Sebastian Renzi’s Blog

Hi folks

Today it was a great day at PDC. At 8 a.m we were in the line ready to enter to the main hall to attend the Keynote. Today’s Keynote was driven by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. The focus was Azure new features like the appFabric and the possibility of uploading customized virtual machines (coming soon) among others.

Another topic that was announced is the “Sidney” project, that basically connects an on premises server with the cloud.

Then came the time for the demos, Cameron Skinner showed Tailspin Travel this demo was aimed to cover Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 new features. Pablo Costantini was part of the team that built it.

Many companies presented success cases about their products hosted on Windows Azure like, WordPress, Domino Pizza, Siemens IT Services, Kelley Blue Book and Coca Cola.

After the break I went to see Don Box and Chris Anderson on stage, what a great duo they make. The session was call “Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer”. They talked about Entity Framework new features and they announced a new data protocol called “OData”. Then they also announced a new project called “M”, it’s a data modeling language that you use to create DSLs to express your data.

You can also check Johnny’s and Tim’s post for more information.

See you tomorrow