Here is a new event tour around Windows Azure. For full information, go to http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/events/make-it-happen.htm. Leave with code running in the cloud. Available in select cities, the Windows Azure Developer Camp will get you hands-on with the latest development tools. The groups are small—led by local Microsoft partners who specialize in Windows Azure—and you’ll...
Read more →I have been focusing my career on the cloud for the past five years of so, and people reach out to me from time to time with help on a project. I am always willing to pitch in when I can, and if I have the time. Of course I have to remind them...
Read more →Windows Azure Mobile Services is a service platform that is part of Windows Azure. The team focuses on delivering valuable services to mobile app developers, on any platform. Their services include: Easy server side data storage with service side logic/code Easy schedule script execution on server side Integration into cross platform Notification Services Cross...
Read more →The great thing about becoming a devices and services company is that we can now engineer in monthly intervals instead of yearly intervals. In the old days, when you had to ship software on plastic disks, we would plan on ship cycles that take years to finish, most typically a three year cycle for...
Read more →Let’s get this part out of the way. I am a big SimCity fan! SimCity 1 was the first boxed game I ever bought for a computer. Prior to this I had purchased some games at the local Radio Shack that were packaged in freezer bags. My friends and I would huddle around the...
Read more →Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...
Read more →I try not to just copy and paste stuff to my blog, but for event announcements there really isn’t much to add. I do feel that this is the start to a new computing era, and 10 years from now you will look back and see that you were a part of it. ...
Read more →This past week we released several changes to the portal. As many of you know, we released the ‘new’ portal this past June. In that timeframe, there have been some features that were only still available in the ‘old’ portal. The new portal is based on HTML so that it is more cross-platform, lining...
Read more →I was asked many months ago to travel to Dalian and present at the first annual world congress for cloud computing. At first, because of budget reasons, I wasn’t going to be able to make it, but at the last second the money was found and I was able to present. This conference was...
Read more →Dog Food Conference 2012 is a 2 day conference sponsored and managed by community IT professionals showcasing Microsoft technologies in Columbus, OH. There will be speakers from MS Gold Certified Partners, MVPs, IT authors, MS partner software companies, community leads, and MS Corp subject matter experts. It will be held on November 8th and...
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