If you liked the IT Pro | Dev Connections 2010 ... get ready to upgrade to version 2011! The technical community of Greek IT professionals, autoexec.gr, in cooperation with the relevant community of developers, dotNETZone.gr, are joining forces once again and will present an event with five parallel catting edge technical tracks! The event is exclusively focused on professionals and developers who don’t want to lose time in presentations of products with information that can be found on the Internet. I’m also going to participate in the event with a talk which is going to be titled...

Yesterday I had the chance to talk about the Microsoft Windows Azure platform for a Microsoft hosted developers’ event called devdays. I met and had a chance to chat with a lot of new faces which was very inspiring, as this means that more people become interested about cloud computing and Microsoft’s offering in this area, as time passes. What is more interesting is that many of them did not come from a Microsoft Computing background. For those of you that couldn’t make it yesterday, I’m posting my slide deck and demos...

I had the chance to speak at a Microsoft event this month (on April 6th) about the new mobile phone development platform unfortunately and due to my blog maintenance I wasn’t able to blog about it. Now that everything is back in order though, I can let you know about it and share some of the event’s content with you. The event had three sessions and a demo fest where developers presented their applications. On the first session Dimitris Gkanatsios gave an intro to the platform and spoke about the Pivot control, sensors (GPS, Accelerometer, Vibration), HTML...

Microsoft Hellas is holding a very interesting event in two weeks, on Thursday 12th of May, regarding application testing. If you are interested to learn how to load test your application, how to use lab management using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server then harry up and register.

Yesterday I presented a 200 level session on Windows Azure over Live Meeting. This was the first of a three part series of Live Meetings regarding Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform. The session covered all of the fundamentals of Cloud Computing, the different types of cloud computing services (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), and then went on discussing the Windows Azure Platform taking a deeper look into the Windows Azure OS (Computation, Storage, Management) namely Windows Azure. For those of you that missed it there will be a recording available soon at www.techdays.gr. till then you can download...

Today we celebrated the new year in a special community event held at Microsoft Offices. First we had our usual discussions looking back at the community activities and then went on discussing what we could do more in order to engage more with the community. Finally we cut two cakes and two lucky guys woke out with an XBOX 360 with Kinect (unfortunately I wasn’t one of them). I was able to stream and record most of this event through my tablet’s 3G network connection. The quality isn’t the best due to the connection speed, still you can still...

I guess most of you will know by now that ItPro|DevConnections is holding a lottery for two msdn subscriptions for all of those that took advantage of the early bird offer and subscribed for the event before the 30th of September. Well, I was assigned to perform the lottery which is going to take place today. This got me thinking, What would be the easiest (don’t have time) and geekiest (after all it’s a tech event) way to perform this lottery? And then it stuck me “why don’t I try LightSwitch, it’ll probably take me 10 minutes to prepare...

Great news arrived this week, once again I have been selected to participate in Tech·Ed Europe 2010 as a Microsoft Product Expert in the Technical Learning Center (TLC). I’m very excited and look forward for this. So if you're planning on attending this TechEd this year, ping me to have a chat with me ;-). See you all there...

Next month, on the 27th - 28th of November, the Greek IT (www.autoexec.gr) and Developers (www.dotnetzone.gr) communities are going to host a two day, four track event for IT Professionals and Developers www.itprodevconnections.gr that need to get in touch with cutting edge technology, meet and discuss with fellow professionals and interact with a bunch of great speakers. This is a great opportunity to advance your career as all the sessions are going to be first class. I’m also going to be there and will give two speeches. First one is going to be on the 27th at 15:30-16:45 | Cloud (IE)9...

Back from my holidays and straight to work. Reading through my emails though, I came by one where one of my friends have noticed that I’ve neglected to post my Silverlight Out Of Browser Applications presentation content.  So with my deepest apologies here it is. < </iframe>