The Victoria .NET Developers Association welcomes Mike Culver, Developer Evangelist from Amazon.com!
Mike Culver joined Amazon Web Services after almost eight years in evangelism at Microsoft, where he saw .NET move from a provocative idea to the preeminent development platform for serious development. During that time, Mike managed a team of evangelists in Microsoft’s Developer Division (and later in Developer and Platform Evangelism) that were responsible for a number of high-profile implementations of .NET, ranging from innovative Compact Framework applications for devices to complex mission-critical applications such as the City of London’s Traffic Congestion Project. As an Amazon Evangelist, Mike works in the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services. In that capacity he once again helps developers take advantage of cutting-edge technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications.
Title: "Developing Applications Against Amazon.com's S3 Web Services"
Description: What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon's S3 Web Services, and feature a code demonstration showing how .NET developers are able to easily build managed clients for these services.
Amazon spent ten years and over $1 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s retail business. AWS has now launched eleven services with open API’s for developers to build applications, with the result that over 160,000 developers have registered on Amazon’s developer site to create applications based on these services (if you think “shopping”, you’re in for a shock).
This session will focus on two things: (a) an overview of what Amazon has built to allow developers to innovate, and (b) show how you can build a Windows Explorer-style interface for Amazon's S3 storage service, using Visual Studio 2005.
Date/Time: Tuesday November 7, 2006 from 6:30-10pm
Location: University of Victoria, New Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room ECS660 see map
Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Nov 7th Event"