I presented a paper last month for the ACM and IEEE that will be published in the Cloud Computing Journal next month.  Thought I would post a few links here for those who are interested in cloud - I did cover Azure.  I'll do a blog post for Azure and VB when I manage to upload SHARP to the cloud, like I plan to.

The slides are on the IEEE site: http://www.ieeecolumbus.org/node/97

The presentation video is at my SpeakerSite: http://www.speakersite.com/profile/BillSempf

The article will be on my Ulitzer site: http://williamasempf.ulitzer.com/

I hope you find the information as interesting as I did!

Just finished up a presentation on Visual Studio 2010 for ICC's MS Dev special interest group.  A good time was had by all.  I used the card deck that is in the Training Kit, and added a few salient slides.  We had a lot of conversation about Linq, WPF and the lifecycle integration.

My slide deck can be downloaded here, and I also wanted to post a few links that I mentioned in the talk.

• VS 2010 download
• Some best practices surrounding downloading VS 2010
• The hack for getting around the VS expiration
• Some other Activation notes
• The post about linq-to-sql end of life
• The VS training kit

I hope to get some comments back - feel free to email me, especially if they are bad.  (heh)  Thanks to all for attending!