Last week, Larry Clarkin and I had the opportunity to sit down with Sergio Pereira and discuss one of his passion topics, JavaScript. We talk about a little about the history, the nuances, the frameworks and really the evolution of the language that has become prevalent in the land of client-side web development.

Thirsty Developer #70 – Sergio on JavaScript

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Last night, my good friend Larry Clarkin invited me along to witness his beloved Milwaukee Brewers take on the Washington Nationals. Me, being the Cubs fan that I am, had to work in a few “Cubs are in first place” ribbings now and again (although that didn’t last long as their now a 1/2 game back). I also felt compelled to share my Brewers game experience with the world of Twitter with the following post:

Unbeknownst to me, the Milwaukee Brewers also have a Twitter account. Also unknown to me (until now) is they have (what I’m assuming is) an automated bot trolling the streams of Twitter searching for the keywords ‘Brewers’ and ‘Milwaukee’ and retweeting them. Here’s what popped up on my Twitter stream a few moments later…

After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard, Larry and I had a nice technical discussion (yes…we’re geeks talking tech at a ball game) in what the MIL_Brewers bot forgot to do. It’s one thing to look for patterns and act on them, but you also want to be sure to apply exclusions in your pattern searches as well. I’m sure the MIL_Brewers bot is scanning for foul language. In this case they might want to determine if ‘Cubs’ is a 4-letter word or not. As a Cubs fan, I was happy to see this posted to all of the MIL_Brewers Twitter followers out there.

The Brewers ended up losing to the Nationals 8-3. Maybe my Tweet sent a little bad mojo to the Brew Crew. :)

GO CUBS!

I will be presenting a session on Multi-Enterprise Business Applications in the Cloud as part of the July meeting of the Chicago Cloud Computing Users Group on July 30, 2009 at 6PM in Downers Grove, IL.

Join us for the July local meeting of the Cloud Computing User Group – this month in Downers Grove.

Our topic this month is Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBAs), a new category of application for business collaboration that the cloud makes possible. We’ll review what the current thinking on MEBAs is from Microsoft and the cloud community followed by an in-depth demo and code exploration of an Azure business collaboration application.

Dave Bost, Developer Evangelist from the Developer Platform and Evangelism team at Microsoft will be the presenter. He will discuss how MEBAs facilitate business processes that span enterprises, how they are enacted by the exchange of messages, and how complex, cross-organizational challenges are managed through these applications (e.g. Security, Data, Management and Governance).

In this session, I will discuss the work that I was recently a part of in Redmond on “Project MEBA” in partnership with the Platform Architecture team. If the planets align, we will have the visionary and brainchild behind “Project MEBA”, Jack Greenfield join us by conference call.

You can find all the details and registration information at http://www.azureusergroup.com/events/event/show?id=2698780%3AEvent%3A13229&xgi=6zA1EHT.

Today, Todd Brix from the Windows Mobile blog announced that the Windows Marketplace for Mobile is now accepting application submissions. As you may have heard, Microsoft is in the midst of testing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The Marketplace will be a one stop shop for users of Windows Mobile powered devices to discover, shop and download applications, games or widgets for their Windows Mobile device. It’s all about connecting sellers with buyers of Windows Mobile-based software. And with over 30 million Windows Mobile devices out in the market, that is a significant audience for you to reach with your applications and pocket a significant amount of cash along the way.

Registered developers and ISVs can now upload their application, game or widget to the Windows Marketplace platform and we’ll begin certifying those apps according to theprocess, policies and guidelines we’ve published. We certify apps on a First In, First Out (FIFO) basis. Certification should normally take about 10 business days initially and you can always check on your application during the process through our Developer Dashboard. To better market your app, you can provide us with all the product information and promotional materials you’d like us to use to describe and showcase your application for the more than 30 million Windows Mobile devices out there.

To get the submission process kicked off, the team is launching The Race to Market Challenge today. This is contest is open to developers to submit their applications to be published on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The prizes aren’t too shabby. How does your very own Microsoft Surface Table sound? They’re not giving away just one of these bad boys, but four of them!

Applications will be judged on:
– Most downloads of a free app
– Most valuable app (downloads x price)
– Most useful (as judged by Microsoft panel)
– Most playful (as judged by Microsoft panel)

It doesn’t matter if you win. As we’ve seen with other online stores, the first applications to make it to market typically make the biggest splash and lots of cash!

Good luck to all you Windows Mobile developers!