Augusto Alvarez

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Like I mentioned before, I participated on another Microsoft Universidades event here in Argentina. This time I visited the City of Mendoza, at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional.

The event was mainly organized by an old Student Partner collegue Fernando Hualpa together with Ángel Arcoraci and Marcelo Quevedo.

On the Microsoft side, I made the trip with Pablo Listingart and the one and only Alejandro Ponicke.

Some of the topics on this one day event were:

• XNA: Little story about gaming and with a short example about XNA.
• Expression Blend: Using Expression suite of Visual Studio.
• Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V together with Physical to Virtual migrations.
• Windows 2008 + IIS 7: Linux interoperability.

Ponicke’s machine with 192 cores and 200gb of memory

Even though  I didn’t have much time to walk around Mendoza, it is a lovely city that I recommend to visit. I really hope I get the chance soon enough to spend some time there.

Cheers!

Another Microsoft’s Academic event and another great time that we could spend with Southworks crew.

This time the UAI (Universidad Abierta Interamericana) received the Code Camp. Hundreds of students and professionals attended to this event organized by Microsoft Universidades that introduced over 40 conferences along the day, on which I had the pleasure to present a renewed version of Windows 2008 + II7.

On this occasion, besides working IIS with PHP, I showed a simple way using a working Linux + Apache server, making this an iSCSI server that can provide storage to remote machines, that they see this remote storage as local attached hard drives. And of course, all the benefits of serving this sites on IIS7 with Failed Request Tracing, Reporting, etc.

For those interesested, here’s the ppt file from my presentation (spanish): windows-server-2008-iis-7-interoperabilidad.

NAS solution using iSCSI (graphic from http://www.wikipedia.org/)
 

 Taking a side all the geeky stuff, it was really fun working on this event with Southworks and other friends that also participated as speakers or organizers. The other southies that presented here: Alberto Ortega, Matias Woloski, Johnny Halife, Pablo “Lito” Damiani, Ezequiel Jadib, Martin Salias, Angel “Java” Lopez, Paulo Arancibia, Federico Boerr and, now a former southie, Miguel Saez; also good and old tech partners like Alejandro Ponicke and his crew participated. And talking about my home town, GENTI and .NetSgo (academic cells also) came all the way from Santiago del Estero to participate.

 Some of the southworks crew at the event stand
 

 Introducing the company to a few people also

SDE’s cells

With Miguel Saez
 

And continuing with the academic events, I’ll also visiting Mendoza for another Cells on Camp event on November.

We’ll see each other then!

Cheers!

Augusto