Cloudy with a Chance of Azure: Learn more about Windows Azure with new Tutorials (yeah w/PHP & Eclipse too)

Learn more about Windows Azure and Windows Azure Interoperability with PHP with these great new and updated tutorials below.  Get your head IN the Cloud. 

New Tutorials:

• Using Worker Roles for Simple Background Processing
• Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0
• Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Via Manual Installation
• Deploying Your First PHP Application with the Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP
• Deploying a PHP application to Windows Azure

Updated Windows Azure Tools for PHP (Compatible with the Windows Azure 1.3 SDK):

• Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse/PHP
• Windows Azure Companion 

Windows Azure with Drupal 7

Four new generic modules developed by Schakra and MindTree that allow Drupal administrators/developers to provide users with new features:

• Tutorial - Bing Maps Drupal Module Installation: enable easy & flexible embedding of Bing Map in Drupal content types (like articles for example)
• Silverlight Pivot viewer Module: enable easy & flexible embedding of Silverlight Pivot in Drupal content types, using a set of preconfigured data sources (OData, a, b, c).
• Windows Live ID Module: allow Drupal user to associate their Drupal account to their Windows Live ID, and then to login on Drupal with their Windows Live ID
• Tutorial - Bing Maps Drupal Module Installation: allow data sources based on OData to be included in Drupal content types (such as articles). The generic module includes a basic OData query builder and renders data in a simple HTML Table. The package includes a sample module base on an Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) OData source, showing how to build advanced rendering (with Bing Maps)