February, 2010

This post will be very direct. It will get a database running in the Azure cloud as quickly as possible. There is plenty of material about why SQL Azure might be of interest and how it works. Go to Bing and type SQL Azure and you’ll get all the reasons...

In this post we are going to use an adapted Guestbook application from the Windows Azure Training Kit. This is an excellent demo because it covers all the main topics in one demo: Web roles Worker roles Storage Services Understanding A Finished Project...

What Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams When Monday, Feb 22, 2010 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm Where San Francisco Agile Meetup Group 835 Market Street, 7th Floor, Golden Gate Rooms, San Francisco http://www.sfagile.org/calendar...

I just downloaded VS 2010 RC and it is a beautiful thing – fast, clean interface – you name it. Dare I say, the best developer tool since the dawn of computing. We’ve come a long way from the days of simple editors. Downloading and Installing The first...

POCO stands for “Plain Old CLR Objects.” Many developers want to write their own POCO code and have full control over the way it is authored, yet be able to leverage the power of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. That is what this blog post is about. Support...