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...

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...

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...

Today has been so busy I almost forgot to post the Friday links! I made it just in time though; here they are for your weekend reading: Scalable realtime services with Node.js, Socket.IO and Windows Azure : Justin Beckwith goes over how he implemented...

HDInsight is trying to provide the best of two worlds in how it manages its data. Azure Vault Storage (ASV) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) implemented by HDInsight on Azure are distinct file systems that are optimized, respectively,...

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 hazards of cross-platform development Recently I helped a co-worker with getting Rails, Nginx, and Unicorn up and running in a Linux VM, using Capistrano to deploy the Rails application from the development box. While we got this to work in the...

The new year continues to provide a bounty of interesting/helpful content…enjoy! Mongo-edit : Ever wanted a gui editor for MongoDB? Of course you have! Optimizing WebSockets Bandwidth : This is an older article, but optimizing bandwidth...

Things are starting to pick up after the holidays; some good links for your weekend reading this week. VM Depot : This is a new service for Windows Azure that allows the community to create and share VM images that you can use in Windows Azure....

Yesterday, Microsoft Open Technologies announced a complementary service to Windows Azure VMs - the VM Depot . The depot is a community-driven catalog of open source VM images. This lets you create and share VMs with custom configurations or specific...

One of the things that may have slipped past you in the holiday madness was this: PHP 5.4 is available in Windows Azure Web and Worker Roles. This is just a quick post to bring you up to speed on this feature. (If you are wondering about PHP versions...

Happy New Year, everyone! The blog has been relatively quiet in the last few weeks, but that means we have accumulated a ton of interesting reading. Some of these links might be a couple weeks old, but many of them are fresh reading. Regardless, they...

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...

It's been crazy this week, trying to get everything done before people disappear for vacation. Here's some early December links for your weekend reading: Pkgcloud : A node.js library that abstracts away the differences between cloud platforms. For...

With the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. last week, things were a bit slow. However, Larry and I did manage to find some interesting reading, which we are sharing here… Composer and Azure Websites Git Deployment (UPDATE) : How to use...

I’m happy to share that PHP 5.4 is now available in Windows Azure Web Sites ! You have always been able to install a custom PHP runtime in Web Sites , but now you can have PHP 5.4 available with the click of a button. And, you can customize the...

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...

This week’s reading list is a good one for cold autumn weather…it’s not light reading. So, stoke the fire, grab a warm beverage, and dig in (or just get comfortable and dig in if the cold weather hasn’t hit you yet)… ...

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...

It's Friday once again, and we're here with a list of links for your weekend reading pleasure: Continuous Deployment with Windows Azure Websites and Bitbucket : This adds to the continuous deployment options from GitHub and CodePlex. ...

Earlier today, MongoLab announced the availability of MongoDB as a service on Windows Azure: MongoLab on Windows Azure . From my point of view this is great as it now makes it easy to use 3 of my favorite technologies in concert: Windows Azure Web Sites...

As another follow up to an earlier post , I'm walking through the Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorials to add in the iOS client version of handling data validation. This tutorial (like the earlier one), will appear on windowsazure.com soon, builds...

We have a long reading list this week. Not sure how that happened considering how much other work we’ve had this week (maybe that’s why I didn’t get much sleep this week). This week’s list has everything from lots of small tips...

We've talked previously about the Windows Azure command-line tools , and have used them in a few posts such as Brian's Migrating Drupal to a Windows Azure VM . While the tools are generally useful for tons of stuff, one of the things that's been painful...

As a follow up to an earlier post , I'm walking through the Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorials to add in the iOS client version of handling data validation. We're not doing this in the client application (yet); instead, this tutorial, which will...