Where: Versa
Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Jim o'Neil, Microsoft Technical Evangelist
Overview
At
PDC 2009, Microsoft announced "Dallas", a Data-as-a-Service offering
that leverages the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. "Dallas"
makes well-known and vetted public and commercial data sets from
entities such as the Associated Press and Data.gov available to the
development and data analysis communities. This session explores
getting started with "Dallas" and accessing its data sets
programmatically and via Excel 2010's PowerPivot feature.
Bio
Jim
is one of the Microsoft Developer Evangelists in the Northeast
District. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 after 12 years working with
developer tools and application server technology as a support
engineer, evangelist, and principal sales consultant at Sybase. Jim
holds an MCPD and is 1/2 of the team that presents the quarterly
Northeast Roadshow providing information on the latest Microsoft
technologies to the developer communities in New England and upstate
New York