Of all the cloud providers out there, AppHarbor easily provides the smoothest deployment experience for .NET available today. I did this in one shot, including a few mistypes, and still deployed an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application to AppHarbor in 3 minutes and 50 seconds. 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 →

Windows Azure AppFabric is arguably the main feature set that truly sets Windows Azure apart from any cloud services on the market today. The AppFabric allows cloud users to hookup on-premises services to their cloud services, to secure cloud & on-premises services with new or existing security measures, cache Internet or other content, and on... Continue reading →

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 →