You know what really grinds my gears…  having to download multiple applications when the functionality should be in one place.
RSS applications are one such pain area, why would I want to have to load up another application each morning, especially when I live in Outlook.
I had previously used NewsGator to sync my feeds online and [...]

Over the past few months I have been part of an extremely exciting project, I am pleased that I am finally able to share it with you.
Eye On Earth is a new application that provides air and water quality to more than 500 million people across Europe, using both measurement stations and modelling data, along [...]

The guys over at NxtGenUG Oxford have invited me along on the 5th of January 2010 to give a talk on Windows Azure and to share what I have learned over the past couple of months whilst developing on the platform.
Along with my talk, Ben Nunney will be giving a presentation on Powershell for [...]

PDC brought a lot of new cloud content to Azure, however one great feature that has been added to the Windows Azure portal seems to have been slightly overlooked.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) calculator allows end users and organisations see how much money they are likely to save [...]

SQL Azure, that’s just a SQL Database in the cloud right? Wrong… It actually offers all this and then some.
This new “hand drawn” video from the SQL Azure team shows why SQL Azure is much more than just a simple database and how it can make life easier and cheaper for all those database guys [...]

At various time during project I have found that when developing with Silverlight, I have wanted the browser to act as if Silverlight had not been installed on my machine.
This has primarily been to test out the welcome / install screen if the end user does not have Silverlight install. The easiest and quickest way [...]

As part of the Eye On Earth (link) launch today, we have a video demonstration of the project by Ludo de Bock  (Senior Director – Microsoft)along with a discussion about how the project can engage both European citizens and governments using real time environmental data by Rob Bernard (Chief Environmental Strategist – Microsoft) and Prof. [...]

After months of hard work the Eye On Earth project has been launched and released to the public (go take a look).
The project undertaken for the European Environmental Agency allows users to view and rate up to date environmental information about both the air and water quality around Europe, utilizing many bleeding edge technologies such [...]

Last week I had an article featured in the UK MSDN Flash magazine, the article was describing how I have set up your automated builds to deploy to Windows Azure using the recently released management services.

The article “Deploying to the Cloud as Part of Your Daily Build” can be found here.
You can also find [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I presented on “What Is Windows Azure?” at the first Reading Geek Night. This presentation was aimed at people who are new to the world of Windows Azure and aimed to be a quick introduction to wet their appetites.

What Is Windows Azure
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