Ben Riga's Deep Shift

In this episode of Lessons Learned we talk with Jones Pavan and Gurleen Randhawa of CCH about tax and accounting!  No wait stick around, that stuff can be exciting too.  Yes, really!  :) The good folks at CCH (a Wolters Kluwer company)...

There are not many solutions that can claim to have saved lives.  In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Richard Prodger of Active Web Solutions about the Windows Azure project they’ve been working on that tracks fishermen in real time . ...

One question that is often asked is how hosters can benefit from the Windows Azure Platform.  While the platform can be used to deploy many types of web apps we expect many partners including hosters to develop on top of the Windows Azure platform...

In this episode of Windows Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Paul Forney, System Architect for Invensys and Aleksey Savateyev , Senior Architect in Microsoft’s Global ISV group working with Invensys.  Invensys is well known for industrial automation...

Database tooling is important for many developers and DBAs as they manage numerous databases across the enterprise and the cloud.  In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Scott Walz, Sr. Director Product Management at Embarcadero Technologies...

I’m back with another episode of Azure Lessons Learned.  In this one I discuss building apps that need to be able to scale very highly very quickly.  Jim Zimmerman , the CTO and Lead Developer for Thuzi , walks me through the Facebook application...

In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Stephan Friedl, Chief Architect at Quark Software .  Quark (of Quark XPress fame ) has been built a new business called Quark Promote for small and medium business to design and print high-quality...

As I mentioned, over the past few months I’ve been working on a number of activities related to the Windows Azure Platform.  In particular, I’ve been working with several partners as we prepared for the PDC’09 conference.  While we were preparing...

I had been maintaining a list of Dynamics CRM-related blogs that I tried to read on a regular basis.  I thought I’d make that list available to folks in the community as I’m sure others will find that interesting.  I haven’t been maintaining...

I’ve been busy.  For the past 5 months or so I’ve been working on something completely different.  I moved out of the Dynamics world :( and into the Azure world :) . In July I was asked to help out with the PDC planning.  David Aiken ’s...

Sitting in the audience of the keynote I never had any idea how much work and how many people were involved in pulling together that one event. This year at PDC, when Ray Ozzie's keynote kicked off, I pulled out my video camera and walked around back...