Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [ 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Many, many months back UK based Alex Mackey (Australia now has him) mentioned that he was starting work on a book about Visual Studio 2010 which would also be his first book. I remember...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Which is fantastic news. I’m really looking forward to it especially as the UK team are planning to put on a great week for UK developers with the help of the fantastic UK community...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink An interview with colleague Paul Foster recorded end of December. In the first 5 minutes we talk about lego, snow, cider and robots. We do then eventually get onto the topic of Windows...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I love to see new user groups created but as a Geordie I'm especially pleased to hear of the creation of North East Bytes (NEBytes) - http://www.nebytes.net .  The intention is to help...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink In June 2009 we created a survey for UK developers to tell us how they prefer to learn about technology which we used as input into planning for a number of activities in the UK in...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink 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...