Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Something a little different. No mentions of web roles, nodes or queues – but interesting nevertheless. Brad Smith gave Microsoft’s vision of cloud computing devoted to the economic success of Europe. ... Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century 0 0 0
Hello World Azure in PHP Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 Building on the Windows Azure Command Line Tools blog post, I thought we could kick it up a notch and get PHP running in Azure leveraging the command line tools. The primary thing that we need to do is ... Hello World Azure in PHP 0 0 1
Azure wish list by one of the key Azure Patrons Sarang, January 1, 0001 Joannes Vermorel of Lokad Forecasting is a Azure early adopter and a sincere patron ever since I've been lurking around the Azure forums. Always ready to help and come with innovative ideas to utilize ... Azure wish list by one of the key Azure Patrons 0 0 0
SkyDrive, Google Docs access through Explorer Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 I am both a Google docs and Windows SkyDrive user, one thing however that I am always thought would help, especially with SkyDrive, as its essentially a backup tool for me is being able to access through ... SkyDrive, Google Docs access through Explorer 0 0 7
MSDN Flash Podcast 020 – David Gristwood and AWS talk Azure Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 On January 1st I switched focus to 100% Azure. My friend and colleague David Gristwood has been firmly focused on Azure through 2009 working with early adopters. We decided to record a podcast talking ... MSDN Flash Podcast 020 – David Gristwood and AWS talk Azure 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now ava... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Stonking good news. The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to all MSDN Subscribers. It will be available to my dad (who is not an MSDN Subscriber) on Wednesday ... Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now ava... 0 0 0
Green Health Solutions Juan Suero, January 1, 0001 Putting my last attempt at creating a business on the shelf... Passed to second round of grant funding but ultimately did not receive grant. We were looking to submit GHS for the first round of federal ... Green Health Solutions 0 0 2
Getting MySql Running on Azure Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 There are a few applications that I’m playing with in Windows Azure that are reliant on MySql for various reason. For example, I’m working with a group that is doing Joomla development and it’s completely ... Getting MySql Running on Azure 0 0 0
Q&A: How can I calculate the TCO and ROI when considering the... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [In the UK? Why not join http://ukazure.ning.com] Awareness of the existence of the Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator remains pretty low based on some conversations I have had lately at events. ... Q&A: How can I calculate the TCO and ROI when considering the... 0 0 0
Try Windows Azure in February and Win for the UK! Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/] I just stumbled upon some work by my US colleagues and CodeProject to create a competition around deploying ... Try Windows Azure in February and Win for the UK! 0 0 0
Q&A: Do I get charged compute hours for every role in my Wind... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/] [Check out my other QandAs] A common question I get is “Do I get charged compute hours for every role type ... Q&A: Do I get charged compute hours for every role in my Wind... 0 0 0
What news in Visual Studio 2010 Mai Nguyen, January 1, 0001 Set your ideas free Create what you can imagine, build on the strengths of your team, and open up new possibilities. · New prototyping, modeling, and visual design tools enable you to create innovative ... What news in Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
Windows Azure Command Line Tools Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 There are times that you just need to leverage the raw power that you can get from the command line. For example, if you are trying to script something or if you are on a machine that is not all tooled ... Windows Azure Command Line Tools 0 0 0
Part 3: What are your plans for using the Windows Azure Platform? Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a survey on Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform (Now closed). I promised to share the results which I will do over four posts. This is the third of those four. ... Part 3: What are your plans for using the Windows Azure Platform? 0 0 0
Real World Azure Projects – Factonomy Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/] Fellow UK Azure Evangelists David just published an interesting interview with Factonomy on why they went ... Real World Azure Projects – Factonomy 0 0 0
Free UK Azure Training Workshops in Reading and Edinburgh in Febr... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 As part of Microsoft UKs Azure Awareness Week in February (2010) we have three training workshops for partners taking place. I have added them over on the new Fans of UK Azure community site. Don’t delay ... Free UK Azure Training Workshops in Reading and Edinburgh in Febr... 0 0 0
Q&A: I have a new business idea. How can I implement it cheap... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/] I have been asked this one a few times recently. The question is often driven by the realisation that that ... Q&A: I have a new business idea. How can I implement it cheap... 0 0 0
No more "Path is too long" Sarang, January 1, 0001 Bugged by the irritating "Path is too long after being fully qualified" error while running in the Development Fabric? The solution is pretty funny and not so obvious unfortunately. The culprit here is ... No more "Path is too long" 0 0 4
