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I have the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the Microsoft @Cloud Conference in Korea next week. I’m not sure how many people from Korea (if any!) follow my blog, but if you do and are planning to come, I would love to meet you. This will be my third trip to Korea and I’m [...]
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with Jean Paoli’s team at Microsoft to create an application that runs across multiple cloud vendors. Jean’s team has been working on a number of SDKs for PHP and Java, and I wanted to create a sample that demonstrated all of them working together. The result is [...]
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If you’ve been following the recent developments on Windows Azure, you are probably aware that the July CTP of Windows Azure introduced support for FastCGI. One of the benefits of supporting FastCGI is the ability to run PHP applications in the Azure fabric. If you are a developer using the Eclipse IDE, this month marks [...]
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Since returning from Europe a couple of weeks ago, I've been asked if my presentations were recorded, especially for the demos shown. A number of events did record the session, and I'm sure they will be making these available soon, but in meantime I have put together screencasts for each of my demos. The first [...]
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One of the conferences that I regularly look forward to is PDC. This year will be the first in a move to an annual format, as traditionally it has only been every two years. If you are on the fence about going, it looks like there is only one more day to register (to qualify [...]
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Brad beat me to blogging this, but he, Arturo, Adam, and I will be traveling to Europe at the end of the month to deliver several sessions across numerous web developer, designer, and architect conferences throughout Europe. My schedule takes me to the following places: Tuesday 22nd September (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Presenting “Patterns for Cloud Computing” [...]
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Over the past few months I’ve been working with many customers and internal groups to try and determine whether there is a common set of patterns for cloud computing. As you’ve probably read, many people are claiming to do cloud computing, so my goal has been to explore the types of applications that people are [...]
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