RickAtMicrosoft

That's the title of my latest post over on Larry Franks' Silver Lining Blog . It deals with using Windows Azure Mobile Services to hook up an Android phone to an Azure back-end data store. And in some cases, to Google Cloud Messaging, in order to enable...

This is a continuation of last Wednesday's post, which featured the intro section to my forthcoming white paper, "Data Architecture in a Cloudy World". In that overview, I briefly mentioned the bewildering array of choices facing developers today in...

Like many Microsoft bloggers, I'm somewhat erratic, partly because of my own workload, and partly due to company decisions about what product information can be blogged about prior to public release. Anyway I'm back (for a while, at least). I am writing...

This topic, Best Practices for Performance in Windows Azure Applications , appeared with the recent Windows Azure Spring 2012 refresh. It's focussed on design issues that affect performance. A related topic that was published at the same time, Troubleshooting...

This topic is now published on the MSDN Library at Versioning SQL Azure Schemas by Using Federations . The bottom-line idea of the topic is that because SQL Azure Federation members can have different database schemas, therefore you can use this in...

I've read quite a few posts on the Wiki Ninjas blog discussing translating articles from English into other languages, mainly Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. I checked on Wiki: Non-English Language Title Guidelines , and there didn't seem to be a lot...

A virtual team of us released this last Friday. It provides you with "best practices and recomendations for working with the Windows Azure platform". So if you find yourself overwhelmed and intimidated by "The Cloud", this is a really good place to go...

In my preceding post I talked about the Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team ("CAT")'s framework for handling transient connections in SQL Azure client connections. This framework has 3 components to it: a classification scheme for connection...

This is a collection of resources I have encountered while researching the problem of intermittent connections in Windows Azure. I will be writing about how these affect not just Entity Framework, but Windows Azure more generally. "Transient connections...

I am currently ramping up my Windows Azure skills (ramping up on new technologies is one of the many fun parts of my job), and there's a great tutorial on the Technet wiki written by Jonathan Gao. I'm kind of a fanatic about the "first time experience...

I attended the recent PASS Summit in Seattle, staffed the "Experts Pod" dealing with application development, specialized in Entity Framework questions obviously, but also got to answer lots of other questions: T-SQL, jdbc drivers, etc. While there...

I am one of the programmer/writers that works on documenting the Entity Framework (which includes writing code samples, fortunately). My background is as a SQL developer, data modeller, and occasional dba. I was a contractor at Microsoft since 1995, then...