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