Thursday, September 25, 2014

event: Microsoft AzureConf.net 2014

Microsoft AzureConf.net 2014:

AzureConf Logo

On October 21st, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf, another free event for the Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions executed by Azure community members

IoT: standards - O'Reilly Radar

In pursuit of universal IoT standards - O'Reilly Radar:

"The first remotely operated domestic machine — a toaster — was connected to the Internet less than a quarter-century ago, in 1990. The Internet of Things (IoT) doubled in size a year later with the addition of a coffee pot. Eventually, the Internet Engineering Task Force Network Working Group assigned the coffee pot its own specific standard, HTCPCP 1.0, the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, RFC 2324."
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Free e-Book: Learning Xamarin | Jesse Liberty

Free e-Book: Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development With Xamarin | Jesse Liberty:

e-book

Windows Apps: one fee forewer

New Dev Center lifetime registration and benefits program:
"Windows Dev Center requires only a one-time registration payment, which grants developers the ability to submit apps to both the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store, with no annual renewal fee...

Each of our 600,000+ registered developers will no longer need to pay any additional fees to maintain their account."
Building Apps for Windows

TWC9: WinJS 3.0, Dev Center Lifetime Registration, the .NET Universe Poster and more | This Week On Channel 9 | Channel 9

Getting the most out of Azure in your MSDN subscription - BizSpark Australia - Site Home - MSDN Blogs


WinJS 3.0 open source

WinJS Everywhere:

JavaScript library for WinRT apps (Windows & Phone 8.1)

is now available as open source and also works with Chrome, Safari & Firefox.

A nice way to make Windows 8 UI on Android :)



WinJS: 5 Things You Need To Know About Microsoft's New Open-Source JavaScript Library - ReadWrite

person: Peter Thiel (PayPal)

Peter Thiel's Contrarian Strategy @ Fortune Magazine (cover story)

"...In 1998, Thiel co-founded the pioneering e-commerce payments company PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. 

... PayPal people including at least seven now valued at more than $1 billion:"

  • Tesla TSLA -2.06% and SpaceX (co-founded by Elon Musk), 
  • LinkedIn LNKD -2.64% (Reid Hoffman), 
  • YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim), [Google] 
  • Yelp YELP -3.49% (Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons), 
  • Yammer (David O. Sacks),  [Microsoft]
  • and the data-mining company Palantir (co-founded by Thiel himself in 2004).

Zero to One (book's web site)