Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights for this week.

 Articles, Videos and Blog Posts

• Blog: New Powershell command line goodies for Windows Azure at Build by @gblock (published Nov. 5)
• Blog: Build 2012 – Not just for Windows Anymore by @brentcodemonkey (published Nov. 5)
• Blog: Windows Azure Command-line Tools for Mac and Linux, Version 0.6.7 is Available by @larry_franks (posted Nov. 6)
• Blog: Deploying your first Facebook App on Windows Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template by yao huang lin (posted Oct 31)
• Presentation: Advanced Windows Azure IaaS – Demo Code by @MWashamMS (posted Nov 7)
• Blog: The Story of Your Life – Mr. Virtual Machine by @StephenWThomas (posted Nov 6)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings

North America

• October - June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
• November 12: (Satory Global) Windows Azure Developer Camp – Mtn. View, CA
• November 14: Windows AzureConf – Virtual Event on Channel9
• December 4: MongoSV – Silicon Valley, CA

Europe

• November 19: WAZUGNL 11: Sharepoint Connections in Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rest of World/Virtual

• Ongoing:  Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand

Recent Windows Azure MSDN Forums Discussion Threads

• What technologies to use for turn-based multiplayer app – 762 views, 2 replies
• Azure Diagnostics: Access to the parth ‘(GUID)-mswapd-lock’ is denied? - 991 views, 7 replies
• Azure Storage Client (v2.0) – Disposing resources – 311 views, 3 replies

Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• Loading lots of Azure blob data in a WPF app – 2 answers, 0 votes
• Using Fiddler with multiple Azure Web Roles – 1 answer, 2 votes
• Notifying WFC Subscribers in Cloud Computing – 3 answers, 1 vote
• Windows Azure VPN Feature – 2 answers, 0 votes
• Azure Table Storage Partitioning for Regularly Distributed Data – 2 answers, 2 votes

Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.

Have a great weekend!

Himanshu