IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink WordPress is enormously popular for blogs and full websites thanks to an awesome eco system which has built up around it, the simplicity (relatively) of getting it up and running plus...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Like many others signed up to the Windows Azure Platform, I received an email overnight detailing the upcoming database size changes for SQL Azure. I know from our work with early adopters...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink At Web Directions last week in London (10th and 11th June 2010) I promised several folks I would put up a blog post to more information on IE 9. True to my word (albeit a little later...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink A couple of weeks back I was at Web Directions manning a stand showing off Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 (check out a post I did at the time including videos to watch on IE9...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink This question has come up a lot in recent weeks as early adopters move from prototyping with the platform to actually needing to deliver real applications. Whilst fundamentally you...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I’m very pleased to report I have managed to slip past the quality police and get to speak for the third year in a row at the excellent Software Architect conference in London. Which...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On Monday (21st June) we had our last Live Meeting for the 6 weeks of Windows Azure training virtual training we have been running out of Microsoft UK. Monday pretty much hit the mark...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink One of the “warts” on Windows Azure development has been that once your application was deployed to the cloud, if things went wrong it was pretty tough to figure out the root problem...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Short answer: Don’t! Just kidding :-) Long answer: I believe it is the same process as for other Microsoft Online Services – but I have never tried it. Hence please post a comment if...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I previously mentioned I was working on a community authored eBook for the Windows Azure Platform. Well, today I assembled the 20 articles that made it through to the end of the review...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink This is (almost) a straight copy and paste but represents an important announcement worthy of a little more “exposure” :-) Starting August 1, 2010, we will release a new SQL Azure Development...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Mark Juras of GreatMigrations.com kindly sent me an article on gmStudio which I have posted on my old VB focused goto100 site. gmStudio is a programmable VB6/ASP/COM re-engineering...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink A new community has popped onto my radar, created and delivered by James Burns, a top chap I have known for many, many years. The aim of the community is to foster dialogue between...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink The pricing for Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) was announced last week . The prices are: £0.091 per GB transferred from North America & Europe locations £0.1213 per...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On Monday at Tech▪Ed 2010 we announced new stuff (I like new stuff) that “showcases our continued commitment to deliver value, flexibility and control of data through data cloud services...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink short answer : Quite probably, as SQL Azure is very similar to SQL Server longer answer: Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) that work with SQL Server are likely but not guaranteed to...