October 2008 - Posts

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From PDC 2008 | HPC++ (Windows HPCS 2008) by Risman Adnan

HPC will not only available to scientific community and specific vertical anymore. From HW perspective, Microsoft and Cray had very special announcement about "personal super computer", which I think will drive more parallel computing on the...
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From PDC 2008 | Microsoft Code Name Dublin Part 1 by Risman Adnan

Seems like this project is authored by some folks from Ireland. Anyway, as I don't know the historical POV, just think of it as... "Microsoft Application Server on top of WAS infrastructure". Dublin will be the standard host for applications...
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From PDC 2008 | Geneva Server by Risman Adnan

Have you heard about Microsoft Code Name “Geneva”? Today I met the product team who built this STS framework and tools, they are under Kim Cameron team ( www.identityblog.com ). “Geneva” Server Beta enables Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to...
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From PDC 2008 | Windows Azure Part 2 ... by Risman Adnan

In this part, I assumed you already installed the required SDKs. To start cloud service project, just open Visual Studio 2008 and create new cloud service project - Web Cloud Service. Below is how it looks like: You will need SQL Server Express installed...
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From PDC 2008 | Windows Azure Part 1 by Risman Adnan

I'm happy to be here at PDC 2008 in LA, because I can try Windows Azure myself. The Azure™ Services Platform aligns with the Microsoft vision of Software-plus-Services and overall services strategy by offering customers, developers, and businesses...
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Part 3 : Silverlight, Expression and WMS by Risman Adnan

In this post, I have decided to go deeper on Expression Encoder SDK to give you insight what else you can do with Encoder 2, specifically to support your media publishing activities. For developers, this SDK are reusable libraries packaged into DLLs....
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Welcome to F# by Risman Adnan

In this post, I will introduce you to F#, a multi-paradigm .NET programming language that already attracted my attention. Lets try by downloading and installing it. I am using Version 1.9.6.2 at the time of this posting. For you who wants to follow me...
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Part 2 : Silverlight, Expression and WMS by Risman Adnan

In my previous posting , I explained about the backend infrastructure for media files streaming using both Web Server (IIS) and WMS. I do hope you can try to install WMS too (applicable for Windows 2003) and test it using your Windows Media Player, as...
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Part 1 : Silverlight, Expression and WMS by Risman Adnan

This post is about end-to-end scenario for digital media experience using Silverlight (SL) as UX front-end, Expression (Blend and Encoder) as tools and Windows Media Services (WMS) as back-end streaming engine. WMS is a platform for streaming audio and...
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Working with Sharepoint in Vista by Risman Adnan

I followed the guidance from Bambo solutions to run WSS 3.0 SP1 with IIS 7.0 and SQL Server 2005 backend in my Vista machine. It works well, you can follow it too within 15 minutes . For UI level customization, I use Sharepoint Designer which is available...
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