Eric D. Boyd, Founder + CEO of responsiveX, will be presenting a full-day HTML5 + Cloud workshop, and two breakout sessions at Visual Studio Live! Redmond taking place in Redmond, WA on the Microsoft Campus. You can find out more about the workshop and two sessions below.
HTML5 + Cloud – Reach Everyone, Everywhere
August, 6th from 8:00am – 6:00pm
The web, more and more, is tightly integrated into our daily lifestyles. Our use of the web with social networking and rich media has increased radically over the past few years. Consumerization of sophisticated mobile devices has been one of the major drivers of that rapid growth. But the challenge for developers is the fragmentation of the mobile development ecosystem. Because of this fragmentation, you have to create mobile apps multiple times, with different programming languages and tools. And these mobile applications are different from the applications that target the desktops and browsers.
In this workshop, you will learn how to build modern web applications with HTML5 that users can access across their various platforms and devices. Write one and run everywhere is not a new goal, but it has been a challenging one to achieve. HTML5 is in a great position to be the technology that achieves this goal with standards adoption across vendors, platforms and devices.
When you consider the user experience that is expected of HTML5 applications, it becomes apparent that there are services beyond HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript that are needed. This is where the Cloud and Windows Azure comes into the picture.
During this workshop, Eric will show you how to get started building modern web applications with HTML5. Eric will also walk through Windows Azure and how to use the Windows Azure Platform to provide the experience that users expect of modern web apps.
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database and What’s New
August 8th @ 1:30pm
Windows Azure provides many options for storing data. SQL Database is Windows Azure’s solution for working with relational data. If you are familiar with SQL Server, Windows Azure SQL Database will be a natural extension of your knowledge and skills.
In this session, you will get introduced to SQL Database and learn how to get started. We will explore how to migrate an existing on-premise SQL Server database to Windows Azure SQL Database. We will then walkthrough how to manage and administer your SQL Database servers and databases. We will take a look at how to connect and build applications using SQL Database. Next, we will look at more advanced scenarios using new capabilities like reporting with Windows Azure SQL Reporting, scaling and sharing databases with SQL Database Federations and synchronizing data with Windows Azure SQL Data Sync for hybrid scenarios and global reach. Finally, we will explore some of the things you should consider when using Windows Azure SQL Database.
Consuming and Publishing Data for Any Platform with OData
August 9th @ 2:45pm
The amount of data stored today is growing at a rapid rate. However, data is only valuable if it is accessible and can be consumed by people and systems. OData is an open protocol for sharing data that is positioned to solve this problem. OData uses the standard HTTP protocol using REST principles to make data accessible and has huge industry momentum with rapid adoption growth. In this session, we will explore what OData is all about and how to expose relational and non-relational data as OData using WCF Data Services. We will then walkthrough developing apps to consume the OData feeds from multiple clients and platforms including mobile devices. Finally, we will take a look at how you can benefit from publishing your OData services to Windows Azure.
Click here to get more information and to register for Visual Studio Live! Redmond.
