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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: JavaScript Grunt JavaScript automation...

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. Getting into Ember: Part 4 : Covers client-side...

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 is running in JavaScript, via Emscripten. Real...

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 for your weekend reading: Cloud Penny...

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, it’s all the rage to build feed readers. ...

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 : An example of using a startup task to install...

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 if you have an application that you want in the Gallery...

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 Create a Basic Chat with Node.js : Chat application...

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 week, another Node.js release. Iwebpp.io : Ever...

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 : 0.10 is sort of a big deal. I’d recommend...

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 is available in new regions now. Node...

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. Windows Azure Service Disruption from Expired...

Wow, Friday already. This week sort of flew past. Here's some links for your weekend reading: Node v0.8.20 released : Another week, another Node.js release. Enabling Remote Desktop on Ubuntu in Windows Azure : Not an SSH person? More familiar with Remote Desktop? Learn how to enable...

It's Friday again, did you have a happy Valentine's Day this week? Here's some non-romantic reading for your weekend: Ready, set, go download the latest release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java : New release of the Eclipse plugin for Java developers. Check the link for details...

It's Friday, time for some links. Here's a mix of Ruby, Node, JavaScript and client-side programming for your weekend reading. Node v0.8.19 (stable) : Another week, another Node release. Ruby 1.9.3-p385 : New release for Ruby. Includes a fix for an RDoc vulnerability. jQuery 1.9.1 : A new...

After a very mild fall and early winter, it's finally turned off very cold here. Hopefully you're keeping warm this weekend! Here's a few links for your weekend reading: TypeScript 0.8.2 : A new preview is out. Read more about the new version in the link. Node v0.8.18 : Another week, another...

Back in October, I wrote a post that showed you how to set up a role as a dedicated cache and then access it using the memcache protocol . The steps involved were many and tedious, and in the post I said that you could expect tooling that made the work much easier. Well, that tooling is here! Now, all...

It's been a busy week here, trying to get things done before everyone goes on vacation next week. Unfortunately this hasn't left a lot of time for collecting links, hopefully you'll find that quality is better than quantity. :) How to Upload an Image to Windows Azure Storage : How to use the...

A new version of the Windows Azure Command-line Tools for Mac and Linux has been released. This version adds some useful commands for working with Windows Azure Web Sites, specifically setting app settings and working with GitHub and the server side repository. App Settings App settings is a feature...

A few weeks ago, Larry and I wrote a couple of post about how to set up co-located caching using Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and access it from Ruby and PHP: Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services and PHP, Memcache, and Windows Azure Caching . What we didn’t cover in those...

I've been researching how to troubleshoot Node.js applications hosted on Windows Azure recently, and while I'm don't have a complete story yet I wanted to share what I do have. So here's a brain dump of diagnostics information that Node.js developers might find useful. Also, don't be depressed/upset...

It's Brian's turn to be on vacation today, but I get the last laugh; I'm on vacation again next week. :) Here are my links for your Friday reading. If there's anything else interesting going on in the cloud/OSS space, let us know. Node 0.8.8 is out : For everyone that lives on the cutting...

Just got back from a customer visit in San Francisco, had a great time and the weather was good. Hope the rest of you are having a good summer also! Here's some links for your weekend: Task Scheduling with Windows Azure Web Sites using a Cron Job Service : Nathan Totten shows you how to set...

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 feature. But there are some specific things that...

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 is of interest to Open Source developers: Languages...