Azure and interoperability

Microsoft announced at PDC09 that they will support more platforms than just .NET on Windows Azure. Azure now has an interoperability page where they show some of the options.
SDKs’ for

PHP
Java
Ruby

Tools for

Eclipse
Java
Ruby
PHP

This really broadens the potential customer base. Pair the Eclipse Tools for Windows Azure with the newly acquired TeamPrise offering and Java developers [...]

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More fun stuff from PDC09

Don Box and Chris Anderson showed an example where they used CGI, C and Assembler to write a Windows Azure application. Assembler on Azure?!
Bob Muglia showed Project Sydney – a way to connect applications running in the cloud to servers running in your local datacenters. Sydney will come out as beta early next year.
Virtual Machine [...]

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News from PDC09

Unfortunately I’m not at this years PDC. Would really have liked to go there..
Right now I’m looking for the keynote video, but it’s not available yet. Found some interesting information about what was covered on the keynote at Microsoft PressPass: Microsoft Cloud Services Vision Becomes Reality With Launch of Windows Azure Platform.
Especially three new things [...]

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My idea just sunk…

I had an idea for the Windows Azure Developer Challenge (Swedish). One of the major parts of the idea was to read files from Live Mesh. I just forgot one very important thing..  As of September 8th, the Live Framework CTP will be unavailable. My idea just sunk. If I can’t read files from Live [...]

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.NET Technology Roadmap

On 30:th of September I was at Microsoft and listened to Michelle Leroux Bustamente who was giving a seminar called “NET Technology Roadmap” (Swedish intro: at PC-Ware). Michelle’s title “Survive the Technology Avalanche” had a bit more bite to it
Slides, code and other resources is now available online.
dasBlonde – Survive the Technology Avalanche [...]

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SQL Azure Database CTP is here

Steve Marx tweeted that the SQL Azure Database CTP is here. I Just signed up for it, will be fun to try out.
I firmly believe that Azure needs a solid SQL storage to succeed. SQL Azure seems to be Microsofts SQL cloud offering.
Once I receive an account I plan to take (parts of) [...]

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Have to try out the new SDS stuff

Have to try out the new relational SDS stuff on Azure. A good start would be to download and test Jeffs code (C#) that he put up on his blog.
Btw: he has an example using Java and JDBC as well.

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Trying out Microsoft Online Services

I registered for the free trial of Microsoft Online Services that I wrote about earlier. It’s a bit confusing the whole concept and admin stuff, but I’m just playing with it so far. The Sharepoint Online stuff looks almost exactly like an ordinary MOSS installation, I whonder why
I will try out some more [...]

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SQL Data Services going relational

Microsoft announced today that SDS are getting relational features and dropping the ACE (Authority, Container, Entity) features. It will still be possible to use HTTP/REST to access relation datá through ADO.NET data services. I think this is good news, I wasn’t all that comfortable with the ACE concept as a replacement for SQL. So much [...]

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Spotify add-in for Internet Explorer

Mikael Deurell has made a Spotify Internet Explorer add-in. Take a look at Mikaels blogg. It enables you to search for (in IE) selected text in Spotify.

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