For those of you who didn't manage to get out to Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles in October and missed all the Windows Azure content, don't despair -- the MSDN Developer Conference is coming to a city near you.  A nice feature of MSDN DevCon is that you get a lot of the same content from PDC but it's only $99.00.  (Trust me.  That's a lot less $$.)

So, be sure to sign up and, if you end up at the Boston event, come by my session and say 'hi'.  I'll be doing the "Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Services" talk.

Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Services
In this session we will take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session.

MSDN Developer Conference Cities and Dates:

12/9/08 -- Houston, TX
12/11/08 -- Orlando, FL
12/16/08 -- Atlanta, GA
1/13/09 -- Chicago, IL
1/13/09 -- Minneapolis, MN
1/16/09 -- Washington, DC
1/20/09 -- New York, NY
1/22/09 -- Boston, MA
1/22/09 -- Detroit, MI
1/26/09 -- Dallas, TX
2/19/09 -- San Francisco, CA

-Ben