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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...
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...
From concept to delivery in 2 weeks with Windows Azure and Silverlight
08 June 09 10:55 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   
Suppose you were asked to design and host an interactive map for the Taste of Chicago , which gets about 3 million visitors.  No problem.  Now, suppose you only had 2 weeks to deliver the whole thing – from first phone call to finished product.   Read More...
Ray Ozzie speaks on Google Wave
05 June 09 11:20 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Courtesy of Ina Fried , here’s Ray Ozzie speaking about Google Wave at Silicon Valley’s Churchhill Club.    In a nutshell, Ozzie compares Google Wave to Groove, and calls it anti-web because the ethos of the web is about open data formats, open Read More...
From Cloudy in Seattle: The Easy Way to Install the Windows Azure Tools and SDK Pre-Requisites
22 April 09 12:46 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Jim Nakashima has a handy little post here on an easy way to get all the Windows Azure tools and SDK pre-requites installed.  The secret is to use the Web Platform Installer, which you can get here .  But read Jim’s post for the step-by-step Read More...
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...
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...
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...
Ever wondered how Windows Azure works?
22 December 08 03:28 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
David Lemphers has a post here that digs into a few of the details, and is worth a look.  And thanks to Steve Clayton for pointing it out.   See David’s post for pretty pictures and more details on how the VMs are apportioned, how much Read More...
Live Blogging at PDC 2008 – Ray Ozzie’s keynote: Introduce Windows Azure
27 October 08 05:32 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Headline: Windows Azure, Windows in the Cloud, released as CTP See the video stream here: www.microsoftpdc.com Key theme: Transformation toward services, and enabling a new generation of apps that span the pc, web, and phone Today: focusing on back end Read More...

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