1. You Always Talk About Script club 2. You Always Talk About Script Club 3. If Someone asks for Help, And You Can Help, You Help 4. Two People Help One Person at One Time 5. One Module Per Person Per Night 6. All Scripts, All PowerShell 7. Scripts will be as short as they can be 8. If This is your First time at Script Club, You Have to Script
I’m a total noob when it comes to PowerShell. I think I’ll need to make a trip up to visit Script Club to learn more. The interesting things is that the meetings are taking place in a municipal courtroom in the Greenfield Law Enforcement center. This club is so dangerous, they need court supervision!
You can find all the details on the group and their upcoming meeting on Steven’s blog.
The Bing Maps team has just released a major update built entirely on Silverlight 3. Some of the new enhancements are simply crazy cool! First up is something called Streetside. With Silverlight 3 they’re able to take advantage of some 3D aspects for this Streetside concept and really immerse the users into the site. One of the first things I tried out was to bring up Chicago and literally walk throughout the city with my little blue avatar. The imagery and the navigation is simply amazing. It was very simple to walk down the street and navigate myself around different streets and corners. In the upper right-hand corner, the map shows me the direction I’m viewing and my field-of-view.
If I move my blue avatar further down the street, the technology is able to detect a geographic change in the street, in this case Wacker Drive rounding a corner, and changes my avatar to let the user know there is a directional change. Think of what’s going on here. This is Silverlight, folks! Very cool!
Some of the other enhancements include an Enhanced Bird’s Eye view that incorporates our 3D model views and hi-res bird’s eye images for both urban and rural areas. In cases where we don’t have bird’s eye photography, we use various satellite data to represent 2D data as a 3D model, such as a mountain, thanks to Silverlight.
Also, one of the coolest things is the integration of Photosynth into Bing Maps.
This means you can zip down from space down into someone’s house…not kidding. If you’ve built a synth on Photosynth.com and geo-annotated it (the little globe icon) your synth gets indexed into Bing Maps.
Ram Cherala, Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, will be visiting the Midwest District to provide a deeper dive into the innovative new capabilities being introduced in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Elements and Test and Lab Management products.
These sessions are targeted toward Developers, Architects, and Quality Assurance teams. Attendees will be given the unique opportunity to have a first glimpse into the products and interact directly with the Redmond team responsible for designing and delivering these products to the market. We will cover a broad range of important topics including Software Quality Assurance, historical debugging, manual test runner, test impact analysis and test lab management.
Date
Location
Register
Milwaukee Monday, December 14, 2009
N19 W24133 Riverwood Drive Suite 150 Waukesha, WI 53188
It might not be our new marketing campaign for SQL Azure, but maybe it should be! The SQL Azure team has kicked off a feature suggestion site. If you would like to help shape SQL Azure and have a say on what features the team focuses on, share your thoughts (and votes) at http://mygreatsqlazureidea.com.
Today at the PDC conference, Scott Guthrie announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Beta. Scott announced some amazing new features as part of Silverlight 4 including webcam support, printing support, clipboard access, right-click and mouse wheel control, implicit styles, drop/drop, HTML rendering, commanding, and on and on.
Ram Cherala, Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, will be visiting the Midwest District to provide a deeper dive into the innovative new capabilities being introduced in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Elements and Test and Lab Management products.
