• Slides from Microsoft Cloud Summit 2012 in Dallas

    by  • July 12, 2012 • Speaking, USCloud, Windows Azure

    I had a great time at the summit, and it was a great crowd. You know it’s going to be a fun day when Scott Gu is interrupted with questions from a 400 person audience right from the start. I don’t know about other speakers, but I love interaction from the audience, the more the better.

    I presented on Windows Azure Web Sites, going into what they do, and how they work. I did a quick Hello World demo. The audience decided to start a company that would provide Pizza Eaters as a Service, so we built that out, from scratch. We used MVC4, and code first EF. We deployed to Web Sites and SQL Database in seconds. So fast that people had entered data into the site before I had time to flip over to the browser!

    I have posted the slides and the sample code here:

    Slides: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=94EE1D8B873177EC!18970

    Source: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=94EE1D8B873177EC!18971

    I then showed a service running in Web Sites that was based on WebApi, and then showed a simple HTML5 Windows 8 App that consumed the service. Instead of the standard calculator service I deployed a string reversal service. I feel there is a large untapped market for string reversal, and I hope we disrupt it.

    That source and walkthrough can be found on these posts:

    Hosting a WebAPI service on Windows Azure Web Sites

    Consuming that REST WebAPI from Windows 8 HTML5

    About

    Brian H. Prince is the Chief Technical Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft, based in the US. He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level. In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super. Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various international technology conferences. He only wishes his job didn’t require him to say ‘super’ so much. Brian is the co-author of “Azure in Action”, published by Manning Press. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. For example, he is a huge fan of Fallout 3, Portal, and pretty much every other game he plays.