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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Joe Homnick is a Microsoft Regional Director Ambassador, who is the principal owner of Homnick Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida. Joe has been selected as a featured speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed for eight years in America, Europe and Latin America, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), all Microsoft DevDays events and the Vista/Office 2007/Visual Studio 2005 Ascend/Touchdown Early Adopters program throughout the US, Europe and China. Most recently Joe has been selected by Microsoft as a "Go To" trainer for Vista, SharePoint 2007, LongHorn Server and CRM 4.0. His previous professional experience includes being an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University and a Computer Audit Specialist for KPMG.
TechTalk 25 Jun 2009

Azure Cloud Value Proposition on a Tight IT Budget

Joe Homnick writes "...The Cloud Computing approach smoothes this Cost/Utilization by allowing the enterprise to only purchase the amount of computing power that they need to meet utilization requirements. Another issue that Cloud Computing addresses is daily Periodicity of Demand. The typical demand curve in a fully utilized system looks like the following:" Read post »
Editors Picks 06 Jun 2009

Commands for Windows 7.0 Boot to VHD Feature

Joe Homnick writes "...With Windows 7.0 there is a new capability to Boot to a Virtual Machine VHD file. This is not running a virtual machine in Virtual PC or Hyper-V, rather it is running it with full hardware fidelity...Execute these commands and you have a new boot option when restarting..." Read post »
27 Apr 2009

Windows 7 Aces Memory Requirements - Processing Speed and Services

Joe Homnick writes "...The amount of memory requirements has been reduced and processing speeded up along with quite a bit of use of background services. The concept being that if you only need a service, like USB operations...only fire up that service when it is appropriate. This decreases memory size, allows for faster processing and also..." Read post »
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Joe Homnick

Homnick Systems Boca Raton, FL, US Send email to Joe Joe's blog  »
07 Jul 2009 MOLP course 6214 on Visual Studio Team System MOLP course 6214 on Visual Studio Team System
16 Jul 2009 July Users Group Meeting - Boca Raton Joe Homnick presents on VS 2010
Technical Expertise .NET Development, ASP .NET, SQL Server, Visual Basic .NET, Windows Server 2003
Years of Experience 25
Certifications MCAD, MCDBA, MCP, MCSD, MCSE, MCT
Awards Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise, Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator and Developer, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer +I, Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner and is a Florida Certified Public Accountant.
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Sales and Inventory, Project Management, Biotech applications, Engineering applications, Defense, Education, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Non-Profit