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Monday, November 02, 2009 6:48 PM

NerdDinner hosted on Windows Azure and SQL Azure

I recently got my hands on a Windows Azure and SQL Azure token to try out a little cloud goodness. The challenge I set myself was to host an ASP.NET MVC application (including data) in the cloud. Hopefully just an hour or so of fiddling about, but as
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:27 PM

Tesco, the Cloud and IE8

No sooner have I finished banging on about IE8 than Tesco go ahead and release an accelerator to allow searching for groceries from IE . Cunningly, this accelerator takes advantage of the APIs that Tesco have released (some related posts there) and is
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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:53 AM

The Arc

You may have already discovered Arc magazine (it’s a series of 4) which aims to describe Software + Services for Architects, but if not, you should know that apart from the physical copies, you can get the digital versions from our Architect Portal
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:26 PM

GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft Online Services

Filed under “stuff that happened while I was away” is this fairly important announcement that GSK is to deploy 100,000 seats of hosted services from Microsoft (they’d previously been on Notes). As ZDNet reports , it makes Google’s 15,000 seats at Genetech
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:45 PM

S+S and Mardi Gras

From my Aussie buddy Greg Willis’ blog , there’s news of a DeepZoom-y/Azure-y solution bringing to life the Sydney Mardi Gras that he and Michael were involved in. My erstwhile colleague, Brighty, is Down Under working with Greg & Co, and I can certainly
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:34 PM

Gee, Software + Services Makes Sense

OK, so obviously I’m going to have a bit of a dig at Google suffering from a few problems on the email front (and apparently some weird stuff on the Groups front ). Of course this is because the typical news coverage they get is ‘ Ooh, they have a new
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:38 PM

Live Mesh Blogger Meet-Up – 11th December, Soho

@stevecla will be propping up the bar talking about cloud computing along with top guys like Jeff Hansen and @anguslogan next week at a blogger meet up in London . Deets: If you'd like to join us please edit the wiki to add your name - that way we'll
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:34 PM

OreDev Presentation: Software + Services

Today, myself and Blooders presented on Software + Services on the Architecture track at OreDev (as previously mentioned). Our intention was to provoke some thought on the pressures on architects, and the drivers for Software + Services, and help architects
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:04 PM

Windows Azure Explained

OK, so it’s hardly Monty Python but… This was a bit of work that myself, Mark Quirk, Michael McClary, George and Will worked on as a simple explanation of Azure (RedDog at the time…) Yes, that’s me on the treadmill with the bandage on my head. The things
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:49 AM

Creating a Silverlight Mesh-Enabled Application

I’m hoping that Katrien was inspired by the PDC BBC iPlayer demo that we worked on here, as she created this great step-by-step guide to building a Silverlight Mesh-Enabled Application . I’d like to tell you that it was a smooth for us when we were building
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:33 AM

Remote Desktop and Mesh

On a Mesh tip, a colleague mentioned yesterday that his primary use of Mesh had been to provide remote desktop support to the family, and then Eileen mentions the same thing . As a software chap I try not to offer any support to the family, as typically
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