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November 2008 - Posts

Debugging and Tracing REST calls to Azure Dev Storage

If you want to see the raw requests that the storage client is sending to your developer storage, the rather disturbingly named Fiddle Tool is what you are looking for. Normally network monitoring tools aren't going to see traffic to 127.0.0.1, but fiddler Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:59 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

Windows Azure Queues are quite particular

When you are using a Windows Azure queue, you have to be quite particular how you name it. The rules are: The queue name must be a valid Domain Name System (DNS) name, conforming to the following naming rules: A queue name must start with a letter or Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:09 AM by neilk | 0 Comments

What's with the silly beard?

In order to raise awareness of men's health issues, November has been turned into a moustache growing charity event, check out:   http://www.movember.com/ I'm currently deciding if this is a good idea - I would be up for it except that I have to Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 6:11 PM by neilk | 0 Comments
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Building blocks for an Azure application

Windows Azure provides two main things - a place to run your code and a place to store your data. When you are reading this keep in mind that Windows Azure is built for writing and hosting highly scalable and available applications - it is not about just Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:04 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

My top PDC Sessions

I thought it might be useful if I give some recommendations on the sessions I found the most useful at this years PDC. I tended to avoid most of the sessions on Windows Azure as I figured that I would know most of the content already - my theory is that Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 3:09 PM by neilk | 0 Comments
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Speed up downloads in IE

If you haven't already installed it, get your hands on a copy of IE7 Pro - If you are running IE8, don't worry about the name, it works just fine. This tools adds lots of nice features to IE including mouse gestures, spell checking, easy in page searching Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 5:03 AM by neilk | 0 Comments
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Watch the PDC videos - they are free!

I was one of the lucky ones to get to PDC this year, but if you didn't, all the sessions are available to watch for free ! You even get the choice of video format including lower res options; allowing you to take the PDC with you where every you go. Ok, Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:15 AM by neilk | 0 Comments
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