22 February 2010 0 Comments

Neudesic Migrates Quark Promote to Windows Azure

In this interview, Chris Rolon, Architect Evangelist and Employee #1 at Neudesic , talks with Microsoft Partner Evangelist John McClelland, about his latest passion, Microsoft’s Azure offering for cloud computing. Chris discusses his experience migrating Quark Promote to the Azure Services Platform

9 January 2010 0 Comments

SQL Azure North Europe is Online

It’s been great to see the enthusiasm of people looking forward to using the entire Windows Azure Platform in Europe. I’m happy to announce that SQL Azure is now available in North Europe

4 January 2010 0 Comments

Announcing Windows Azure platform commercial offer availability and updated AppFabric pricing

As part of today’s announcement about the commercial availability of Windows Azure platform offers , we are also introducing updated pricing for the Windows Azure platform AppFabric, which helps developers connect cloud and on-premises applications. Based on discussion and feedback from hundreds of customers during the CTP process, we have made the pricing simpler and more predictable.

18 November 2009 0 Comments

pdc09: links para PinPoint, Dallas, AppFabric, Sync Framework e muito mais…

Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Direto do PDC09, segue abaixo os principais links para algumas das tecnologias anunciadas nesses dois dias de evento: Microsoft PinPoint Ref.: http://www.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/about.aspx Microsoft Codename “Dallas” Ref.: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/Dallas Windows Server AppFabric Ref.: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849.aspx Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+(Microsoft+Download+Center Em breve, vamos falar mais de cada uma dessas tecnologias e serviços, avaliando a importância para nossa arquitetura de soluções

9 November 2009 0 Comments

Windows Azure: vídeos, links e mais documentação

Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Hoje é dia de Windows Azure, sem dúvida! :) Já aquecendo os motores para o que será o lançamento da plataforma durante o PDC 2009, segue mais uma dica de conteúdo sobre o Windows Azure e seus recursos: Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/products/ No link acima você encontra videos, textos e mais documentação sobre os principais recursos da plataforma Azure! Destaque para o desenho animado, muito explicativo e divertido! :)   Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/videoPlayerPopup.aspx?w=720&h=480&vid=WinAzPlatform_720x480_FINAL_101609.wmv Não deixe de conferir!!! Por enquanto é só! Até o próximo post :) Waldemir.

21 September 2009 0 Comments

ARCast.TV – Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast!

Bob Familiar interviews Jeromy Carriere on the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method (LAAAM), a fast and efficient way to make good architectural decisions that are aligned with the needs of your business.

17 September 2009 0 Comments

Short blip in service availability today

We experienced a short blip in the availability of SQL Azure today and I wanted to post a quick note to let you know what happened.

11 September 2009 0 Comments

No countdown para o ReMIX

No countdown até dia 2 de Outubro, e porque iremos contar igualmente com uma track para Arquitectos, Luis Alves Martins, responsável pela track , adianta-nos: ‘O tema da track de arquitectos será claramente Cloud Computing. Cloud computing e em especial o Windows Azure estão a atrair as atenções da comunidade devido ao conjunto de inovações inerentes, e à nova forma como abordaremos o desenvolvimento e deployment de aplicações. A abstracção em relação ao hardware permite um foco completo na construção de soluções e consequentemente no core business das empresas

6 September 2009 0 Comments

Comparing Two Images in C#

I’ve recently been doing a bit of work generating images, I have also need to compare the images that I generate with an image that has already exists. I found a number of web sites that suggested the following way of comparing two images, by cycling through each pixel in an image and returning false if there is a mismatch in the pixels

3 September 2009 0 Comments

.NET Services Scheduled Maintenance (September 8th, 2009)

  .NET Services Scheduled Maintenance (September 8 th , 2009) When: Start:  08:00hrs PDT, September 8 th , 2009 End:  14:00hrs PDT, September 8 th , 2009   What: Routine maintenance on the storage layer of the Access Control Service.   Impact Alert: Customers can expect intermittent timeouts on Access Control operations during this maintenance window. This will also impact ServiceBus and Portal.

1 September 2009 0 Comments

REST med WCF 4 Beta 1

Med WCF 4 introduceras en hel del nyheter. Denna artikel fortsätter på det REST-tema jag påbörjade tidigare och fokuserar specifikt på vad som är nytt i WCF 4 Beta 1 som hjälper oss i byggandet av REST-tjänster. Inte helt oväntat är det till stor del funktionalitet som vi känner igen från REST Starter Kit som nu hittat in i själva ramverket

30 August 2009 0 Comments

Popfly Game Engine Released to Codeplex

Ben Anderson just released the source code for the Popfly Game Engine on codeplex.  It’s an interesting bit of code showing how to create a simple game engine in C# on Silverlight.  This should also provide an avenue for those of you who would like to take the leap from the world of the GUI game builder, look under the covers to see how things work and actually get your hands dirty with some real code. It doesn’t include the creator nor any server-side support code