Author: Mr. Mike

My Notes: The Cloud as a Platform

Speaker: Jinesh Varia   Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technology Evangelist Lines are blurring between SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Lots of new innovative business models.  Pay as you go, One time upfront + pay as you go, Requested bid price and pay as you go, Standard and Reserved.   These work best respectively in the following environments: Spiky workloads, steady … Continue reading "My Notes: The Cloud as a Platform"

My Notes:Android Dev for .NET/C# Developers with Mono for Android

Session Speaker: Wally McClure (on intro slide said: aka: “.NET Judas”) Where we are at now: Laptops are not quite convenient Power management is important Wifi is not everywhere Multiple smart phone platforms iPhone has tremendous mind share/market share Android has seen tremendous growth RIM is dominant in the corporate market still WP7 has shipped .NET … Continue reading "My Notes:Android Dev for .NET/C# Developers with Mono for Android"

My Notes:Building Location Intel In Your WP7 Apps with Bing Maps

Session Speaker: Nickolas Landry Main focus is Interacting with location service.  Not a very popular session as only five people in this session. WP7 location services -Phone positioning via GPS, Assisted-GPS (cell towers) and WiFi Bing maps Web Services include: (REST & SOAP) Geocoding service Routing service Search service Geospatial Data storage options SQL Server 2008 SQL Azure Bing spatial … Continue reading "My Notes:Building Location Intel In Your WP7 Apps with Bing Maps"

My Notes:GPS for Android

Session speaker: Robert Machale Unfortunately Robert had trouble accessing his Google Docs account, so he did not have access to his slides.  Worst part was that he didn’t let the room know he was waiting to try and get on the network for the first 15 mins of the session.  After 15 mins, then finally mentioned … Continue reading "My Notes:GPS for Android"

My Notes: The Cloud Computing Paradigm – Transforming Business, Technology and Industry Keynote

Ric Telford, from IBM presented: A private cloud is not ‘the cloud’.  This is not true.    Cloud model can be embraced by everybody. Cloud is a delivery model for IT with these attributes: On demand self service Ubiquitous network access Location independent resource pooling Rapid elasticity A delivery model that allows developers to get to … Continue reading "My Notes: The Cloud Computing Paradigm – Transforming Business, Technology and Industry Keynote"

My Take Aways From ‘Which platforms Do You Bet On’ Panel Discussion

Speakers: Paul Thurrott, moderator; Jay (saurik) Freeman, Cydia; Tyler Lessard, RIM; Aaron Hillegass, Big Nerd Ranch, Robert Scoble; Romi Mahajan, Microsoft. This session was a free for all that jumped around quite a bit.  I liked the informality of the talk points as it felt more genuine to me in this format. Main take aways/talking points … Continue reading "My Take Aways From ‘Which platforms Do You Bet On’ Panel Discussion"

My notes from ‘Mobile Hardware Hacks’ session

Mike Riley (@MRiley)presented mainly on low cost micro controllers, specifically Arduino micro controllers. Arduino = most popular and cost-effective. Arduino (and all other micro controllers) needs Actuators (like motors) and sensors Ethernet shields allow for wired networking (TCP based networking) Xbee Radios (for wireless)  -not 802.X as they need lots of power Need a server … Continue reading "My notes from ‘Mobile Hardware Hacks’ session"

My notes from the Architecting Backend Systems for Mobile session

Speakers: Dan Burcaw  & Joe Pezzillo  (Push IO) – former Apple employees Their current application infrastructure supports iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 (and some other that they can’t discuss) Admitted Real time data… is their focus.  Might bias their info. SOAP is out!  Payload is just way to bloated. REST is in (with JSON)  -lightweight Parser Speed … Continue reading "My notes from the Architecting Backend Systems for Mobile session"