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I wrote a cryptography post quite some time ago which has proven quite popular. I thought I’d make a cartoon video of it so you could just sit back and enjoy it without having to take an active part in “reading” it… You can always just go through the...

I gave 2 talks on pop-up labs at the May VMUG meeting in London. This is the second one (but the talks were basically the same).  How to create a pop-up lab in Windows Azure with demos of SharePoint and IIS pop-up labs using Powershell to automate...

This is a brilliant example of 2 key Azure workloads: predictable-bursting and unpredictable-bursting. In the horse caring calendar there are big races such as The Grand National and Royal Ascot (that’s the one where everybody gets dressed up and outrageous...

If you spent a couple of hours building your SharePoint Pop-Up Lab, you’ll want an efficient way of quickly popping it up and popping it back down again. This video gives click-by-click, line-by-line instructions on how to use the resources you’ve already...

Increasingly, pop-up labs are being used by more and more people. They are pre-configured, self-contained lab environments. This click-by-click video shows you how to build a SharePoint 2010 pop-up lab with SQL Server, AD and a SharePoint Server Farm...

Whether you’re an experienced developer with years of programming experience, or you’ve never written a line of code in your life, this video shows just how easy it is to use the ZipApp tool to create beautiful apps that can bring in all your content...

We’re running another camp for IT Pros who need to get up to speed with Windows Azure. At the end of the day you’ll walk away from the camp with a complete Sharepoint infrastructure deployed with AD, SQL Server and a Sharepoint Farm of 2 servers. It’s...

I notice so many people using the terms “Windows Azure VM Role” and “Windows Azure Virtual Machines” interchangeably; as if they are the same thing. They’re not. And maybe that’s what describes a tiny bit of the confusion regarding the death of VM Role...

I thought this would be interesting since WIndows Azure VMs and Virtual Networks were released as a Generally Available (GA ) service With the diagrams live-drawn in “cartoony” format, this video shows how to build a really simple lab consisting of 2...

Here’s the video of my DevWeek talk on Azure Websites.

Posterous was bought by Twitter on the 12th March last year and is about to be shut down on the 30th April this year. If you have a blog on Posterous Spaces, you have until the 30th April to move it. After that date, your content will be gone and it will...

Devs, IT Pros, Architects, Marketeers, Salespeople, Business-oriented people – they are all rapidly becoming part of the pop-up lab phenomenon. Until now it was very difficult for private individuals with an interest (whether casual or professional) in...

Young children read pop up books; books whose pages pop up in to some form of structure for the child to admire and then pop back in again when the page is turned. As the page is turned it produces a different structure. Perhaps the first one was a lion...

  Macclesfield, UK, 12 March, 2013. A piece by TransparentChoice . Why the current process of selecting a Pope is broken and how technology can help. Ok, so we are unlikely to see this headline for real in 2013, but perhaps we should. When we think...

80 devs got together for a hack day at Modern Jago in Shoreditch, London the day after the London Web Summit. The Beebs and I both hosted the event. One of the winners was an 8-year old who wrote a car game. 12 apps were created. If you’d like to get...

18th March – Reading, UK. You’ve got your beautiful new app ready to run on a tablet, smartphone or other mobile device, and are ready to hook into an infrastructure cloud service for the back-end. Your main concern is making sure it’s reliable - you...

I was at the TIGA gaming conference with Rob Fraser who was a speaker addressing “realising the opportunity afforded to games developers by exploiting the cloud”. I took a couple of FlipCams and screen capture software to edit together this talk. A couple...

I’m sure we’ve all seen Computeractive on the shelves of our newsagents. When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, Computeractive does a feature article. This time as well as the print article, they’ve developed a Windows 8 application that uses...

The 4th step in Microsoft UK’s “6 Steps to Azure” programme, concentrating on Open Source software is to run as an in-person event on the 11th February in London. There is a great line-up of community speakers, all involved in the UK Windows Azure User...

Who is this camp for? You’ve probably heard of Windows Azure but not done anything with it. Maybe you’ve seen a few demos at an event or an online video. Maybe you’ve even got as far as trying the introductory lab in the freely downloadable training kit...

I posted this video on to Channel 9 before Christmas but I can see something has gone wrong with the indexing and it’s pretty undiscoverable on the site. Thought I’d make it known through the blog.

…watch it all the way through to the end – there’s a smile there. Planky

Six Steps to Windows Azure launched last week with over 160 attendees over the 2 days at our London kick off events which were run in partnership with the UK Windows Azure User Group.  Our first event Azure in the Real World showcased some fantastic...

Another great Windows 8 touch-enabled app on a slate.

OK, so I don’t usually blog about client software, but hey – it’s Windows 8 launch day today. I don’t even drink alcohol, but I love seeing this app being used.