CodeMash Precompiler Cloud Workshop Prerequisites

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If you are joining us for the intro to the cloud sessions during the CodeMash Precomplier (Windows Azure in the morning and Amazon AWS in the afternoon) then you can help us out by coming prepared to dig into code! The sessions will be part presentation, part hands on labs. While you aren’t required to bring a laptop, you’ll get much more out of the sessions if you have one available to work through the labs with (but, there might be some people willing to pair as well!). Please make sure to bring your power cord!

Also, if you don’t get all of this loaded, we’ll have the free and easily installed bits there, but having it loaded a head of time will definitely speed things along for you.

Here are the prerequisites to have loaded:

An Introduction to Windows Azure (Morning)

An Introduction to Amazon Web Services (Afternoon)

You might be thinking, “Hey, What a second! This is CodeMash, you just listed all Microsoft tools there!” . Just like CodeMash, both Windows Azure and Amazon AWS are happy to mix in multiple development stacks. Our labs and demos will be shown using Visual Studio, but don’t let that stop you from following along or trying out the cloud platforms from your Mac, or using Java, PHP and Ruby on Windows. Below are links to other SDKs for each cloud platform. Please, feel free to explore your options and load these SDKs or libraries up if you prefer them.

For Windows Azure

For Amazon AWS