June, 2012

The June 7th update to Windows Azure introduced two new services (Windows Azure Websites and persistent VMs) that beg the question “When should I use a Windows Azure Website vs. a Web Role vs. a VM?” That’s exactly the question I’ll...

The spring update to Windows Azure was big. Of all the updates, one of the most interesting is the addition of Windows Azure Websites. Essentially, Windows Azure now supports the ability to quickly and easily deploy ASP.NET, Node.js and PHP web-sites...

Earlier this week, I posted an overview of the “new” Windows Azure SDK for PHP . In that post, I promised deeper dives into a few areas of the SDK. In this post I’ll begin delivering on that promise by looking at how to use Windows Azure...

You may have noticed that Brian and I have been absent from the blog a lot recently, that's because we've been working on content for the Windows Azure spring release that went live earlier today. Here's a short guide on what's new in this update that...

Hopefully it's cooler where you're at than it is here; it's up to 106°F at my house today! Note that the blog will probably be pretty slow the latter part of next week, as both Brian and I will be on vacation. But for today, here are some links for...

Summer is here! Well, it is in most places. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’re still waiting. Not to fear…we’ve got good reading weather! Here’s how we are keeping busy waiting for summer to arrive… Windows and...

Whew! And Wow! After yesterday’s update to Windows Azure, I’m finally coming up for air. It’s great to see all the positive reactions to the hard work done by many teams over the last few months. Of course, all that hard work means lots...

Earlier this week, Brian posted Windows Azure Websites: a PHP Perspective which covers a lot of generally useful information, even for non-PHP developers. In fact, probably 90% of it is generically useful to anyone interested in using the new web sites...

Some of you may remember a little project I created last year called RubyRole , which let you host Ruby applications as a Windows Azure hosted service (now called a cloud service.) I updated it the other day to fix a few issues with the recent spring...

The spring update to Windows Azure contained lots of updates that are relevant to developers using Open Source technologies (and PHP developers in particular) – not the least of which is the release of a “new” Windows Azure SDK for PHP...

Hey, it's Friday already! We've got a bunch of links today, most of which are related to the recently published spring update for Windows Azure. Overview of the New Windows Azure Package Format : The format for .cspkg files has been updated (and...