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Using the Windows Azure PHP SDK command-line tools on Linux
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No, you are not dreaming, and yes, it works: using the latest version of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , you can use the command-line tools (and the API, for that matter) on Linux! Here’s how. You may first need to install PHP proper on your...
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Sample command-line utility to enable Storage Analytics on Windows Azure
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5 months ago
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The Windows Azure Storage team has has recently announced the availability of a widely requested feature: Windows Azure Storage Analytics to track, analyze, and debug your usage of storage (Blobs, Tables and Queues). Here are a few additional resources...
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Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage using jQuery
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5 months ago
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Did you know it was possible to access the Windows Azure Blob Storage directly from JavaScript, for example using jQuery? At first, it sounds obvious, since Blobs are after all acessible from a public URL… But in practice, there is a very big hurdle:...
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Controlling a Silverlight PivotViewer control from JavaScript with ScriptableMember
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7 months ago
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The Silverlight PivotViewer control offers a really compelling experience for exploring and sorting through visual data like photographs. It includes a number of built-in controls, but the other day a customer complained that he could not just hand the...
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Deploying the Java sample app to Windows Azure using the Starter Kit & Eclipse Plugin
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7 months ago
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In a previous post , I have presented a little sample Java web application I have written to demonstrate how you can use Windows Azure Platform resources from a Java web application. It’s a simple starting point that includes the basic building blocks...
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Java sample application for Windows Azure
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7 months ago
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I have published on GitHub the source code for a very simple Java Web application, that includes all the basic building blocks you would need to start developing a “real” Java application for Windows Azure. It takes the form of an Eclipse project that...
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Running the Windows Azure Cmdlets with SDK 1.4
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10 months ago
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The Windows Azure Management Cmdlets are very useful to manage your hosted services from a PowerShell command-line, and they have recently been upgraded for SDK 1.3... Unfortunately not yet for SDK 1.4. They work fine though, all you have to do is to...
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Ruby Worker Role code sample
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10 months ago
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I have posted the Visual Studio solution for the basic Ruby Worker Role that I described in my previous post . It is up on code.msdn.com: Basic Windows Azure Worker Role on code.msdn.com The solution containg everything, including the binaries for...
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Deploying Ruby in Windows Azure
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10 months ago
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You probably know already that the Windows Azure Platform supports many types of technologies; we often mention Java or PHP in that regard, but today I would like to show you how to deploy a basic Ruby application in Windows Azure . This will also give...
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Configuring an IIS 7 front-end for Apache Tomcat, using AppCmd.exe
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11 months ago
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I wanted to automate as much as possible the process of configuring the Apache Tomcat Redirector for IIS 7 . You can find detailed how-to documents describing how to configure the ISAPI filter manually , but I couldn’t find any ready-made scripts...
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Using Remote Desktop with Windows Azure and SDK 1.3
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over 2 years ago
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Since the 1.3 Windows Azure SDK release, you can configure a Remote Desktop connection in order to connect to your instances running in the Windows Azure fabric. This feature was one of the most frequently requested, especially by developers, who will...
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WCF Data Services: customizing your OData feeds and making them GeoRSS compliant
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over 2 years ago
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Version 4.0 of the .NET Framework brings a good deal of new features to the WCF Data Services module (ex-Astoria, ex-ADO.NET Data Services), including OData protocol version 2 support; you will find on MSDN a summary page of these new features. One...
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Using Windows Azure Drive part 2: modifying my application to use the drive
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over 2 years ago
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The first thing I did was to split my file access classes into a separate library, so that I could use them from both my “legacy” Desktop application and the Windows Azure version. As you can imagine, my goal is to port the rest of the application without...
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New version of Cerebrata Cloud Storage Studio, with Page Blobs support
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over 2 years ago
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In my last post , I was lamenting the fact that none of the available Azure tools supported the creation and upload of Page Blobs, that are required to use the Windows Azure Drive (or XDrive) feature. The good people at Cerebrata have heard the feedback...
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Using Windows Azure Drive Part 1: migrate your data to the Cloud
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over 2 years ago
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This month, we announced the Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (a.k.a. XDrive), a technology that allows you to mount a VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) into a Windows Azure instance and access it as if it was a locally attached NTFS drive. There are many applications...
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Un apercu des interfaces de facturation de Windows Azure
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over 2 years ago
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Vous êtes peut-être curieux de savoir à quoi ressemblent les interfaces permettant de suivre la facturation des services de la plateforme Windows Azure. Voici quelques captures d’écran qui vous montreront le degré de détail dont l’on dispose pour suivre...
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Retrouvez-moi aux TechDays 2010
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over 2 years ago
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Le mois de février est traditionnellement riche en festivités, avec la Chandeleur (le 2), la Saint-Valentin (le 14), le Nouvel An Chinois (le 14 aussi cette année), Mardi Gras (le 16 février)… Et bien sûr les Microsoft TechDays (les 8, 9 et 10 février...
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SQL Azure sous le capot
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over 3 years ago
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Une session de Jeff Currier, Senior Dev Lead. Il y a eu des changements majeurs dans le service depuis ce qui a été présenté à la PDC l’année dernière. Modèle conceptuel: Un abonnement permet de faire correspondre l’usage à une facturation; un compte...
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Montée en charge d’applications Web avec SQL Azure
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over 3 years ago
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Une session présentée par David Robinson (après une introduction musicale: “it’s time to change”) Cette session va se focaliser sur l’évolutivité horizontale, notamment en rapport avec la taille maximale d’une base SQL Azure (10 Go) mais également en...
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Construire des applications Windows Azure: Fiabilité et Montée en Charge
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Une session présentée par Brian Calder. Ironiquement, une coupure de courant en début de session provoque un retard de 10 minutes pendant que l’on redémarre les machines! Aurait-on évité ce problème en utilisant PowerPoint dans les nuages plutôt que sur...
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Windows Server AppFabric Caching (ex-“Velocity”)
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over 3 years ago
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Une application classique a souvent une architecture à deux niveaux, par exemple Web (ASP.NET) + base de données. AppFabric Caching va aider à monter en charge sur ce type d’architecture, et également se protéger en partie des plantages. AppFabric Caching...
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Meilleures pratiques: Windows Azure Tables & Queues
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over 3 years ago
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Tables Les PartitionKey sont utilisées pour répartir les données de vos tables sur plusieurs serveurs. L’on a alors les opérations habituelles, Create/Query/Delete sur les Tables, et Insert/Update/Delete/Query sur les entités. Le SDK fournit un client...
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Construire des applications Java pour Windows Azure
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over 3 years ago
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L’une des annonces majeures pour Windows Azure à mon sens est la possibilité, en plus de .NET et PHP, de déployer désormais également des applications Java. Le retour d’expérience de Domino’s Pizza durant la keynote est éloquent: ils ont pu bénéficier...
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Présent et Futur de Windows Azure
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over 3 years ago
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Une session présentée par Manuvir Das à la PDC09. Manuvir s’occupe des outils destinés aux développeurs Windows Azure comme les SDK ou les outils pour Visual Studio. Il y eu énormément d’annonces lors de la keynote de ce matin, cette session est donc...
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Notes Twitter de la keynote Jour 1
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over 3 years ago
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J’ai utilisé Twitter pour prendre des notes lors de cette keynote très riche en annonces! Voici donc un résumé de mon activité Twitter, en attendant des analyses “à froid” dans les jours qui viennent… Just received the pre-PDC memo from Ray Ozzie...
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