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PowerPoint presentations for the Windows Azure OSS summits in India

For those who attended the Windows Azure OSS Summits (Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore) in India, we just uploaded the PowerPoint presentations used during the different sessions, including: 1. Windows Azure Overview. 2. Building Hybrid Cloud Architectures 3. The OSS Developers Story 4. The OSS Data Story 5. Windows Azure and node.js They can be found here:…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in Argentina, March 2013

Now is the turn for Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we will be talking about the integration between Windows Azure and Open Source technologies. Don’t miss the Python, PHP, Java and node.js sessions, while we show you how to take advantage of multiple database engines – including Azure table storage, MongoDB, neo4j and Cassandra – for…

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Windows Azure Insider March 2013 – Real-World Scenarios for Node.js in Windows Azure

For the March 2013 edition of the Windows Azure Insider column in MSDN Magazine, Bruno Terkaly and I talk about node.js, the javascript server-side programming language that it’s taking the world by storm (for the right use cases). We show you how to create a basic HTTP server, as well as how to use it…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in India, February 2013

Following the successful Windows Azure OSS Summit that I presented in Paris with David Makogon, Bhushan Nene, and Karandeep Anand; we are now flying around the world to meet with Windows Azure developers in India, where we will be visiting three different cities: Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. We will talk about the latest features incorporated…

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Windows Azure Insider January 2013 – Windows Azure Web Sites

For the Windows Azure Insider January 2013 edition, Bruno Terkaly and I talk about Windows Azure Web Sites, one of the newest services offered in the Microsoft cloud platform, allowing developers to rapidly deploy and scale applications based on ASP.Net, PHP or Node.js. I hope that you find it useful.

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Windows Azure Insider December 2012 – Using Service Bus sessions for advanced messaging patterns

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…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in Paris, France; December 4th, 2012

One of the biggest myths about Windows Azure is that it was created with only .NET developers in mind. The reality is that my team has helped multiple companies around the world implement cloud solutions using a variety of programming languages, including Java, PHP, Node.js and Python, among others. Also, it’s not difficult to find…

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MSDN Magazine November 2012 – WAMS: A Robust Back End for Your Device Applications

In this month´s Windows Azure Insider column for MSDN Magazine, Bruno and I talk about Windows Azure Mobile Service, which abstracts many of the common tasks associated with developing solutions for device applications based on asynchronous calls. I hope that you enjoy it and find it helpful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj721590.aspx.

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MSDN Magazine – Windows 8 and Windows Azure: convergence in the cloud

I’d like to share the article that I recently wrote with my friend and colleague Bruno Terkaly for the MSDN Magazine Windows 8 special edition. We show how easy it is to write and host a REST enabled Service in Windows Azure, supporting Windows 8 applications making asynchronous calls to retrieve data. It can be…

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The Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 is now available

I have updated the links on my blog to reflect that the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit is available now. A new page has been added to the main Windows Azure website, where you can find more information on how to use it. Among the changes and new features that you…