Nearly a year ago I made a post about how to deploy your Windows Azure applications to the cloud as part of your daily build.
Well, times have changed and our tools for Windows Azure have got a little shinier, making cloud deployments much easier.
This update was something that I had been itching to do for [...]

RiskMetrics is on of the leading providers of financial risk analysis and I have had the pleasure to be working with them over the past couple of months to deliver their RiskBurst platform.
The RiskMetrics guys, Rob Fraser (Head of Cloud Computing) and Rich Bower (Dev Lead) and myself will be delivering a presentation on the [...]

On one of my previous projects we had heard management talking about getting the team to give open and honest feedback to each other, what everyone was doing well, where people needed improvement this was both in a technical and social context.
After hearing this our dev lead on the project Simon Middlemiss decided to [...]

Vote for my session
Voting for sessions at DDD Scotland is open and this is a plea that you all go and vote for my session at the event (doesn’t even matter if your attending – just vote for me).
I will be doing a session on what I have learned about Azure and cloud computing [...]

Registration for Developer Developer Developer 2010 will open later today at 13:00, but you better be quick to sign up as last years tickets were snapped up in a few hours.
This year boasts some of the best sessions that I have seen in a while with proposed (corrected by @plip) presentations on a wide range [...]

Now I can see why some people have been raving about Google’s Chrome browser, it not only serves up the internet … it can teleport goats!!
Want to transport some Goats Yourself?
Follow these easy repro steps:
0. Download and launch Google Chrome 1. Shift + Esc 2. Right click [...]

One things I am constantly falling into the trap of doing is naming my message queues using camel casing when naming my queues giving names such as “mySuperQueue” which ends up throwing the below error. Which because it gives us very little information tends to lead to me debugging the code for a while before [...]

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 [...]