My birthday was a few weeks ago and my lovely wife had the idea to get me a Deep Fried Bytes birthday cake. I just now got the pictures synced up so I thought I’d share it.
The most important thing about the cake was it had thick, I mean extremely thick icing on it. It was delicious. The employees at Home Bake in Hattiesburg did a great job.
It is official, it is Christmas in July for many MSDN / Technet subscribers. The official RTM version of Windows 7 will be available for download on MSDN / Technet on July 13th.
Wait… I thought it was supposed to be released on October 22nd?
The October 22nd date is the date it will be available in stores. The July 13th release is the same version that will be cut to the manufacturers. It takes the manufacturers time to get their stuff in order so units can start shipping (usually about 3 months). Thus pending any major bugs, the July 13th release is the official version.
The official story broke at http://geeksmack.net/microsoft/438-confirmed-windows-7-to-rtm-july-13th.html and then got picked up by http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/03/confirmed-windows-7-set-to-rtm-on-july-13th.
July 13th I’ll be in Fort Smith, AR presenting at the local .Net User Group there on the topic of distributed caching with Velocity (Microsoft’s new distributed caching product).
This will be my second trip to the state of Arkansas as I was in Little Rock earlier in the year. Before hitting Fort Smith, we are planning a mini-vacation to Branson, Mo. We’ve been there before and it will be fun to spend the weekend there.
Here is the abstract and title for Monday night’s presentation:
Have you ever used the built-in caching capabilities within Asp.Net? If you have you know that as long as you have one server to cache information it works really well. What happens though when you add an additional server? Or even better let’s say you add an additional 10 servers! Now what? What happens is you’ve got data replicated all over the place and it gets out of sync. Not to mention it becomes really hard to manage as data gets changed. Enter “Velocity”, Microsoft’s new distributed caching product. In this session we’ll do a thorough look at all of the pieces of Velocity from installation/deployment, configuration, the API and some of its features like regions and tags.
Last year I was invited to speak at a lot of conferences and code camps but the one that I didn’t get to go to due to scheduling conflicts was CodeStock held in Knoxville, TN. This year I made sure it was on my schedule because the majority of my Twitterverse / Tribe will be there and I couldn’t stand to see the tweets from a remote location again this year.
I’ll be doing two of my “Back To Basics” sessions this year to help those that want to learn .Net get acclimated into the .Net platform. The two sessions are:
While these two sessions aren’t about the latest and greatest technology and won’t fill the room, I strongly believe they are a necessity for code camps and other areas. Speakers tend to focus on the latest and greatest shiny new thing but there is a huge whole whereby those that are starting at ground zero don’t have a place to go. I’m glad these sessions got picked.
On Friday evening from 5:00 – 6:00 Woody and myself will be doing a Deep Fried Bytes episode live!
But, the coolest announcement is that Elly Mae will be there live and in person to help us kick off the show. So for those in attendance you’ll get a special treat no doubt getting to meet the truest Southern Belle in the South.
It is going to be a great weekend with loads of fun. See you there! (ps – rumor has it there are a handful of tickets left if you still haven’t signed up)
If you aren’t doing anything Wednesday, June 24th, around 3:00 EST sign up for the MSDN Webcast called Geek Speak and tune in to see me walk through deploying various WCF bindings such as TCP / MSMQ services in IIS / WAS.
Register Online Here:
Bring some popcorn or favorite Deep Fried Food, sit back and get your geek own!