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New Microsoft products released at the Professional Developers Conference 2009

Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Azure Platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, thus making Windows Azure and SQL Azure as core elements of the company’s cloud services strategy.

In addition, along with Windows Azure Platform, Microsoft has brought up lots of new technology like the Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure platform AppFabric, ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and many others.

There is so much new stuff that many developers confessed they are having a hard time to get up to speed with all the new codenames that Microsoft just announced. However, the most important thing we want to focus on is the benefits of the new technology for us and our clients.

First, AppFabric will significantly improve websites’ caching, performance and monitoring capability. It will also improve scalability, reliability and performance of complex applications, regardless of where an application will be deployed. This means our clients' websites will perform better, and will have an advanced level of scalability and reliability.

The newly ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta helps to reuse the code through easier implementation of unit tests, thus increasing websites’ performance by reducing the output HTML. We are already using ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta in projects run at Propeople.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4.0 increases development productivity by providing language enhancements and new improved libraries. Also, Visual Studio 2010, specifically Team Foundation Server 2010, will enhance our Application Lifecycle Management with better tracking and reporting tools, as well as improved work item management and integration with third party systems.

This is for the first time when Windows Azure is announced to support deploying of virtual machines. This will help EPiServer and SiteFinity clients to get unprecedented availability and scale up and down performance/capacity on demand depending on their current needs and on a demand-oriented price.

Finally, Microsoft released the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta suite that is available for download today. Propeople will be evaluating the beta in the next few months and we will be ready for the official release in the beginning of next year. This will give Propeople and our clients’ competitive advantage in resource and project planning, and will increase human resources utilization and efficiency.

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EPiServer Gadget Contest 2009

EPiServer World is currently running its Gadget Contest 2009, awarding great prizes for the most useful and technically excellent EPiServer CMS 6 dashboard gadgets.

All you have to do is to enter your gadgets in the contest by submitting them between October 19 and November 30 to EPiServer World. All entries will be rated and commented by members of EPiServer World, but the final decision will be made by a competent jury. The winners will be announced in a week after the deadline of the contest, November 30, 23:59.

Submitted gadgets must run on EPiServer CMS 6 CPT2 and if the gadget is integrated with external systems, these systems must be publicly available (i.e. anyone using/installing the gadget must be able to set up access to the system).

The best of the best will be awarded based on five main factors: (1) coolness of the overall concept; (2) usefulness, (3) technical quality; (4) openness: submit your gadget as open source; (5) time to market: submit your solution early.

The first prize of the contest is a Samsung 42", Full HD TV, the second prize is a Sony PlayStation 3 Slim, the third prize is an Apple iPod Nano 16Gb, and all runners-up will be awarded a 12-month Spotify Premium subscription.

All details about the contest are available on the EPiServer CMS 6 Gadget Contest 2009 official website.

Happy hacking and good luck!

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Outstanding EPiServer websites

EPiServer is a proprietary web content management system (CMS) used for managing information on an intranet, extranet or a public website. EPiServer is based on .NET framework technology.

EPiServer is one of the fastest growing proprietary web content management systems. More than 8,500 websites worldwide use EPiServer, and every day two new sites built on EPiServer go live.

This showcase contains over 30 outstanding EPiServer websites to help you discover the possibilities of the EPiServer CMS for your website. Enjoy.

Oriflame

Renault Sweden

Farnborough College of Technology

Fans1

Danske Fysioterapeuter

The Mazda6

SwedenInTouch

Clip-Lok

Företagsamheten

Beijer Byggmaterial

DublinBus

Eurowoman

Navman

Hjemmet

Bondeliv

VSGroup

X-Series

BDP

Monocle

FitLiving

Securitas

Toshiba UK Home Entertainment

JSA Group

Neonet

Nocom

Skandia Banken

MSB

Tasteline

Topkani

Saco

Svensk Handel

Spillers Feeds

Cision

BusinessStrata

Do you know any other outstanding EPiServer websites? Share them with us.

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Welcome to Propeople’s new blog.

There are two great news at Propeople today. First, we re-launched our blog because we are committed to continuously communicate with our friends, supporters, partners and the community. This blog will not only be a way to present and share our projects, products and experience but also a means to gain your feedback, to find out about your thoughts about what we are doing.

Propeople blog is your ultimate gateway to the backstage of web-development. Here you will find lots of exclusive information and original and quality resources about web-design, CMS, Drupal, Microsoft EPiServer, virtual communities, e-commerce, blogging and Web 2.0. Here you will be able to read insightful reports from important web events and unique interviews with the best web experts and developers, as well as to ask your question and receive all the answers you need.

Second, Propeople has a new team member that will be taking care of the blog. I, Mihai Moscovici, am the new Propeople blogger. I started blogging more than two years ago and have developed several blogging start-up projects.

Recently I have earned my M.A. in Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington, and already had the chance to integrate into the corporate world while working as a Media assistant at IOM. However, when offered the opportunity, I was more than glad to accept to become a fulltime blogger.
I and the Propeople developer and executive team we will do our best to make this blog an extraordinary experience for every single visitor.

Now, subscribe to our RSS feed in order to be updated each time we have something new for you. Also, comment and tell us your opinion, let us know about your suggestions and expectations for the new Propeople blog.

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