ALT.NET Seattle Meet This weekend I attended the ALT.NET meet up. For more information on future meet ups check out these resources: http://www.altnetseattle.org/ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111345965570 http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?pli=1 We covered some great topics around not using IoC (Justin, where were ya!?), REST and what it really is, and lots of things around WCF. We all adjourned briefly for... Continue reading →

This is the beginning of a series of blog posts I’m putting together on building out a website on Amazon’s Web Services. This is a quick start on where to find the .NET SDK, what templates are installed in Visual Studio 2010, and what you get when starting a new Web Application Project with the... Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago on the Amazon Web Services Blog I experienced a stick up. I shot off a comment about how cool it would be to see some of the AWS Stickers in the wild as one of the comment writers wrote. Jeff Barr, one of the AWS Evangelists, sent me some stickers via... Continue reading →

My Thoughts on This… I’m stoked that Amazon keeps releasing bigger and better bits. It appears Microsoft and Amazon are going to quietly go tit for tat on cloud features. For consumers of the cloud that’s awesome, anyone understanding basic economics knows that this is going to lead to bigger, better, faster, at a much... Continue reading →

Here’s a shocking statement for a lot of people in technology and especially outside of technology. “Your money is at greater risk because it isn’t in a cloud.” Here’s another shocker “Your medical information is at greater risk at your on-premises Doctor than if it were stored and protected by access control in the cloud.”... Continue reading →