Events

Speaking at JavaOne 2010!

Posted by Simon on September 8, 2010 at 7:35 pm
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I recently found out that I will be speaking at JavaOne again this year!  I’ll be participating on a quick-fire demo panel called Taking Java to the Sky:  Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel together with representatives from Oracle, Salesforce, and Amazon.  Raghavan Srinivas will again be doing a wonderful job by moderating the session, and you can [...]

QCon San Francisco talk now available online

Posted by Simon on May 29, 2010 at 1:57 am

This is from November 2009, but I’ve just noticed that my “Patterns for Cloud Computing” session recording from QCon San Francisco has been posted online. You can find the recording and slides here.

Microsoft @Cloud Conference in Korea

Posted by Simon on February 19, 2010 at 5:53 am

I have the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the Microsoft @Cloud Conference in Korea next week.  I’m not sure how many people from Korea (if any!) follow my blog, but if you do and are planning to come, I would love to meet you. 
This will be my third trip to Korea and I’m [...]

Presenting Successful Demos

Posted by Simon on January 7, 2010 at 6:00 pm

I was watching a presentation yesterday, half way through which the presenters fired up a demo of their application. To their horror, the demos failed spectacularly.  After what seemed like an eternity trying to recover, the presenters were forced to move on, leaving the presenters visibly annoyed and the audience disappointed.
Although I’m not immune to [...]

Cloud Computing Interoperability

Posted by Simon on November 20, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with Jean Paoli’s team at Microsoft to create an application that runs across multiple cloud vendors.  Jean’s team has been working on a number of SDKs for PHP and Java, and I wanted to create a sample that demonstrated all of them working together.
The result is a [...]

Eclipse Tooling for Windows Azure

Posted by Simon on October 28, 2009 at 11:36 pm

If you’ve been following the recent developments on Windows Azure, you are probably aware that the July CTP of Windows Azure introduced support for FastCGI.  One of the benefits of supporting FastCGI is the ability to run PHP applications in the Azure fabric. 
If you are a developer using the Eclipse IDE, this month marks [...]

PDC09

Posted by Simon on October 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm

One of the conferences that I regularly look forward to is PDC.  This year will be the first in a move to an annual format, as traditionally it has only been every two years.  If you are on the fence about going, it looks like there is only one more day to register (to qualify [...]

Coming to a Conference Near You (Maybe ;-))

Posted by Simon on September 8, 2009 at 3:43 am

Brad beat me to blogging this, but he, Arturo, Adam, and I will be traveling to Europe at the end of the month to deliver several sessions across numerous web developer, designer, and architect conferences throughout Europe.
My schedule takes me to the following places:
Tuesday 22nd September (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Presenting “Patterns for Cloud Computing” to post-LEAP attendees.
Wednesday [...]

Patterns for Cloud Computing

Posted by Simon on August 24, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Over the past few months I’ve been working with many customers and internal groups to try and determine whether there is a common set of patterns for cloud computing.  As you’ve probably read, many people are claiming to do cloud computing, so my goal has been to explore the types of applications that people are [...]

Online Talks from TechEd 2009

Posted by Simon on May 27, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Just before heading home from TechEd 2009 in LA, I recorded a couple of online interviews, which are now available:
Patterns for Moving to the Cloud:  Recorded with Denny Boynton, host of ARCast, we chat about where applications live, and what applications make sense for the cloud.  We also cover a set of patterns that was [...]