In the last blog entry, “Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles”, I covered the creation and startup of a web role within the Windows Azure Development Fabric and observing the web role with the Windows Azure Compute Emulator. In this blog entry I’ll cover the worker role. Continue reading →

This is a follow up to the previous blog entry I wrote pertaining to Windows Azure Roles. I wanted to cover the bases on the various technical aspects of creating a Windows Azure Web Role & Worker Role in Visual Studio 2010. Without interruption let’s just dive right in. Start Visual Studio 2010 and initiate... Continue reading →

This is a write up I’ve put together of how the roles in Windows Azure work. As far as I know, this is all correct – but if there are any Windows Azure Team Members out there that wouldn’t mind providing some feedback about specifics or adding to the details I have here – please... Continue reading →

PaaS stands for Platform as a Service. The new concept around Devops* (Developer + Operations) has allowed cloud computing to reach an apex of agility for business. For developers PaaS provides an ultimately clean and agile experience around staging and deployment. PaaS is also the highest level of cost savings for most prospective enterprise and... Continue reading →

Recently a discussion popped up on the Seattle ALT.NET group. I put together some of the conferences that were brought up. I may, or may not, be attending some of these. So far this is my “Ruby on Rails” and “.NET” Conference list. I really need to figure out with big data, NoSQL, and Cloud... Continue reading →