Mike Kelly's Blog

For a consulting project, I’ve been playing around with getting the Skype public API to work with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) by building a DSS service that communicates with Skype. I’ve gotten this working and wanted to use the Visual Programming...

As part of a project I’m doing for a Seattle startup, I’m playing with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS).  I downloaded the 2008 release and generated a simple program to use a desktop joystick (basically a UI element displayed on the screen...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today which just finished with a panel discussion and Q&A.  Here are my notes. Q: For Dallas, do I need to use C# to access the data? A: No - it's pretty easy to use C# classes but Dallas exposes...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard Mark Kottke talk about his experiences as an app development consultant with Microsoft on migrating existing customer apps to Azure.  Here are my notes; slides and sample code are...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Aiken from the Azure team give an overview of best practices for developing applications for the cloud along with some tips and tricks.  Here are my notes; slides and sample...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Robinson from the SQL team give an overview of SQL Server for Azure.  Here are my notes; slides and sample code are to be posted later and I will update the post with them...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard Brad Calder give a quick overview of Azure data.  Here are my notes; slides and sample code are to be posted later and I will update the post with them when they are. Blobs REST...

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard Steve Marx give a lap around the platform.  Here are my notes; slides and sample code are to be posted later and I will update the post with them when they are. Idea behind Azure...