Ribbit SPAWN Event – Nov 5, 2009 in San Francisco
Ribbit, a Microsoft Partner and division of British Telecom has been working with my team on some exciting technology integrations and is ready to show them off: Please

MySpace Qizmt, a .NET MapReduce Framework
When I went to MySpace to interview Erik and Akash about their usage of the CCR, I was also able to interview Mikhael Berlyant and Daniel Rule talking about Qizmt, their new open source .NET MapReduce framework. 

Robots at MySpace!
Got your attention? Not exactly robots, but software architects at MySpace have figured out a very cleaver use for the Coordination and Concurrency Runtime (CCR) that was originally released as part of the Robotic Developer Studio.  Take a look at this interview that I just did with Erik Nelson and Akash Patel at MySpace to learn what they’ve done with the CCR.

Silverlight Track at Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct 3-4, 2009
So now you’re ready to learn Silverlight – you’ve seen the demos of Deep Zoom, Smooth Streaming, PhotoSynth and Business Applications, and have been awed by the dynamic prototyping capabilities of SketchFlow in Expression Blend.  There is a great opportunity to do just that at the