Ok. First a few facts. AWS has had a data center problem that has been ongoing for a couple of days. AWS has NOT been forthcoming with much useful information. AWS still has many data centers and cloud regions/etc up and live, able to keep their customers up and live. Many people have NOT built... Continue reading →

Here’s the presentation materials that I’ve put together for tonight. Cloud Formation View more presentations from Adron Hall. Check my last two posts regarding the location & such: Bellingham Cloud Talk, Coming Right Up Bellingham .NET Users Group – Be There! Continue reading →

On April 5th I have a talk lined up with the Bellingham .NET Users Group. So far here’s a quick one over of the talk: What Cloud Computing REALLY is to us techies Geographically dispersed data centers. Node based – AKA grid computing configurations that are… Highly Virtualized – thus distributed. Primarily compute and storage... Continue reading →

First a few tidbits on the latest SDKs. For the latest Windows Azure SDK go check out the Microsoft MSDN Site. For the latest for AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK check out the AWS .NET Site. These two SDKs are great for customers who want to build on the bare bones X platform. Now whatever... Continue reading →

I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. It had been a really long time since I listed the current tools, SDKs, and frameworks that I’ve been using. Thus here’s my entourage of software that I use on a regular basis that is installed on my primary development machines. Continue reading →