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Pie in the Sky (May 25, 2012)
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Looking forward to a long weekend…so I can catch up on work. And of course, there is our weekly reading to catch up on… Startup Opstera Launches Free Cloud App Monitoring Service for Azure Startup Opstera Launches Free Cloud App Monitoring...
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Pie in the Sky (May 18, 2012)
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14 days ago
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Larry Franks
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It's Friday (yay!) and that means links. Here's a few that Brian and I found interesting this week: Node stable 0.6.18 : New version of node has released. Bing Search API on Windows Azure Marketplace : If you're looking to integrate web searches...
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Real World Windows Azure: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud
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18 days ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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This is a guest-post written by Ken Muse, Vice President of Technology at ecoInsight . He has written an amazingly in-depth post about optimizing PHP applications for Windows Azure based on his experience in doing a mixed PHP (Joomla!) and .NET deployment...
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Pie in the Sky (May 11, 2012)
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21 days ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Larry and I have been remiss in sharing our reading, so this list attempts to make up for that… Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows : Microsoft's newly formed subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies, announces...
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Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java
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29 days ago
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Kris Ragh
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Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java Hello, my name is Kris, and I work on Windows Azure alongside Larry and Brian. I specifically manage some of our documentation and community efforts for Java support on Windows Azure. In this blog post, I’ll...
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Pie in the Sky (April 20, 2012)
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1 month ago
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Larry Franks
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Friday links for your reading pleasure. Just a few today; busy week. How I long for the slow days of late fall/early winter. Announcing Windows Azure Media Services : "Windows Azure Media Services simplifies the creation, management, and delivery...
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Pie in the Sky (April 13, 2012)
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1 month ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Well, once again, Larry and I have managed to let a week slip by without a substantial post. And, once again, our excuse is that we’re working on stuff for the next Windows Azure service update. Yeah…I know…it better be great, right...
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Pie in the Sky (April 6, 2012)
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1 month ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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As Larry mentioned last week, we’ve both been heads down working on updates for the Windows Azure platform , hence the relatively quiet blog of late . This week, however, we have managed to pick up our reading pace a bit…sharing the good...
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Pie in the Sky (March 30, 2012)
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2 months ago
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Larry Franks
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Sorry for the lack of posts recently; both Brian and I are heads down on work for future updates to the Windows Azure platform. Here's a few links for your Friday reading: Developing for Windows Azure in WordPress : This is a good mix of guidance...
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Pie in the Sky (March 9, 2012)
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2 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Larry and I have both been heads down working on a number of projects…hence, the recent lack of activity on the blog. But fear not! We’re not dead yet. Hopefully, we’re laying the groundwork for bigger and better things to come. We...
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Windows Azure Storage and Concurrent Access
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3 months ago
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Larry Franks
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A lot of the examples of using Windows Azure Storage that I run across are pretty simple and just demonstrate the basics of reading and writing. Knowing how to read and write usually isn't sufficient for a multi-instance, distributed application. For...
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Pie in The Sky (February 17, 2012)
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3 months ago
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Larry Franks
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Just a few links this week. It's been super busy here for both of us as we prepare to present a session on Open Source at the MVP Summit. Hopefully we'll have more time next week to work on the blog. Big Data and SQL Server: Disruption or Harmony...
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Pie in the Sky (February 10, 2012)
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3 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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A busy week for Larry and I, but no so busy that we couldn’t do some reading. Here’s this week’s collection of what we found interesting… Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources :List of Azure/Node resources...
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Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role
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3 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Last week, a colleague approached me with a question he’d been asked by a customer: How do you deploy both a PHP website and an ASP.NET website on the same Web Role in Windows Azure? Given the mixed environments many people work with today, I thought...
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Pie in The Sky (February 3, 2012)
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3 months ago
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Larry Franks
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It’s been a busy week here for Brian and I, lots of stuff going on. We did have time to collect some links however, which I share with you now. Enjoy! 8 Essential Best Practices in Windows Azure Blog Storage : “Throughout this article...
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Pie in the Sky (January 27, 2012)
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Here’s the list of links Larry and I found interesting this week…Enjoy! Getting Started with Windows Azure : Scott Guthrie , Corporate VP in charge of the Azure App Platform, walks you through getting started with Azure. Making Windows...
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Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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This is a short post to share the results of a little investigation I did that was inspired by comments on a post I wrote about using SQL Azure for handling session data . The comment was by someone reporting that SQL Azure seemed to be faster than Azure...
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Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure - part 3: Remote Desktop
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4 months ago
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Larry Franks
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In part 2 I discussed how to create a startup task to run tests during application startup. But what if something goes wrong and your test output contains a bunch of failures or the output isn’t generated? If the fix is obvious, making the required...
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Pie in the Sky (January 20, 2012)
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4 months ago
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Larry Franks
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Another busy week, another batch of links for your Friday enjoyment. This week we have a wide selection of links, covering such diverse topics as language, IDE, cloud services and even… comedy? Enjoy! Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure...
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Using SQL Azure Federations via PHP
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Among the December updates to the Windows Azure platform was the introduction of SQL Azure Federations . In a nutshell, SQL Azure Federations introduces an abstraction layer for the sharding of SQL Azure databases. The value in federations lies in your...
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Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure - part 2: Output to File
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4 months ago
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Larry Franks
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In part 1 , I presented an overview of testing on Windows Azure. One thing that I missed in the original article is that while there’s no testing framework for Ruby that exposes a web front-end, it’s perfectly possible to have your test results...
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Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012)
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Things are not slowing down to start off the new year. This weeks reading list covers everything from running Nginx on Windows Azure to a deploying Node.js projects to Azure using git push . Enjoy… Using Nginx in Windows Azure : A translation...
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Running VisualPHPUnit in Windows Azure
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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Last month, I wrote a post that outlined 3 ways to test PHP applications in Windows Azure , and since then I’ve covered two of those approaches: Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure (uses RDP) and Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure . In this...
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How to Password Protect a PHP Website Directory in Azure
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4 months ago
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Brian Swan - MSFT
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I’m taking a short break from thinking about testing PHP applications in Windows Azure (although, ultimately, this will tie into a post about testing). In this post, I’ll show one way that you can password protect a directory for a PHP website...
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Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012)
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4 months ago
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Larry Franks
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It’s 2012 now, and I’m finally back from a longish vacation during which I did some relaxing and ate too much sweets. Here’s a collection of links that Brian and I saved up over the holidays, hopefully they’re not too out of date...
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