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Windows Azure Service Managment API now in CTP
18 September 09 05:16 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

The Windows Azure team released a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API the other day.  This API is REST-based, and currently supports the following operations (according to the Windows Azure team blog): Deployments Read More...

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Intro to Windows Azure in one slide
07 July 09 03:27 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

NOTE: Microsoft just changed the branding a bit so this slide needs to be updated - basically, the Azure Service Platform becomes the Windows Azure Platform, SQL Data Services becomes SQL Azure. Live Services leaves the platform (does not go away, but Read More...

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Symmetry between SQL Server and SQL Data Services – video interview
13 April 09 10:32 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Patric McElroy, Group Program Manager of SQL Data Services team talks with Michael Cote of RedMonk about what’s coming with the new SDS, and where there will be symmetry with SQL Server.  Really nice interview!  This was recorded a few weeks Read More...

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Video – Zune on Windows Mobile 7 vs. The Greater Sum
05 April 09 06:17 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Just saw this fun video from a post over at Live Side … funny thing, they hone in on whether or not one of the device interfaces is a preview of Windows Mobile 7 with a Zune app.  To me, the the far more interesting thing is the qualitatively new, Read More...

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Learn the Azure Services Platform with these practical, free little videos
11 February 09 05:53 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then at 30 fps, the “How Do I…” video series on the Azure Services Platform should be good for a library full of worth of Azure Services Platform goodness! Indeed, that’s just the idea: to create a video library Read More...

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Get the Mesh Video Player
06 February 09 01:49 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Brian Gorbett has a good post about how he built a Meshified video player .  What’s especially cool about this is that Brian also posted a screen cast video of him Meshifying the app, a link to the source code, AND a link to install the Meshified Read More...

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