Please note the different location.
There is no question that cloud computing is here to stay. This meetup is designed to help the PHP developer understand the architecture and capability of the Windows Azure Platform (Azure).
Azure has been designed from the ground up to be interoperable with multiple languages, developer tooling, frameworks, and protocols. This meetup will outline a developer-focused overview of this new platform and the cloud computing services that can be used either together or independently to build highly scalable applications. As the meetup unfolds, we’ll explore data storage, SQL Azure, and the basics of deployment with Windows Azure. Bruno will also address the business case of Azure and provide some examples of how the cloud is there to solve real business problems. Finally, Bruno will provide concrete examples of how the average PHP developers can use Eclipse and other freely available tools to create Azure-enabled applications.

Speaker Bio:
Bruno Terkaly (blog | website) a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft covering northern California. He has been a presenter and instructor in 10 countries, including Asia, Canada, Latin America, Europe as well as cities too numerous to list throughout the US. Bruno also has experience as a Rapid Response Engineer at Microsoft where he helped Premier Customers with Advanced Debugging techniques and performing overnight, emergency fixes to production systems under massive pressure. Bruno has coded in many languages, SDK, Frameworks, and operating systems, including DOS, Linux, UNIX, and of course, Windows. Bruno still find times to use VI as his editor when he isn’t coding in Visual Studio.

Please note that this event will be hosted at SF-Microsoft, 835 Market St (@4th) on the 7th floor.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00: Doors open, food & socializing
7:00 - 7:10: Announcements
7:15 - 8:30: Presentation
8:30 - 9:00: Questions
9:00 - 10:00: Open discussion
10:00 - ???: Beers somewhere?