Archive for November, 2008
MSCommunity group in Split live again
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Finally, after 11 months without meeting, we have managed to start MSCommunity group in Split. With support of Microsoft Croatia, Croatian association of programmers (HUPRO), SoftDevNet group, MS SQL & Developers group and Microsoft Student Partners, on Thursday we had meeting at my college. We had 73 attendees, which is great number, and two lectures. [...]
Type 1 virtualization
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008A third type of virtualization technology available today is Type 1 VMM, or hypervizor technology. A hypervisor is layer of software that sits just above the hardware and beneath one or more operating systems. Its primary purpose is to provide isolated execution environments, called partitions, withing which virtual machines containing guest OSs can run. Each [...]
Hybrid virtualization
Friday, November 21st, 2008Let’s continue with our virtualization school for beginners. In my previous post, I have explained Type 2 virtualization. In this post, I’ll give you simple schema and description of Hybrid virtualization. In this virtualizaton type, both host OS and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) run directly on the hardware, but with different levels of access to [...]
TechEd vs. Windays
Monday, November 17th, 2008As I said in my previous post, I’ll try to compare Teched with Windays in several categories. I participated in both conferences and I’ll try to be objective. About conferences: Teched for developers was held in Barcelona, and next year it’s moving to Berlin. It is biggest Microsoft’s conference in Europe (around 5000 delegates), primary [...]
Second report from TechEd
Saturday, November 15th, 2008This morning at 05:00 I came back from Barcelona to my apartment, so now it’s time for second (and final) report from TechEd. In my first report from Tech Ed, I was writing about first 2,5 days in Barcelona. I stopped at meeting for Microsoft Student Partners. So, after we have met, I asked Oliver, [...]
First report from TechEd
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Hi everyone. As you know from my previous post, I am at the TechEd for developers conference in Barcelona. Darko Jovisic from Microsoft Croatia and me came to Barcelona on Sunday. After checking-in in hotel, we went to register for the conference. Every delegate gets a bag for laptop, and inside there is some promotional materials [...]
TechEd Developers – I’ll be there
Friday, November 7th, 2008Every year Microsoft Croatia sends one student partner to Microsoft TechEd Developers conference. They do that to reward that student partner for being Microsoft student partner, and for helping Microsoft student partners program being better and more efficient. This year they decided to send ME to Barcelona. I was very suprised and happy when I [...]
Can’t wait to try Windows 7
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008You already know that Microsoft gave pre-beta version of Windows 7 to attendes of PDC. I saw many screenshots, and many reviews of this new operating system, and I can’t wait to try it. I haven’t read any bad review, everyone says that Windows 7 is great, that it has great new things, great user [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
Saturday, November 1st, 2008In last few days I was so busy and I couldn’t find some time to write about new great Microsoft’s product. It’s called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Basically, it is operating system that looks just like Windows Server Core, but instead having 9 roles like Core, it has only one – Hyper-V. So, this product [...]