Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights for this week.

Articles, Videos and Blog Posts

• Article:  An Introduction to Windows Azure Table Storage by Mike Wood (Published 11/14)
• Blog: On #WindowsAzure by Alexandre Brisebois (Published 11/19)
• Blog: Windows Azure Storage Performance Best Practices by Nuno Godinho (published 11/20)
• Blog : Windows Azure Views by Grant Fritchey (published on 11/19)
• Blog: SQL Server 2014 Hybrid: Storing data files in Azure storage – Bizarre or not?  by Greg Low (published 11/20)
• Blog: MessageHandler – Early adopter program by Yves Goeleven (published 11/18)
• Blog: How to choose a No SQL Database by Manu Cohenn (published 11/10)
• Blog: Create Predictable GUIDs for your Windows Azure Table Storage Entities by Alexandre Brisebois (11/14)
• Blog: Windows Store App Notifications, the Notification Hub and Background tasks by Steve Spencer (published 11/15)
• Blog: More updates to Azure: Which changes relate to SQL people?  by Greg Low (published 11/14)
• Blog: The #windowsazure story continuous … in integration and delivery … TFS + VS online #mvpbuzz by Mike Martin (published 11/13)
• Blog: Windows Azure Portal Enhancements 2013-11 by Marcel Meijer (published 11/11)
• Blog: Configuring external startup tasks on an Azure cloud service by David Rodriguez (published 11/1)
• Blog: Windows Azure Scheduler Service – Part I: Introduction by Gaurav Mantri (published 11/10)
• Blog: Windows Azure tools 2.2 by Marcel Meijer (published 10/11)
• Article: Storing and Access Data in Windows Azure by Eric D. Boyd (published 11/8)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings

 North America

January 18, 2014: Samedi Architecture & Azure  – Montreal, Canada

Europe

December 5^th – 6^th: IG2013 Conference  – Crewe Hall, UK

November 12^th – 13^th: SharePoint Days 2013 – Slovenia

December 4^th: Architecture Forum in the North – Tong, UK

• December 5-6 – Crewe Hallin, England

December 7^th: CloudBrew – A Full-Day of Windows Azure  – Mechelen, Belgium

December 10^th: Azug – A Lap Around Windows Azure BizTalk Services  – Ghent, Belgium

Rest of World/Virtual

Ongoing:  Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand

Code:

Azure Management Script Pack 

Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

Answers:

How does Azure Service Bus identify a duplicate message? – 1 answer, 4 votes

Best practices for cron job style tasks on the ASP.NET MVC / Azure platform? – 4 answers, 4 votes

Upload Largefile to Azure Blob using Javascript? – 1 answer, 2 votes

Need to use appsettings in azure service? – 1 answer, 2 votes

Transfer files from Azure PaaS VM to IaaS VM? – 1 answer, 2 votes

Windows Azure Application high volume of records insertions? -1 answer, 0 votes

Upload a page blob to azure using REST API python?– 2 answers, 0 votes

Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. Also, let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.

Have a great weekend!

Mark Brown