Overall I’d love to see two things for the cloud community. Stop accepting the “Security is a Concern because I’m scared and haven’t been paying attention” and just start implementing. The reason being is those same people that are kicking and dragging their feet into the future will keep kicking and dragging their feet. Eventually... Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the big day! So be sure to come check out CloudCamp Seattle! We’re going to have a lot of great attendees, some rock star lightning talks and more. Make sure to get registered ASPA (click on the CloudCamp image above). Location: Amazon HQ 426 Terry Avenue North (At South Lake Union) 2nd Floor... Continue reading →

Alright, time for the battle o’ clouds to roll on. In this throw down I’m going to compare platforms from the infrastructure and platform perspective. Windows Azure takes a very distinctive, and unique, Platform as a Service (PaaS) model and Amazon Web Services takes a very Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. Each of these... Continue reading →

I’ve been stumbling through getting familiar with Git over the last couple of weeks. It’s the source repository we use at work (thank goodness I’m rid of the damnable TFS nonsense!) and I have officially moved all of my Subversion & even Mercurial Repositories to Git. I really enjoy using Unfuddle, so have moved back... Continue reading →

In the first part of this two part series I reviewed what table storage in Windows Azure is. In addition I began a how-to for setting up an ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application for accessing the Windows Azure Table Storage (sounds like keyword soup all of a sudden!). This sample so far is enough to... Continue reading →