Busy week, which it usually is when there are things like BUILD coming up. Hopefully having BUILD in the spring means that the fall will be quieter than it has been in the past, but only time will tell. Speaking of time, take some time out this weekend...

TechEd NorthAmerica 2013 is over, on to WWDC next week! Yes, it's that crazy time when there's one interesting tech conference after another. Hopefully you'll be able to find time to checkout today's links: JavaScript Using duck typing to...

It looks like it is going to be super hot this weekend, and the fabled Southern US humidity is starting to kick in too. Might be time to go visit my friends in the mountains! :) Hopefully you are staying cool wherever you are, and have some time to relax...

One of the features of the Windows Azure SDKs that I haven't seen a lot of talk about is retrying operations. Most of the SDKs provide the ability to retry an operation in the event of a transient, or temporary failure. The Node.js one provides this ability...

Ah, it's the end of another busy week. Luckily it's a long weekend here due to a holiday on Monday. Here's some links for your weekend reading: Cloud Microsoft announces major expansion of Windows Azure Services in Asia : Public preview in China...

How many people are going to see Star Trek this weekend? I'd like to, but there's lots of family stuff going on this weekend here, so maybe next weekend. If you're stuck at home (or don't like Star Trek) here's some links to keep you busy this weekend...

In the previous posts ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) I covered creating an Ember.js-based single page application, then wiring it up to Windows Azure Mobile Services for data storage. But currently it allows everyone to post anonymously. I at least want some basic authentication...

Last week I created a new single page application using Ember.js as the client framework (see Part 1 and Part 2 ). Today, I finish up the application by adding Windows Azure Mobile Services for data storage. In case you don't want to slog through the...

It's Friday once again, another busy week completed. Here's some interesting links from the past week for your Friday afternoon reading: Javascript 5 things you should stop doing with jQuery : Or you could read this and make up your own mind...

Today I continue building the application started in Part 1 by adding navigation and some basic routes and templates. If you're following along, you should be starting out with an application that looks something like the following when you start it using...

Recently I've been reading about JavaScript frameworks for creating single page applications, and wanted to try my hand at it. I also wondered how well Windows Azure Mobile Services would work with these frameworks. While there are several frameworks...

It's Friday once again, and boy am I glad. Stayed up too late last night coding and need a restful weekend. Hopefully you'll be able to take some time to sit back, relax, and enjoy this weeks links. Games Unreal JavaScript : The Unreal engine...

It's been an odd week where I've been working on random things. Trying my hand at single page applications with Windows Azure Mobile and some of the newer JavaScript frameworks. Might have something to post about it next week. For now, here's some links...

If you haven't heard, there's now a Ruby SDK for Windows Azure that provides access to Windows Azure Data Management services and some Service Bus services. For hosting Ruby web applications on Windows Azure, the officially supported method is to use...

Quite a few links this week for your weekend reading: Node Unix philosophy and Node.js : A brief discussion of the Unix philosophy and how it relates to Node.js. AngularJS: Let’s make a feed reader : With Google Reader shutting down...

The following article was written and contributed to the blog by Katrina Lyon-Smith, a Senior Content Publishing Lead at Microsoft. Do you want to create an app that can store data in the cloud? Do you want to access that data from any device...

It's turned into summer here, complete with summer heat. The heat didn't stop us from gathering links though. Here's a list of interesting links for your weekend reading. Java Install the Java Runtime Environment: Chocolatey-Azure cloud services...

It's been a busy week and I'm looking forward to spend some time this weekend on this weeks links. Hopefully you'll find them as interesting as I do: Cloud Tips for a successful submission to the Windows Azure App Gallery : Useful information...

Happy Friday! Almost the end of March - was it just me or did this month fly past? Hopefully the weekend doesn't fly past! Here's some links for your weekend reading: Node.js Node v0.10.2 : Another week, another Node.js release. How to...

So that sneezing I mentioned last Friday? Turns out that wasn't allergies! I'm mostly recovered at this point though, so this weekend should be more enjoyable. Here's some links for your weekend reading: Node Node v0.10.1 is out : Another...

It's spring and everything is blooming where I live. Which means it's also allergy season; I've been sneezing all morning. Hopefully you're not allergic to some weekend reading, as we've got some good links today: Node.js Node v0.10.0 released...

Just a quick note that I've udpated a previous blog post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx ) on connecting to SQL Database from ActiveRecord. It should be current as of 3/12/2013 using Rails...

It's almost the weekend, so here's some links for your Friday reading: Cloud Windows Azure Mobile Services adds Android support and extends availability to East Asia : There’s a new Mobile Services SDK for Android developers, and the service...

On Monday Scott Guthrie announced Windows Azure Mobile Services support for the Android platform. You now have a choice of 4 client platforms that can use Mobile Services to make use of Windows Azure as a cloud data store: Windows Store Windows...

This week has been crazy busy. I'm really surprised I had time to find this many links. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Cloud New Add-ons in the Windows Azure Store : Blitline, Cloudinary, PubNub, and VS Anywhere are now available in the store...