Windows Azure Drive Sarang, January 1, 0001 The Azure team today released a few goodies. One of them is the OS release 1.1 and the other key release is the Azure Drive. This is brilliant implementation and will pave ways for some new patterns in ... Windows Azure Drive 0 0 1
Seven things that may surprise you about the Windows Azure Platfo... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I wrote this short article for the 27th of January edition of the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. I thought it would be useful to sneak it in here as well especially as it will be the basis of a number of upcoming ... Seven things that may surprise you about the Windows Azure Platfo... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 -- #790 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer. Shoutout: Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks explorer ... Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 -- #790 0 0 0
Check for Azure Devlopment Fabric and start if not started alread... Sarang, January 1, 0001 The Development Fabric has playing Boon or Bane for quite some time with us Azure developers. While the elevated privileges it runs under is still an unresolved issue, with a few things believed to work ... Check for Azure Devlopment Fabric and start if not started alread... 0 0 3
Do not forget the deadline to upgrade your accounts Sarang, January 1, 0001 Folks, Azure goes out of CTP this 1st of Feb. Remember to make good use of the Azure Introductory Special offers. For the MSDN subscribing crowd its even sweeter. The benefits are listed below. MSDN Subscriber ... Do not forget the deadline to upgrade your accounts 0 0 0
Q&A: What are the UK prices for the Windows Azure Platform Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Lots of folks keep asking me for UK prices and to be fair it does take a little work to find them (You need to start here and bring up this pop up) Hence for simplicity, I have copied them here (as of ... Q&A: What are the UK prices for the Windows Azure Platform 0 0 0
Part 2: How well do you know the technologies of Microsoft, Amazo... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a survey on Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform (Now closed). I promised to share the results which I will do over four posts. This is the second of those four. ... Part 2: How well do you know the technologies of Microsoft, Amazo... 0 0 0
You have 10 votes. Why not use them! www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 The Windows Azure Platform team is very keen to get your feedback on where they should be directing their efforts over the coming months. I’ve mentioned www.mygreatwindowsazureidea... in previous blog ... You have 10 votes. Why not use them! www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.... 0 0 2
NEW Tool to Ease Migration from MySQL to SQL Server Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Previews Tool to Ease Migration from MySQL to SQL Server Microsoft has released a new preview version of a tool that enables users of the MySQL database to migrate to Microsoft's SQL Server. ... NEW Tool to Ease Migration from MySQL to SQL Server 0 0 1
Results of Cloud Computing Survey – Part 1: Is Cloud releva... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a survey on Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform (Now closed). A big thanks to the 100 folks who completed the survey. I have been through the results and removed ... Results of Cloud Computing Survey – Part 1: Is Cloud releva... 0 0 0
SQL Azure - Execution Plans Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Quick note on SQL Azure... While I was performing a demo of SQL Azure at the last SQL Saturday in Tampa, I tried to pull an execution plan to see if that worked. I was happily surprised to find out that ... SQL Azure - Execution Plans 0 0 0
Channel Web 20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors Webgui, January 1, 0001 Visual WebGui was chosen by Channel Web within 20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors among the list you can also find Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft's Windows Azure and AT&T. Cloud computing ... Channel Web 20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors 0 0 0
Excellent example of explaining the details of a PaaS offering &n... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 The Windows Azure Platform is now live. It is showcased by a terrifically exciting web site which tells you what it is and makes it incredibly simple to sign up. Actually, it isn’t. We have http://www.microsoft.com/wi... ... Excellent example of explaining the details of a PaaS offering &n... 0 0 0
New Windows Azure Platform online community in the UK Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 There is a really strong interest in Cloud Computing and Azure in the UK – but it doesn’t appear to be supported by an online community. Well, at least I couldn’t find an active community. Hence I decided ... New Windows Azure Platform online community in the UK 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 -- #784 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Brett Balmer, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Greenfield, Anoop Madhusudanan, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley Shotouts: Jeremy Likness posted New Silverlight 3 Version Released (3.0.50106.0) Koen Zwikstra ... Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 -- #784 0 0 0
QandA: How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows A... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Check out my other QandAs] You would reasonably expect to be charged for the use of the Windows Azure Platform for any application you have built which is live on Azure. But you will a) want to minimise ... QandA: How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows A... 0 0 0
