Anith Gopal

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Greetings! We’re looking for authors who are interested in putting together a book to educate developers on both the range of current Kinect development projects and to provide them with instructions and code on how to build such projects. If you have experience with the Microsoft Kinect API and are interested in authoring or co-authoring such a book, or if you know people involved in Kinect projects that you think would be good for inclusion in such a book and you can provide introductions, please respond to b-rujone@microsoft.com

Microsoft Research held an event on Microsoft Campus called TechFest, where various new projects and prototypes are showcased from their labs.  TechFest is an annual event that allows researchers from Microsoft Research’s locations around the world to Redmond to share their latest work with fellow Microsoft employees.  One of the most amazing projects showcased at TechFst was the Worldwide Telescope with KINECT.  This technology is like nothing you have seen before.  You can glide through the galaxy with the wave of your hand, zoom in to Saturn’s rings, look beyond our solar system to other galaxies.  Travel through both space and time, the entire universe is truly at your fingertips! Check out this article to watch the video that shows the demo of this awesome technology!  

In my previous post, I spoke about how Windows Azure supports the goal of a “Never Down” application. In this post, I will give the credit the specific module that allows for such goal to materialize: Introducing … drum roll … the Fabric Controller!   The fabric controller is an integral part of the Windows Azure platform

Sometimes Web standards can converge quickly . The W3C standard for Navigation Timing started about six months ago in the newly chartered Web Performance Working Group .

IE9 Release Candidate(RC) is here now.  Download it and give a try! If you want to know more about IE9 RC.  There are quite a few news and blogs already.  IEblog highlights the new HTML5 features to enhanced performance, and changes based on developers’ feedback. Short videos are very helpful to understand the new feature and changes. IE technology evangelist Giorgio Sardo talks about the top 5 features in IE9 RC.  Here are the top 5 from his blog: W3C Geo-location Standard is…( read more )

Juniper reports record Q4 and FY2010 results.

We are excited to see continued great reviews for Programming Windows® Identity Foundation , by Vittorio Bertocci (ISBN 9780735627185, 272 pages, September 2010).   Check out Vittorio’s recent blog post, Programming Windows Identity Foundation is [Figuratively] on Fire! , summarizing the great reviews.

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, co-author of the much-praised book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Microsoft Press, 2009; ISBN: 9780735626287; 432 pages), returns to dnrTV in show #158 , in which Sayed shows some third-party MSBuild scripts and tools and tasks. The video is 53 minutes, 18 seconds.

Please find below the list of Project 2010 sessions we will be delivering at Tech Ed Europe 2009 in Berlin in November. We will also have a Microsoft Project 2010 booth staffed by product experts in the Microsoft Product Pavilion so please drop by and ask plenty of questions! Session Description Code Speaker Date/Location Microsoft Project 2010 Overview This session provides an overview of the key investment areas and capabilities of Project Server 2010 and Project Professional 2010, including demand management, portfolio analysis, time tracking, and reporting. OFS214 Jan Kalis, Christophe Fiessinger 11/9/2009 13:30-14:45 New York 3 – Hall 7-1a Microsoft Project Server 2010 for IT Professionals and Developers This session provides details of what Project Server 2010 offers IT professionals and developers, including new features for easier deployment and management, and developer-related enhancements across Server and Client.

By popular demand I am attempting to aggregate SoCal Developer events on a monthly basis.  For October 2009 as follows below. I’ll be happy to add any developer events I may have missed, just send me mail via my blog. Week 1 (Sept 27 – Oct 3) Mon, Sept 28 – GirlsInTech / Santa Monica / 7pm – ‘How much can you say without tarnishing your brand?

Sara , the Queen of Open Source at Microsoft, celebrates her 8-year anniversary at MS her way, by jumping off the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere: