Tag: Windows Azure

Today Scott Guthrie announced a Learn Windows Azure event for developers running next week. Many people working with Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET will be familiar with Scott’s work in these areas as well as ASP.NET MVC. From my experience, not so many developers are fully aware of what Windows Azure is and thats why […]

An interesting development in the Cloud Computing world has been the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. The success of companies such as Zynga in social gaming coupled with the predicted growth in revenues generated from social gaming over the next few years has raised the profile of this interesting area of […]

Agile I often see the word “Agile” associated with cloud computing. That’s a word I know well. I wrote a class on Agile Programming, and I teach XP and SCRUM. I believe I’m Agile in my projects. But what does it really mean? For some, “agile” is just a tactful way of saying “get it […]

Over the past few months, I’ve written a series of articles on learning Microsoft Windows Azure. I thought it might be helpful if I listed them all in one place. Windows Azure Training Series – Understanding Subscriptions and Users Windows Azure Training Series – Setting up a Development Environment for Free Windows Azure Training Series – Creating […]

Two of the largest providers of cloud computing services are Microsoft and Amazon. Both companies sell cloud services at every level of the cloud computing stack: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The Windows Azure Platform In the world of cloud computing, Microsoft is probably […]