QandA: When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure? Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Check out my other QandAs] This question keeps coming up. Hence I will have a stab at explaining it. Nothing deployed = no charge First I think we can all happily agree that the following service on Windows ... QandA: When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure? 0 0 4
Windows Azure Platform, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I wanted to point folks at this great blog if you are interested in Cloud Computing. Janakiram MSV has been busily producing some great work in his role as a Cloud Computing Strategist. What I particularly ... Windows Azure Platform, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine... 0 0 1
Maybe see you at London CloudCamp on the 21st January 2010 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I will be popping along to CloudCamp this Thursday. I’ve been to CloudCamp once before when it coincided with Qcon London when I was a speaker in 2009. But TBH I really didn’t pay much attention last time ... Maybe see you at London CloudCamp on the 21st January 2010 0 0 0
GOOG vs. MSFT vs. NYC andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Tonight was the inaugural audience event of the newly formed New York Technology Council, and I must say the organization is off to an excellent start. The event was panel discussion focusing on technology ... GOOG vs. MSFT vs. NYC 0 0 2
Azure storage partitioning strategy question Juan Suero, January 1, 0001 I asked someone the following question.. in the following code... ( from MSDN Mag 2010 issue ( thomas erl )) [Description("PartitionKey=... Rowkey=AccountId")] public class UserAccountBalance : TableServiceEntity ... Azure storage partitioning strategy question 0 0 0
Two New AppFabric Related Webcasts Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve added two new webcasts to CloudCasts looking at the two different parts of AppFabric (server and cloud). Brian Loesgen takes a look at “Extending a BizTalk ESB On-Ramp into the Cloud” using the Azure ... Two New AppFabric Related Webcasts 0 0 0
Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Window... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 You can learn the Windows Azure Platform and develop against it locally on your own machine using only the SDK and a copy of Visual Studio (details here) – but at some point you will want to deploy your ... Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Window... 0 0 2
Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 You can learn the Windows Azure Platform and develop against it locally on your own machine using only the SDK and a copy of Visual Studio (details here) – but at some point you will want to deploy your ... Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform ... 0 0 1
Windows Azure Accelerated Training Workshop March 30th in London Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I was just “reviewing” a Windows Azure Platform developer video from Adrian Jakeman of QA and spotted at the end that they had various Azure courses up and running or in development. Given the video was ... Windows Azure Accelerated Training Workshop March 30th in London 0 0 0
Designing an application to work with SQL Azure Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Using SQL Azure for your applications is relatively straightforward. All you need is... a connection string... and since SQL Azure uses TDS as its underlying communication protocol, just like SQL Server, ... Designing an application to work with SQL Azure 0 0 0
SQL Saturday in Tampa - January 23rd Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Just in case you are around... please come to the SQL Saturday in Tampa, FL on Saturday January 23rd. I will be there!!! And many other SQL Server speakers. Visit http://www.sqlsaturday.com/... ... SQL Saturday in Tampa - January 23rd 0 0 0
Cloud Computing and Windows Azure Platform Survey – just 9 ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I am keen to get a feel for the current awareness and desire around Cloud Computing and specifically the Windows Azure Platform. Hence I have created a short and hopefully very quick to complete survey: ... Cloud Computing and Windows Azure Platform Survey – just 9 ... 0 0 0
My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Having skim watched many (but not all) the Azure sessions from PDC I thought I would call out my top 5 sessions I recommend you find some time to look at if you already know the basics. Tips and Tricks ... My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09 0 0 0
Windows Identity Federation Training Kit for Windows Azure Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 When I joined Microsoft in 1996 I worked with a certain Hervey Wilson before he headed off to join the product group in Redmond. Last week I was skim-watching a bunch of Azure content from PDC and who ... Windows Identity Federation Training Kit for Windows Azure 0 0 0
My Mix 10 Community Vote Ballot D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So with Mix 10 approaching, and the voting for the community submissions open, I’m sure you’re wondering “D’Arcy, who are YOU voting for?” since obviously my recommendations and backing is GOLDEN. So this ... My Mix 10 Community Vote Ballot 0 0 1
Change of focus in 2010 to the Windows Azure Platform Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I have been dabbling with the Windows Azure Platform for most of 2009 (Check out my past posts) but at the end of December my boss Marc H gave me the go ahead to be “full time” on Azure in 2010. This was ... Change of focus in 2010 to the Windows Azure Platform 0 0 2