November, 2012

Content Delivery Networks are key to delivering great experiences in media and content-rich applications regardless of your end users’ locations, and in Windows Azure it’s dead simple to use. Check out the fourth episode of my DevRadio Practical Azure...

As they say, a picture can be worth a thousand APIs (or something like that), so I’ve pulled together a few of the very cool posters ( Windows Azure , Windows Phone API , and Server 2012 Hyper-V ) that some of the product teams have come up with. Feel...

Here’s a great chance to go deep in Windows Server 2012 from both a lecture and hands-on perspective! My IT Pro colleagues are doing a post-Thanksgiving swing through the Northeast with stops at the following locations: Troy, New York on November 27th...

In part three of my continuing series, I cover Windows Azure Drives, an abstraction of Windows Azure Blob storage designed to provide a durable layer of storage with the same file I/O semantics of a local drive. Download: MP3 MP4 (iPod, Zune HD) High...

Lots of things going on in Windows Azure this week!  First up, I’ll be presenting at the TRINUG on Windows Azure on Wednesday, Nov. 14th 2012 .   If you’re in the area, stop by! This Wednesday, the corp team is also holding a Windows Azure...

As I kick off the coverage of the Windows Azure platform in earnest, join me on Channel 9 for this episode focusing on the use of blob storage in Windows Azure. Download: MP3 MP4 (iPod, Zune HD) High Quality MP4 (iPad, PC) Mid Quality MP4 (WP7, HTML5...

It’s finally time to get to the “Azure” piece of this three-parter! Those of you who haven't read Part 1 and Part 2 may want to at lease peruse those posts for context. Those of you who have know that I created a Windows Store application (Boys of Summer...

In this post, I’ll cover what’s required to outfit my Windows Store Boys of Summer application to receive toast notifications. If you haven’t already, I suggest reviewing the previous post for context . To provide the underlying ‘glue’...

If you haven't read my previous post on push notifications for Windows 8 applications, you may want to do so before continuing with the next few articles, which are a deeper dive into the development of a cloud service to support a specific Windows Store...