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Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM
SQL Azure slides and links from EdgeUG session
A big thanks to all those who attended last night to hear about SQL Azure and SQL Server 2008 R2. I really enjoyed it and once again “Merry Christmas”! Links http://bit.ly/startazure takes you to the getting started page for SQL Azure (and Windows
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:56 PM
Using SQL Server Management Studio R2 with SQL Azure
As I mentioned earlier this week , we now have a CTP release of a version of SSMS that is SQL Azure aware. I thought it might be useful to share my first few minutes with it. First up, I cleared out my SQL Azure account using the portal (dropped all my
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:32 PM
SQL Server Management Studio now supports SQL Azure
I have had a bit of a “SQL Azure” day at TechEd Europe. I sat through David Robinsons excellent intro to SQL Azure development (smooth, on time, great Q&A), caught up with David afterwards to exchange stories on SQL Azure and find out what I will
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:27 PM
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure
Also knows as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that) This is a bonus edition of the podcast recorded on the 6th of October in London with Steve Marx , Technical Strategist working on Windows Azure. It starts slow, it
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:11 AM
David Chappell in conversation in the UK about Windows Azure and the cloud
David and I hosted David Chappell and Steve Marx in London on the 6th of October in a packed day with early adopters of azure (ISVs and System Integrators) David interviewed David (!) and I interviewed Steve for our MSDN Podcast . Unfortunately the podcast
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Monday, October 19, 2009 7:51 PM
Windows Azure Platform “free” for MSDN Subscribers and BizSpark companies
Well not exactly free but definitely extremely welcome and a great benefit . The introductory offer includes a huge 750 hours of compute time – which rather nicely is how much you need to run a node 24x7 for the whole month. Another great reason to sign
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:45 PM
Slides and links from Windows Azure Platform Storage session
I delivered a session on Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Database at the UK Azure user group on the 6th of October. A big thanks to everyone who attended – and for putting up with my last minute improvisation when we realised that 2/3rd of the audience
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:20 AM
Midnight and the Azure and Entity Framework decks are now final and available for download
You might have been following this series of posts on my preparation for Software Architect 2009. Well, this evening while sitting in a small hotel room in London (with no window and a dodgy tv) I completed both presentations and made them available for
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:52 PM
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the last day retrospective
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day five (The last day): Play, play, play with the technology. PART DONE Produce outline skeleton demo sequence
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Friday, September 25, 2009 9:54 AM
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day four and the slides are done
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day four (Thursday): Produce final drafts of each deck and post them so delegates can check out what I’m covering. DONE
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:10 AM
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day three was Entity Framework 4 day. I love it!
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day three: Nearly got it all done. However I ended up spending more time on EF4 than I had planned as … there is a lot of it! Gather
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:27 AM
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day two and my love for Boot from VHD
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day two: The Tuesday plan vs actual was … 100% spot on. Install Entity Framework CTP on Windows XP Mode. SUCCESS Install VS2010
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:08 PM
Using IIS to generate a X509 certificate for use with the Windows Azure Service Management API – step by step
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. One of the things that has been added to Windows Azure while i have been “elsewhere” is the Service Management API which the team introduced
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:50 AM
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day one summary and the eureka moment
This is the second in a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. In case you don’t want to skim through the whole post, the main things I learnt in day one are: 1. Never forget that install errors can
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:24 PM
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 006 – Eric Nelson discusses Visual Studio 2010, Parallel, Language Parity and Azure
This show is a bonus edition. It includes a brief overview of the announcements this week around Azure at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and then a 30minute interview recorded at Qcon 2009 in London earlier this year. This time around,
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