An Introduction to the Microsoft Live Framework - Mark Freedman
Live Mesh is Microsoft's solution to allow users to access their applications, and store and synchronize their data across multiple systems and the Web. The Live Framework is the programming API behind Live Mesh. It provides a consistent framework and interface for developing with Live Services from a variety of platforms, programming languages, applications, and devices. With the Live Framework, you can build applications that consume Live Services data that span across devices and the Web.
The Live Framework (LiveFX) is a comprehensive effort by Microsoft to include client software and cloud services, working online and offline, with automatic synchronization. It manages data, applications and devices, for both consumer and enterprise scenarios. Its goal is to keep users in complete control of their data and applications. It's built on standard protocols, such as HTTP / REST and AtomPub, and includes a consistent API for .NET and other platforms. It's built on these open standards to invite community API kits to be built by third parties. Microsoft already provides APIs for other platforms, such as JavaScript.
LiveFX is a rather large topic, involving the API, the Live Operating Environment, the resource model behind the Mesh, identity services, and synchronization services, among others. So this session will be more of an introduction to the overall picture of what LiveFX can provide for developers and end-users.
Mark Freedman has over 25 years of software development and IT experience, and has been a key player in three startups since the 1990s. He's a co-founder of both the Fairfield / Westchester .NET and the Fairfield / Westchester SQL Server user groups, and is a strong proponent of life-long learning. He's been programming since junior high school in the mid-1970s, and has recently been spending much of his spare time (and sleep) diving back into development, since his full-time role as Senior Software Director at Webloyalty.com doesn't give him much time to do so during waking hours. Mark's life goal is to change the world for the better through software, and is on a journey to figure out exactly how.
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Location:
University of Connecticut
One University Place
Stamford, CT 06901
Event start: 6/2/2009 6:00:00 PM