Jeff Sandquist

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:39] Mark your calendar: We are hosting a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event on Feb 29 in Barcelona! [1:52] C++ AMP Open Specification (S.Somasegar) [4:08] C# to C++ – A Somewhat Short Guide (Michael B. McLaughlin) [5:40] One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman) [7:11] 10 myths holding HTML5 back (Martin Beeby) [9:11] Beta of Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone released (Adalberto Foresti), Beta release of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone ( Lee Stott) [Found Via: Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone] [10:27] Extension Me Serialize: With Encryption! (Caleb McElrath) [12:53] IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset) [14:13] MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases (Boris Lublinsky) , "MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Case" (Ilya... - Jeff Sandquist

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to share some of his best moments on the Cloud Cover show and review some of the best demos he's built over the years. http://devoxx.cloudapp.net/ http://netflixpivot.cloudapp.net/ http://ssplayer.cloudapp.net/ http://www.twoenglishes.com/ http://www.flatterist.com/ In the news: Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released Welcome to Wordament on Windows Azure You can stay in touch with Steve Marx through his blog at http://blog.smarx.com/. - Jeff Sandquist

Peter Heldens, a manager at Microsoft University in the Netherlands, recently visited the touchdevelop team in Redmond, WA. Peter wrote My Online Meetings, the popular script that allows users to join a conference call in a single script using touchdevelop. Great to meet you, Peter! Take a look at the 'My Online Meetings' script for touchdevelop. The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA. - Jeff Sandquist

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at 5 of teh winning apps from the "Your APP here" monthly contest: KrashLander NFL Pro '12 MixTapes Weave Network Dashboard   Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks! - Jeff Sandquist