Few Good Webcasts i watched Recently

Recently, i watched a few interesting webcasts from Microsoft employees on
  1. JavaScript Patterns -Part 1
  2. Functional programming techniques with JavaScript
  3. Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagonostics
  4. SQL Server Wait Stats
  5. HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers using GeoLocation
  6. Building Thumbnail previews for your Websites
Here are the video recordings from zeollar.com



JavaScript Patterns -Part 1
Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.




Functional programming techniques with JavaScript
Rajasekharan Vengalil
Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.




FMicrosoft.WindowsAzure.Diagonostics
Saranya Sriram
Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.




SQL Server Wait Stats - Identifying Offending Queries
Pinal Dave
Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.




HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers using GeoLocation
Harish Ranganathan
Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.




Building Thumbnail previews for your Websites
Aditee Rele
Architect Advisor, Microsoft Corporation India (P) Ltd.


 

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