Note: for me this service has sometimes not worked today (24th Jan). I have reported it to the events team. Next session is Wednesday 10am – Designing for the Cloud. 44WW076 – Six Weeks of Azure – Weekly check-in (AM recording 23.01.2012) “The one where the all internet connectivity vanished with 5 mins to go” [...] ...read more

Now available on SkyDrive. Check out Week1 for slides and “Webinar Notes” for todays notes. We will expand the Notes a little further tomorrow once we go through the Q&A. ...read more

The webinar join links are now live on the website http://sixweeksofazure.wordpress.com/joinwebinar/  We start at 12pm today (Monday 23rd January) but we will have the meeting open during the morning. Hence I would encourage you to join now to check your PC connects fine. See you all at 12pm Eric and the team ...read more

Turned out to be simplicity itself (thanks to this sweet tutorial). Great work team on the Windows Azure SDK for node.js and some lovely Powershell integration. Which in the management portal shows up as: Currently running (Thursday 19th Jan 2012) at http://ericnelnode1.cloudapp.net/ with the exciting output of: Related Links: Source code for SDK available on [...] ...read more

Next Monday we start Six Weeks of Windows Azure with: The 12pm opening session will look ahead at what you can expect from the six weeks and will offer advice on how best to make use of the time. It will also share tips, tools and resources to help you get going from day one. [...] ...read more

Ashwin Raghavan contacted me via this blog about the dissertation he is working on for his MBA and whether I would be able to answer some questions for him. I thought his questions were bang on. I’ll share my answers later … but for now, ponder on these In your view, do you agree with [...] ...read more

This is a very handy utility when working with web apis – I assumed I was last to discover it, turns out I’m not Hurl makes HTTP requests. Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others. Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs And… as is the trend these days… [...] ...read more

In December we announced many improvements to Windows Azure… a month on and I was reflecting upon which were my favourites and which had resonated best with our early adopters. There were a lot to choose from but I’ve narrowed it down to three in reverse order: 3. SQL Azure Database Size increased to 150GB [...] ...read more

One of the partners helping us deliver Six Weeks of Windows Azure is Solidsoft. This graphic made me smile – nice use of Metro UX. Well done folks. And if you would like to know more about Metro, check out: Windows Dev Center – Metro Style App Development Channel 9 Windows 8 UX Video 8 [...] ...read more

Just been checking the stats for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk and we just crossed the 10,000 views mark. Which should mean lots of folks turn up on day one Related Links: Register today for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd and runs for six weeks with webinars and online surgeries every Monday and Wednesday around technical and commercial topics ...read more

A new video series has kicked off over on the Trustworthy Computing blog focused on Cloud Fundamentals. This series is targeted at Chief Security Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, as well as VPs and Directors. If you care about topics such as: Compliance, audit, and certifications Benchmarks and evaluation standards Process transparency Update and system [...] ...read more

The one things that never changes when it comes to “the wonderful world of cloud computing” is… that everything keeps changing. I have previously posted about my negative first experience with the OnLive service for delivering Windows based games (Cloud Computing is full). Ultimately I never did get on with OnLive – but to be [...] ...read more

1 hour and 15 minutes of Steve… covering off: Windows Phone (12mins in) -  new devices from HTC (Titan II) and Nokia (Lumia 900) Ultra notebooks (26mins in) – thin and light and … powerful Focus on Metro style design … Continue reading → ...read more

I posted on App Stores and marketplaces in November to raise awareness amongst UK ISVs of what I think will be a game changer in how consumers and businesses purchase applications for Windows in the future. Since then the Windows … Continue reading → ...read more

Registration is now open for the 2012 edition of the Windows Phone Camp (powered by Tech.Days UK). The Windows Phone Camps are learning events which will show you how to learn and build Windows Phone apps. You can work on … Continue reading → ...read more

The (almost) final agenda is now available and a little context on what still needs to happen can be found in this related post.  It is not too late to sign up – we kick this all off on January … Continue reading → ...read more

ICS Solutions are one of the partners helping us deliver www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd. They also deliver regular free seminars on Windows Azure and the next takes place on February 7th 2012. Mark Hirst (an old friend of mine) … Continue reading → ...read more

I just wanted to give a brief update on www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd. Preparations to make this into a great six weeks for UK companies are now well progressed and we are nicely on track to have a superb … Continue reading → ...read more