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Microsoft Azure Cloud Hack Event Videos

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This year, I was very privileged to be asked to present the Cloud Hack event. In these videos we go behind the scenes and talk to the participants and to the API partners who kindly gave us access to their web APIs for the day.

We set the developers a challenge to build the most imaginative applications they could, using as many of the APIs as possible during the day.

In the second video, we meet the API partners. Thanks to Huddle, PayPal, Network Rail Enquiries and of course Microsoft Bing Maps.

In the third video, we catch up with some of the coders and see what they have managed to build on Azure in the cloud.

The Cloud Hack: Microsoft Azure Hack Day, London, Saturday 11 June 2011.

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I’m presenting at this year’s Microsoft Hack Day. This year’s theme is Microsoft Azure and using cool APIs to write innovative applications for the cloud.

Hooking Stuff Together

The Cloud Hack event is a celebration of all that is good about Web 2.0 development on the Microsoft stack. To paraphrase great all-round architecture dude and high priest of SOA, Microsoft’s Pat Helland, it’s really all about Hooking Stuff Together.

Microsoft Windows Azure gives us a great fabric upon which to deploy services and applications that make the best of Hooking web services Stuff Together. When you sign up for The Cloud Hack, you’ll get a 30-day free subscription to Azure.

The three APIs we’ll be working with on the day include National Rail, Bing Maps and Fantastic Tavern. At the very least, there should be enough API goodness there to plan an impromptu pub crawl. And if that’s not good use of Web 2.0, then feel free to leave comments at the end of this blog post and tell me what is. Smile

Getting There

If you’re reading this before the event, you can get free tickets here: http://www.thecloudhack.com/pages/get-a-ticket/

The location for the day is the Vibe Bar at the THE BREWERY, 52 CHISWELL STREET, EC1Y 4SD.


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The schedule for the has been published too:http://www.thecloudhack.com/pages/schedule/