5 ways to grow your community through blogging is only the beginning of what Rick Strahl talks about with TechZulu's Geoffrey Emery. Rick tells to us about how he started his blog 5 years ago and what he has learned about it in this time frame. We then do a deep dive into PDC from a seasoned developer point of view on everything from Silver light to C# to dynamic Languages. One of the things that I really like about Rick Is that he never holds back in his interviews or his blog which turns out for some really great no hold bar content. Get this and more in this great interview.

Rick’s Blog - http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/

Silver Light – http://micorosft.com/silverlight

Dynamic Language   - http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL10/

C# - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx

jQuery - http://jquery.com/

MVC – http://asp.net/mvc

What do you get when you cross a Language Geek with BI (Business intelligence) guru and put them in front of a surface? Lynn Langit talks with Geoffrey Emery at The PDC Underground about this and more. The talk of the town at PDC has to be the launch of the azure platform and all the Live Services. Lynn dives into what this all means to to the developer community and how it can help you with the horizontal scale and doing data analysis through BI. One thing that cloud computing brings to the table is that you can bring up as many servers that you need for data analysis. What most people don't realize yet is that it takes a ton of servers to do long term financial projections. These projections model can take hours and hours to run over a server farm. By putting this kind computational intensive applications in the cloud you can save your self huge amounts of money as these servers usually sit idle during the day and only come on at night to crunch new numbers. This can all be pushed to the cloud so that you can concentrate on the analysis and let the infrastructure cost and worry be hosted.

We then dive into some of the really cool ways to do design of these new modeling paradigms using Microsoft OSLO and how you can all these pieces and put them together on a surface!

Check out this and more on this great video.

To Learn more about surface check out this video below

Links In Interview

Lynn’s Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/

Microsoft Surface - http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

PDC - http://microsoftpdc.com

PDC Underground – http://underground.socalcodecamp.com

SQL Server BI - http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/business-intelligence.aspx

Oslo - http://www.microsoft.com/soa/products/oslo.aspx

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Tonight from 5:15pm to 6:45pm PST, TechZulu and the Digital Family Reunion (DFR) is bringing the Southern California technology and business communities 'Live' . In association with some of the region's top trade associations and social networking groups, the DFR is throwing the holiday party of the millennium... so far! The DFR will reignite old relationships, spark new ones, and set the stage to kick off 2009 with a bright new start.

Inviting early adopters and legacy participants of the Internet 1.0 and today's digitally apt Internet 2.0 tube dwellers, the DFR will create the optimum conditions for these generations to synergize with one another and inspire opportunities that will serve our industries, our region, and our society at large. Attendees will include leaders from all the major industry sectors such as media, entertainment, finance, publishing, venture funding, software, commerce, education, and many more.

The DFR is helping to set an engagement platform to advance the conversation between these like-minded, yet diverse communities by asking the question: "If we knew how connected we all are, how would that change everything?"

What happens when you all your slides fail your microphone doesn’t work and then the projector turns off right before you do your presentation? This is just the start of a great conversation that Geoffrey Emery has with David Robinson at the PDC Underground. Dave just lets it all out and more when he talks about cloud computing and what a exciting time it is to be in the windows family. He is currently working on a new technology at Microsoft  called  SDS SQL Data Services a program at Microsoft that will eventually put SQL server in the cloud.  David also brings up how to do bring the cloud computing  to your boss in a way that would be easy for everyone to understand.

Putting the pieces together Microsoft is coming out with some really interesting technologies for cloud computing that is not just a database in the cloud but also hosting of your web site either by spinning up a new server instance and launching it in the cloud or by actually deploying your code into the cloud automatically by using Visual Studio development platform  and  eliminating the need for the developer to know the ins and outs of IIS for those who don't need it.

Links in the video

David's Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/drobinson/

Windows Azure – http://azure.com

SQL Server Data Services (SDS) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx

Visual Studio - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx

Microsoft Could Computing – http://azure.com

IIS - http://www.iis.net/