Boston Azure Firestarter a Success!
We had 60-something folks attend the Boston Azure Firestarter (more photos) on May 8, 2010 in Cambridge, MA. This event provided both talks about important Azure concepts and hands-on-roll-up-your-sleeves-and-write-some-code Labs. Yes, attendees brought laptops! Feedback was positive. Many thanks to all the folks who helped make this event possible. This was a Boston Azure cloud computing user group event, supported by and hosted at Microsoft.
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Many Thanks!
Those who helped prepare for the event, work the sign-in desk, help with technical problems, and handle the pair-programmer matching service included Nazik Huq, Chander Khanna, Joan Linskey, and Maura Wilder. Jim O’Neil and Chris Bowen (our East Coast Microsoft Developer Evangelists) were also on hand for trouble-shooting and general support and help.
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Here was our speaker lineup:
- David Aiken from Microsoft’s Windows Azure team came from the left-coast in Redmond to the right-coast in Boston to keynote the event. David gave many demos, a couple of which were My Azure Storage and his new URL shortening service hmbl.me. Image may be NSFW.
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David’s keynote was followed by: - Bill Wilder: Roles and Queues talk + lab (http://hmbl.me/1OHBMZ) Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. - Ben Day: Azure Storage + lab
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Clik here to view. - Andy Novick: SQL Azure + lab (http://hmbl.me/1H46PK) Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. - Jim O’Neil: Dallas and OData (http://hmbl.me/1OHC5W) Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. - Panel Q&A (in the order shown in photo below): Mark Eisenberg (Microsoft), Bill Wilder, Ben Day, Jason Haley, and Jim O’Neil
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After hours, a smaller group unwound at the sports bar over at the Marriott. This included Jim O’Neil, Maura Wilder, Joan Linskey, Bill Wilder, Sri from New Jersey, (okay, other names are vague!) …
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