Future Meetings

Wednesday, February 24th, 2009 at 6:00 PM
New Horizons, East Syracuse

Jim O'Neil will present

Microsoft Codename "Dallas"

At PDC 2009, Microsoft announced "Dallas", a Data-as-a-Service offering that leverages the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. "Dallas" makes well-known and vetted public and commercial data sets from entities such as the Associated Press and Data.gov available to the development and data analysis communities. This session explores getting started with "Dallas" and accessing its data sets programmatically and via Excel 2010's PowerPivot feature.

Jim O'Neil is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Northeast District, including New England and Upstate New York. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 after nearly twelve years at Sybase as a support engineer, sales consultant, and evangelist for developer tools including PowerBuilder, DataWindow .NET, and EAServer (a J2EE application server). Jim is an MCPD and co-authored two books and multiple articles on application development using PowerBuilder. Prior to Sybase, he worked as a software engineer for MITRE and BDM International, Inc., developing prototypes and simulations for various DoD organizations.