programming-language-concepts-with-F-part-2/).

Peter Sestoft at ITU.dk: http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft

Lecture notes and other downloads: http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2010/