GDC 09 is over now!

The Gulf Developers Conference is over now, it was a great experience. I met some really nice people who also happen to be very experts, and this could not hurt :)

I gave 5 sessions during the GDC:

1. Cloud Computing Key Note; that was a last addition. I showed a simple demo about creating and deploying an ASP.NET web role on windows Azure

2. Cloud Computing Chalk-talk. It was a detailed discussion about cloud computing in general and i showed detailed demos about Windows Azure, SQL Azure, .NET Services, and Live Services. This was an amazing session with people eager to discuss and share their ideas. Time passed by very quickly.

3. A Lap Around .NET 4.0. This was a very packed session. A lot of features to be explained in 75 minutes. I showed 1-Click web deployment, Ajax 4.0, Parallel Computing (my personal favorite), Entity Framework, Data Services (REST is sooo cool!), CLR Type Equivelance, and Dynamic Data. My head was spinning towards the end!

4. Building SOA Applications with WCF and WF 4.0. Focused mainly on WCF advantages and why to use it. Then I created an example of a SOA app based on WF 4.0 Services (that's also covering WCF) and Data Services.

5. A comparison of Integration Technologies Chalk-talk. The main focus was BizTalk Server due to the audiences requests, but i also discussed WF-Services and the new Windows Server AppFabric. This was a cool session as somewhere during the middle of the session, 6 experts were suddenly added as guests to the session and I had to manage and give each one a role to perform...wondering why? MBC tv channel came to shoot and they wanted to create the ultimate Chalk-talk environment :)

Anyway, most of the materials are posted on DevLifestyle.

I will post about all these technologies in the near future...so stay tuned