Interesting article on how to create a C# project to monitor energy in your house, based on the "Standard Envy Kit" USB interface. Good example of how to create a Web Service and consume / display information on a Windows Phone application. I will report results once I have tried it myself.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coding4fun/archive/2010/09/27/10068304.aspx
Note from the "Architects Rule!" blog on an update for the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, as well as a link to a tutorial on how to use PHP with Azure. Click here to open link…
Great blog entry from J.D. Meier's. Patterns are the easiest way to share strategies for common scenarios. Learning how to use and identify them facilitates the creation of highly efficient software architectures. Click here to open link…
For the December 2012 issue of the MSDN magazine Windows Azure Insider column, Bruno and I take on the session capabilities offered by the Service Bus, allowing developers to group messages and use a private state for storing global values. We also talk about advanced messaging patterns, and their importance when it comes to decoupling…
After an overwhelming number of email messages, feedback and comments based on our previous Windows Azure Insider column, this month Bruno and I continue the conversation around the Internet-of-Things and Windows Azure, incorporating a hands-on approach to using the Service Bus to control an Arduino device using a Windows Phone client. We had a lot…
Please pay special attention to this pattern to avoid: "Running legacy servers using VM Roles". Click here to open link…
Excellent article on how to create a WCF Rest + JSON website, upload it to Azure, and consume it through Silverlight clients, including the Windows Phone. Click here to open link…
