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Last week I had an article featured in the UK MSDN Flash magazine, the article was describing how I have set up your automated builds to deploy to Windows Azure using the recently released management services. The article “Deploying to the Cloud as Part
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As part of the AltNetWorkshop Roy, told all his students in the class to STOP using the mouse when developing in visual studio and instead only use the keyboard and the tools that you have at your disposal. Initially dumping the mouse and using only the
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Test Driven Development ( TDD ) has always been a subject that I have heard lots about, and thought of as a very idealistic almost academic approach to software development. However, when I heard that Seb over at AltNet was organising a TDD workshop with
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I have recently been working on a big Azure application that we have been wanting to deploy to the cloud and test, to make sure that no unexpected bugs occur whilst the application is in the wild and give the opportunity to see how it performs. Now the
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Last week saw a new intake of Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) converge on Microsoft UK, for a 2 day event kicking off the academic year. During the two days the students had various presentations from people all around the business ranging from talks
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A couple of weeks ago I managed to get into a real pickle when trying to run a Azure application after upgrading to the latest CTP. After an hour of furiously checking my code and being convinced it was correct, I gave in and Binged to try and find why
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There are a number of Azure and Cloud Computing events coming up in the UK (mainly based in London) below are a few that I have found: CloudCamp – London 24/09/2009 CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange
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I’ve recently been doing a bit of work generating images, I have also need to compare the images that I generate with an image that has already exists. I found a number of web sites that suggested the following way of comparing two images, by cycling
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CloudCamp London #5 24th September 2009 Microsoft Offices, Victoria http://cloudcamplondon5.eventbrite.com/ CloudCamp seems like a great opportunity for any budding Cloud developers to get together and share idea’s, war stories and not to forget
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One of the questions that is still being asked by people both within the tech industry and outside is “What is Windows Azure?” to answer this question Steve Marx a Microsoftie who works on Windows Azure has put together this great hand drawn video. This
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One of the best practices when creating an application on top of the Azure Service Platform is to constantly log your applications activity. This is so that when a worker role inevitably goes down (and it will) you will be view output in your log files
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Going shopping has just been make a lot easier by the Tesco's IE8 Accelerator , so to explain how easy this made shopping @markjo , @marcholmes and @will_coleman headed off to document the experience :p Hopefully, more videos will be whizzing their way
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On a normal Saturday I would normally end up recovering from a hangover walking around the local shops in Reading, looking at all the cool gadgets that I could buy, cameras, TVs, laptops all the standard geek gear. However, when ever I get to the computer
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been wanting to get into playing with some PowerShell for scripting and replacing the old trust cmd (the old DOS prompt is soo Win3.5 :p ). It wasn't until I admitted this dirty little secret of mine to
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Great Channel 9 video featuring Amitabh Srivastava the VP for Windows Azure, talking about Azure, the cloud, cloud services, developing for the cloud and some insights into what's in store for the future. My favourite quote from this hour long dive into
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