I’ve got some Windows Phone 7 work lined up so thought I’d run through the most recent setup for SDK, Toolkit, and other such items needed for development. I’m working based on the assumption that Visual Studio 2010 is already installed. I’m also assuming the following items are installed, if not, install these before moving... Continue reading →

Tomorrow (Thursday) at Blue Moon Burgers in Fremont will be a nerd lunch. If you’re interested you should definitely head over that way and introduce yourself. Continue reading →

I’ve been working through an architecture scenario recently. This is what I have so far. Multiple external web services, some SOAP and some REST, and some data sources in a SQL Server Database, Azure Table Storage, and flat files of some sort. All of these sources need to be accessed by a web site for... Continue reading →

Just this week I was reading up on two of my hosting providers; smugmug for photographs and videos, and respositoryhosting.com for source control and project tracking. It occurred to me that both companies keep massive uptime and costs to a minimum by using cloud computing technologies. The provider for both being Amazon Web Services. Smugmug... Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago on the Amazon Web Services Blog I experienced a stick up. I shot off a comment about how cool it would be to see some of the AWS Stickers in the wild as one of the comment writers wrote. Jeff Barr, one of the AWS Evangelists, sent me some stickers via... Continue reading →