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Ken Levy |
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Ken Levy is a product planner on Microsoft's Windows Live
Platform team working on developer API services, portal, and community. Ken was previously
Microsoft's VS Data product manager which includes Visual FoxPro and the XML tools
sponsorship for Visual Studio. Ken is a long time recognized member of the FoxPro
community and has developed many high profile applications and tools in all versions
of FoxBase/FoxPro since 1986. Ken was previously the Director of Technology at an
XML-centric venture capital firm and led a team of technologists in identifying and
evaluating investment prospects while assisting portfolio companies in technology
and marketing. Ken spent over 4 years as a software engineer consulting for Microsoft
on the Visual FoxPro team from and is the developer of many components of Visual FoxPro
including the Class Browser and Component Gallery. While working as a consultant at
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s, Ken developed several public
domain open source programs including GenScrnX and other developer tools used worldwide
for in-house and commercial applications. Ken is a former technical contributing writer/editor
to many software magazines and has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences
world wide since 1992. Ken has been in front of the camera in many http://channel9.msdn.com/ videos
and is also a part-time Channel 9 team member behind the camera as the interviewer.
Ken's blog is found at http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy. |
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Windows Live Platform for Developers This session will go into details with demos on what the Windows Live Platform platform is and how it relates to developers. Details will also include how to developers and business can monetize using the various Windows Live services as well as add value to existing web, desktop, and device applications. There will be many demos showing how various Windows Live API services can be used together to create useful mashups. The demos will include API services and developer SDKs using services such as Messenger, Search, Virtual Earth (VE), Windows Live Local, Contacts, and more. There will also be details included about Microsoft's new developer-centric http://dev.live.com web site and a preview into what new services and developer offerings are coming in the future for the platform, such as the .NET based SDK for Windows Live ID authentication for integrating Windows Live services into client applications. Ken's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy/ |
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