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| Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| Coventry - A Grand Performance |
| Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| Hereford - Behavior driven development |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| Birmingham - Communicating with Silverlight |
| Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| Manchester - MonoTouch and MonoDroid! |
| Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| Southampton - Grand Designs! |
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Essential tools for Sql Server and .NET Professionals. Over 95,000 organizations and 200,000 users benefit from our simplicity, ingenuity, and transparent pricing. |
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| Mark Rendle
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Azure Table Service – getting creative with Microsoft’s NoSQL datastore |
Microsoft’s Azure Table Service provides a low-cost solution for storing and searching structured data in “The Cloud”. Plus, it’s one of these cool new NoSQL data stores that everyone’s talking about. But it’s very, very different from SQL Server and other relational databases, so is it the right solution for your project?
In this session we’ll look at how Azure Table Service works and how to use it. We’ll look briefly at the high-level Data Services SDK, talk about its limitations, and then quickly move on to the REST API and how to use it to improve performance and reduce costs. We’ll make-up some pretend real-world problems and solve them in new and interesting ways. Code will be written. We’ll denormalize data (for fun and profit). We’ll talk about how certain social networking sites can deal with huge volumes of data so quickly, and why it sometimes go wrong.
We’ll also cover some of the very useful features of relational databases that Azure Table Service doesn’t provide, and whether they can be reproduced in other ways. Acronyms such as ACID, BASE and CAP will be tossed around with gleeful abandon. And we’ll discuss the relative costs of Azure Storage Services (including Blob, Queue and Drive) compared to SQL Azure, and ways to appease the bean-counters.
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| Damian Powell
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Powershell for Developers |
| PowerShell’s primary purpose is to help Microsoft Sys Admins catch up with their Unix colleagues who have enjoyed good scripting environments for decades. But PowerShell has a great deal to offer developers too, especially in the current age of the polyglot, dynamic-language-hugging developer. This nugget will scratch the surface of some day-to-day uses of PowerShell from a developer’s point of view. At the very least, you’ll see a simple way of testing answers to StackOverflow questions that doesn’t require you to build ConsoleApplication84. |
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