Pablo Castro on Astoria
Pablo Castro from the SQL Server Product Group at Microsoft talks about his work with Astoria, an infrastructure for bringing web technologies and data sources together. Astoria uses the Entity Framework, which Pablo is also involved with.
Guests:
Pablo Castro
Pablo Castro is a Software Architect in the Data Programmability team, part of the SQL Server group at Microsoft. He has contributed to various areas of SQL Server over the years, and is currently working on how to make data and the web work better together. Before joining Microsoft Pablo worked on distributed inference systems for credit scoring/risk analysis and before that he spent time designing and building development tools and frameworks for groupware applications, back when "groupware" was a buzzword.
Links:
- Brad Abrams: Do not implemet ICloneable! http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2003/04/09/49935.aspx
- Astoria http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/Default.aspx
- Pablo Castro's Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/pablo/
- Infusion NYC Tour http://www.intellectualhedonism.com/2006/08/16/FreeApartmentInNYCForOneYearOnTopOfANewYorkSalary.aspx