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TechZulu's Geoffrey Emery interviews Microsoft Architecture Evangelist David Chow at the PDC Underground. What is a Architect Evangelist? ITs a person who specializes in a  Microsoft Technology and helps other Architects in the business world find the right answers and the right people for the job at hand. David’s current Technology Platform is Microsoft Cloud Computing project known as Azure.  David describes to us how the cloud will help us extend out our current architecture from the internal data center out onto the cloud giving the enterprise environment more flexibility and a robust disaster recover model. He also explains that by taking our datacenters to the cloud we are given the ability to scale horizontally instantaneously with only minor costs increases. David firmly believes that this form of computing will democratize the way the internet works allowing everyone to host and scale as if they were a Amazon or EBay size webiste. It is truly a exciting time for the internet community as cloud computing is bringing in a age of cheaper hosting and easing designing for a architecture of scale. Look for this and more in this very exciting interview.

Topic Links

Microsoft Azure – http://azure.com

Microsoft Silver light – http://silverlight.com

Microsoft Public Devoloper Confrence – http://microsoftpdc.com

Davids blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/

PDC Undergound - http://underground.socalcodecamp.com/

Jeffrey Palermo is responsible for the popular "Party with Palermo" events that often precede major Microsoft-focused conferences. Started in June of 2005, Party with Palermo has grown in popularity and size. Typical events host 400 people for free drinks, fingerfood, and door prizes. It is the perfect way to hook up with friends and colleagues before the conference week begins. You can see past and upcoming parties at http://partywithpalermo.com.

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Stuff Jeffrey recommends you check out this summer:

• ASP.NET MVC
• Domain-Driven Design
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
• Art of Agile Development by James Shore
• Agile Manifesto
• Extreme Programming
• Scott Guthrie
• Javaposse.com
• Google News
• Tim Heuer's Twitter Handle: timheuer
• Michael Feathers' Twitter Handle: mfeathers
• Robert Martin's Twitter Handle: unclebobmartin

Hear Jeffrey's must-have resources for the summer and why he follows Java, LAMP, and Google news.

Don't forget to take Jeffrey with you:

This release is pre-alpha, and intended to get the product into the hands of early adopters in order to get feed back and bug reports. In order to focus our efforts on getting this release out, we have targeted only one device, the HTC Touch Pro. This has a number of user interface implications, including graphics designed for a 300 dpi screen, control layout intended for a vga screen and reliance on a hardware keyboard for text input.

Keep in mind, this is what Mozilla is calling a milestone build. It's not a beta. It's not even a public alpha. It's a "working, usable browser," but that's about it. There's no support for updates, plug-ins, or software keyboards. But many of the bugs that users found in the pre-milestone version should be gone by now.

Installation

You can install this on your HTC Touch Pro by navigating to the cab installer with your existing browser. This will download the cab file and kick off the installation process. Or you can download it to your PC and use ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center to copy it to your phone.

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is a web hosting service that gives you a domain name (any available .com, .net, .org, or .info), email, business management tools, collaboration tools, and more, for a surprising price tag: $0.

Despite the Small Business moniker, the service doesn't appear to be limited only to businesses—meaning you could probably use the service as a personal site (as CNET suggests). Check in with the Microsoft Office Live Small Business video tour for a closer look at what you can expect if you decide to sign up. The service is free for one year, after which you'll need to pony up a still-reasonable $15/year. If you've used it in the past, share you experience in the comments.

Alternately, if you're not keen on Microsoft's hosting offer, check out the most popular reliable and affordable web hosts according to Lifehacker readers.

The MSN Mobile site has recently been updated to include a lot more content, most notably additional videos from MSN Videos. The new videos section of the MSN Mobile site is now offering both high and low quality streaming videos in addition to a download option which you can use to save the videos onto your device. The videos can then be streamed anytime, even offline, with Windows Media Player. Within the videos section, you’ll find videos in several different categories including News, Sports, Music, Movies, TV, Comedy, Viral, Latino, and Lifestyle, as well as a “What’s Hot” section at the top. From your mobile device, go to home.mobile.msn.com to see the new content.