Just a few links for today. I am still hustling together some code for the Kata that I am working up related to real world testing – ala TDD. In the meantime, check out some cloud tidbits. Continue reading →

Recently Amazon jumped into the relational database cloud competition with Microsoft. Up until the 6th of this month, Microsoft had the only cloud with a real dedicated relational database offering in SQL Azure. Now Amazon has their Relational Database Service heating up the competition. In other news, Google finally joined the storage party with their... Continue reading →

Just a few of the key points brought up during the #altnet meeting on Saturday this weekend. There were a number of other topics, but these stuck in my mind as something I am more interested in. katas | How to transition the learning from katas into the more elaborate testing realm of fakes, mocks,... Continue reading →

I have been in many conversations lately about Software as a Service (Saas) and Cloud Infrastructure & Technology. In those conversations I have found that there is commonly a mixing of what people think Saas and Cloud actually mean. In reality, there are two autonomous concepts and Cloud should not be used interchangeably with Saas.... Continue reading →

I was working through some scenarios recently with Azure and Silverlight. I immediately decided a quick walk through for setting up a Silverlight Application running in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Application would be a cool project. This walk through I have Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, and the Azure SDK all installed. If you need... Continue reading →