December, 2011

A few years back… pre-iPhone era (you can tell from the content), I wrote a post about the Cinderella dilemma suburbanites experience when visiting New York City in the evening.  After rush-hour, the options for catching a train out of the city are...

On December 10, 2011, a new version of WindowsAzure.com went live.  There are many improvements and a ton of new things to check out.  My teammate Jim O’Neil recently covered a key improvement in getting started with The New, Improved No-Risk...

While I was on the road in early December with the US Cloud team delivering Windows Azure Dev Camps, our colleagues were doing the same with the HTML5 Game Camps .  I got a chance to attend the NYC stop at Columbia University on December 9th. ...

This just in from my teammate Bob Hunt … The Windows Phone User Group scheduled for this evening, December 19th, 2011 has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.  Please check back soon to see if we can have the same topic in January. Original...

Well, five cities and two weeks on the road and the East Coast Windows Azure Dev Camps have come to a close. The tour started in Raleigh, NC on 12/5, and then made its way through Farmington, CT (Hartford), New York City, Malvern, PA (Philly), and Chevy...

It’s Friday night!  That means the Rock Paper Azure Challenge’s Fall 2011 Sweepstakes has drawn to a close and someone has won a $5,000 trip to Cancun, Mexico!  At 6pm EST this evening, we closed the Fall Sweepstakes round to new bot entries...

An interesting tech geek brawl seems to have broken out in the blogosphere over the past 24 hours between MG Seigler and Joshua Topolsky .  I find it entertaining.  Both make good points.  Both made a choice to use profanity for emotional...

Friday is here!  And, at the time I’m writing this, you still have just under 5 hours left to take the Rock Paper Azure Challenge for a chance to win a $5,000 trip to Cancun, Mexico!  In the interest of transparency and disclosure, my teammate...

Right after the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I asked folks how their “Upgrade Your Parents Browser Weekend” went. The “upgrade your parents meme” started that weekend with a post from Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic.  The notion being, when...

I feel like I’m on technology overload this week.  Fresh off of a 5 city US east coast tour delivering the Windows Azure Dev Camp events , I got to listen into Scott Guthrie’s “Learn Windows Azure” live online yesterday.  During the eight hour...

On Friday December 9, 2011, Microsoft hosted an HTML5 Game Camp at Columbia University.  Folks came out to learn about HTML5 from my colleagues G Andrew Duthie and Lindsay Lindstrom .  Later in the day, the campers hacked away and built games...

Week #3 of the Rock Paper Azure Challenge ended at 6pm EST on 12/9/2011. That means another five contestants just won $50 Best Buy gift cards!  Congratulations to the following players for having the Top 5 bots for Week #3: AmpaT choi Protist RockMeister...

In a short while I will be posting the winners of Week #3 of the Rock Paper Azure Challenge Fall 2011 Edition. I posted the Week #2 winners last Friday . However, we’ve had a few folks wonder who the Week #1 winners were. Apologies for not posting...

This just in… “The Gu” (a.k.a. Scott Guthrie ) just announced on his blog that next Tuesday, December 13th, 2011, that there will be a live “Learn Windows Azure” event for developers.  The day long event promises to be a great way to learn about...

Saw this in my Twitter feed this morning and thought I’d share wider here on my blog… Shawn Wildermuth has just published a book on Windows Phone development.  According to Shawn’s post this morning , “Essential Windows Phone 7.5” is now available...

It’s Friday night, that means another five Rock Paper Azure Challenge contestants just got $50 Best Buy gift cards! Week #2 of the challenge ended at 6pm EST on 12/2/2011. Congratulations to the following players for having the Top 5 bots for Week...

I Last month, I posted here about the upcoming Windows Azure Dev Camps I will be hosting with my teammates Brian Hitney and Jim O’Neil.  Just a reminder that we’re kicking our 5 city tour off on Monday down in Raleigh, NC at North Carolina State...

I don’t watch TV that often. But when I do, it’s usually via a DVR where I skip through the commercials.  So, I’m normally oblivious to whatever the trendy ads are that people are talking about at the water cooler.  There’s one exception to...