July, 2011

From the same folks who brought you the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles that I blogged about earlier this week, comes another gem: The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games ! Social gaming is a hot new trend that is thriving, especially in a...

On July 13, 2011, the Rock Paper Azure Grand Tournament came to a close. It was a great time helping to organize the contest with my US Cloud Connection peers, Brian Hitney & Jim O’Neil .  As part of the tournament, we gave out $8500 USD in prizes...

One pain point I hear from Windows Azure developers is around deployment times.  To the end user, when you deploy an application in Windows Azure, you’re simply uploading a relatively small “package” (.cspkg) file containing the files of your web...

Last month, my teammates Rachel Appel , G. Andrew Duthie , and Chris Bowen hosted HTML5 Web Camp events in New York and Boston . Both events “sold out” almost immediately. (So quickly that I didn’t even get a chance to post the NYC one here before registration...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Spring 2011 Series of Windows Azure Tech Jam events! The US Cloud team enjoyed traveling to Philly, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa to visit folks and deliver this fun tour of cloud computing and Windows...

I posted earlier about the Agile Camp Fire in NYC this weekend.  Word fresh from Stephen Bohlen that there will be a “Day of Agile” event coming to Philly in September.  The call for speakers is open now.  Registration opens 7/15/2011. ...

Not sure how I missed this one earlier, but the Agile Camp Fire is returning to NYC this Saturday on July 16, 2011!  There are still a limited number of spots available. If you’ve been to one of the Agile Firestarter events in New York or Philadelphia...

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge’s Grand Tournament is coming to a head on July 13th, 2011 when we will present the top 12 contestants with $8,500 in prizes. The challenge is to code a ‘bot’ that will play the childhood game Rock Paper Scissors against...

Last week, I announced the Rock Paper Azure Grand Tournament with $5000 at stake for first prize. The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is a coding contest in which you develop a “bot” to play the game of Rock Paper Scissors against other contestants’ bots. ...