I found some of these online, it’s always interesting to go find out what these guys are up to these days. I was always wondering when I would see them on TWiT.
Category: Video of the Week
Microsoft's funny digs at VMWare
Insane, rediculous, and fairly funny. Microsoft wants to take on VMWare and other similar cloud based solutions that Microsoft claims aren’t equal to their own. Only time will tell how their claims stack up, but their marketing campaign is worth a click!
Video and news of the fire at my office
As I described in my previous blog post, I’ve had a lot of things turned upside down this week after a fire wiped out the office I work out of for my day job. I thought I would share some of the articles and videos.
How Windows 8 applications will handle Push Notifications
iPhones, Androids, even Windows Phone 7 devices and your old brick phones… they all had notifications to let you know if you’ve got a voicemail, text message, email, or nowadays even to suggest that your Draw Something friend has… drawn something. This all happens in the background, either on a schedule like every 15 minutes, or with a technology called “Push.” In many cases, developers need to have their own backend servers for their applications to communicate with. So how will Windows 8 do these Push Notifications? With Windows 8 development, your Windows 8 apps will use the existing Microsoft Azure servers and access the WNS (Windows Push Notification Service). In this video from Microsoft’s Channel 9, Nick Harris is here to tell you all of the details. It’s a lengthy discussion, probably more than the average person wants to know – but for geeks & developers? Some of this might be pure gold.