Bellingham Cloud Talk, Coming Right Up

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 →

Put Stuff in Your Windows Azure Junk Trunk – Windows Azure Worker Role and Storage Queue

Click on Part 1 and Part 2 of this series to review the previous examples and code. First and foremost have the existing code base created in the other two examples opened and ready in Visual Studio 2010. Next, I’ll just start rolling ASAP. In the JunkTrunk.Storage Project add the following class file and code... Continue reading →

Put Stuff in Your Windows Azure Junk Trunk – ASP.NET MVC Application

If you haven’t read Part 1 of this series, you’ll need to in order to follow along with the JunkTrunk Repository. Open the solution up if you haven’t already and navigate to the Models Folder within the ASP.NET MVC JunkTrunk Project. In the folder add another class titled FileItemModel.cs and BlobModel.cs. Add the following properties... Continue reading →

Put Stuff in Your Windows Azure Junk Trunk – Repository Base

Alright, so the title is rather stupid, but hey, it’s fun! 🙂 This project I setup to provide some basic functionality with Windows Azure Storage. I wanted to use each of the three mediums; Table, Blob, and Queue, and this example will cover each of these things. The application will upload and store images, provide... Continue reading →

Free Windows Azure Images…

I created these, prospectively for use in presentations or whatever may call for something of this sort. Since others may be talking about Windows Azure and the innards of the system also, I thought I’d contribute these for free use on the web. I don’t even really care if you attribute me (even though it... Continue reading →