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Three days of FREE conferences on the latest technologies from Microsoft – without even needing to get out of your pjs Windows Azure Online Conference / Tuesday 4 October, 3-5pm Register for this event here / Click here for more … Continue reading → ...read more

Although the BUILD conference was primarily about Windows 8, there was still a lot of great sessions on Windows Azure. Now… how do we collectively find the time to watch them Overview Getting started with Windows Azure by Brian Prince … Continue reading → ...read more

One interesting example of cloud computing is the OnLive (http://onlive.co.uk)  gaming service which went live in the UK today. And… must have proved to be very popular… And alas, not as elastic as one might have hoped Followed by: ...read more

There is a new Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8. Which is cool. The kit includes templates and samples to start using some of the new features of Windows 8 in your Windows Azure applications – and from a Windows … Continue reading → ...read more

Last week while I was on holiday in Seville, sipping sangria and enjoying full sun and 37 degrees (actually I was hiding in the shadows), we made a few small announcements at the BUILD conference. Actually we made lots of … Continue reading → ...read more

Just stumbled across this work from Alik. He has grouped together resources for those moments when you need answers quickly. Thanks Alik. Windows Azure Resources For Under Fire Scenarios SQL Azure Resources For Under Fire Scenarios Windows Azure ACS Resources … Continue reading → ...read more

My Lenovo W520 (nice machine by the way) now has the Windows 8 Developer Preview running on it. After 30mins of use can I just say … wow! A 4.8 GB Download and setting up boot from VHD got me: … Continue reading → ...read more

I will be presenting “Azure goodness” at another (no doubt) excellent BizSpark camp at the end of the month. The plan is to create a new session for this event, provisionally “The 10 most asked questions about Windows Azure” (with … Continue reading → ...read more

Yesterday I posted on SQL Azure Backup from Red-Gate but I forgot to mention another handy tool they have in BETA – http://www.queryanywhere.com/. This is a zero install application (which one could call a “web site” ) and is a … Continue reading → ...read more

Last week I finally got round to trying out the beta of a new tool from Red-Gate software – SQL Azure Backup. It is an example of one of those tools that just makes you smile – small download, no … Continue reading → ...read more

Yey – we now have a much better way to navigate the Windows Azure site. I have a sneaky suspicion this is a direct outcome of Scott Guthries move to the Windows Azure team. Either way, thanks all – it … Continue reading → ...read more

I stumbled upon the wordpress blog of Iain Hunter last week whilst moving my own over to wordpress. I was interested to find that Iain is currently in the process of moving an MVC3 application to Windows Azure and has … Continue reading → ...read more

Last week it felt like every colleague and customer I bumped into had just come back from visiting our Dublin Datacentre – and every one of them was blown away by the experience. I on the other hand was not … Continue reading → ...read more

In September we released the first CTP of the Workflow Foundation Activity Pack for Windows Azure. It includes activities which you can “call” from your Workflows in Workflow Foundation 4.0. It can be found on the CodePlex page and is … Continue reading → ...read more

Ever wondered when AJAX first appeared? When Netscape Navigator stopped? When HTML4 came into existence? Then you should pop over to the excellent Evolution of the Web site. Related Links: Back to the future with HTML, JavaScript and CSS – … Continue reading → ...read more

If you are a developer looking to take advantage of cloud computing, but you haven’t yet taken the plunge, this free day of training is the quickest way to get up-to-speed with Microsoft’s offering; Windows Azure. We’ll take you from … Continue reading → ...read more

I haven’t had a chance to play with them yet (downloading now) – but these three tools from Quest look very interesting and worth sharing “un-tried” . Also (IMHO) it looks to me like the discussion forums could do with … Continue reading → ...read more

The release candidate for Silverlight 5 is now available for download over on the Silverlight.NET site.  Check out the new features and then head over to http://www.silverlight.net/downloads where you will find: Silverlight 5 RC Developer Runtime for Windows Silverlight 5 … Continue reading → ...read more

42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything 42 also happens to be the number of days in six weeks. And in six weeks you can do a lot… Find out more (ok – a tiny bit more…) … Continue reading → ...read more

While pulling together this post on the August release of the Windows Azure Tools I noted that the ASP.NET MVC 3 template included “the new universal ASP.Net providers that support SQL Azure”. Which made me pause and think … “What … Continue reading → ...read more

Back in 1996 I joined Microsoft to primarily work on SQL Server. By 1997 I was heavily involved in the “Browser wars” – and spent a lot of time exploring and talking on IE, HTML, DHTML (yey!), VBScript (cough!), JScript … Continue reading → ...read more

Downloadable through the Web Platform Installer this update adds some very nice features. Profile applications running in Windows Azure With profiling support in the Windows Azure Tools you can easily detect performance bottlenecks in your application while it is running … Continue reading → ...read more