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 →

I had a concern about Windows OS being used for cloud computing. The instances in Windows Azure take a significant amount of time to boot up. In Amazon Web Services the Windows EC2 Instances also take a long time to boot up. Compared to Linux, Windows takes 2-4x longer to spool up in the cloud.... Continue reading →

This is a quick entry just to show how to migrate an existing ASP.NET (or ASP.NET MVC) Web Application to Windows Azure. Make sure you have the Azure Tools SDK installed before stepping through this, otherwise you’ll get an empty project folder and end up with web page in Visual Studio. With your existing solution/project... Continue reading →