Sponsorship
Sponsorship for this meeting is currently available. If interested in sponsoring please email contact@condg.org
Topic
Windows Azure Boot Camp Express
Abstract
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud services operating system that serves as a development, service hosting and service management environment. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage capabilities to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters. In this session, we will explore all the major features that Windows Azure has to offer. We will also see how easy it is to leverage existing .NET skills and familiar tools to develop solutions that run in the cloud with Windows Azure.
Speaker
Michael Collier is an Architect with Centric Consulting in their Columbus, OH office. He has nearly 10 years of experience building Microsoft based applications for a wide range of clients. Michael spends his days serving as a developer or architect – helping clients succeed with the Microsoft development platform. He gets very “geeked up” about any new technology, tool, or technique that makes his development life easier. Currently he is working with a major national automobile insurance provider where he is helping to build out many new e-commerce offerings. Michael spends most of his spare time reading technology blogs and exploring new development technologies. He is also an avid golfer and attempts to be good at shooters on the Xbox 360.
Grok Talk Topic
Columbus Give Camp
Abstract
Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom software could be a new website for the nonprofit organization, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, or a application for the Red Cross that automatically emails a blood donor three months after they’ve donated blood to remind them that they are now eligible to donate again. The point is, Give Camp is a great way to give back to the local community by helping local non-profits while working with and learning from other developers, designers, architects and IT professionals that you might not otherwise get a chance to.
Give Camp committee members Bramha Ghosh and James Bender will tell you more about Give Camp, how it works, how much fun it is and how when a few determined, passionate geeks get together, they can accomplish amazing things in the span of a couple of days. You will hear stories from the previous two Columbus Give Camps, see examples of the work that has been done find out how you can get involved.
Speakers
Bramha Ghosh and James Bender are experienced Give Campers who also serve on the Central Ohio Give Camp committee along with Alexei Govorin under the benevolent and fearless leadership of Carey Payette.
When
Thursday, 5/27/2010, 6:00 - ??
Where
Microsoft Office - Columbus