Welcome to the latest 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 and Blog Posts
- MVC4, Git, (Windows) Azure and Facebook…Oh My! by @Denifia (posted Aug 2)
- Windows Azure Authentication Library: A Deep Dive by @vibronet (posted Aug 1)
- Cool Cloud Stuff for Java Programmers by @HockeyGeekGirl (posted Aug 1)
- (Windows) Azure Tools Belt: Auto-scaling Application Block – WASABi by @fboucheros (posted Aug 1)
- Guest Post: Windows Azure SQL Databases in Action by Gareth Hewitt (posted Aug1)
- How to Install Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone by @fincooper (posted July 31)
- How to Use CakePHP on Windows Azure Web Sites by @SyntaxC4 (posted July 30)
- Introducing azureQuery: the JavaScript-Windows Azure Bridge by @davidpallmann (posted July 29)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- August 13-15: That Conference – Wisconsin Dells, WI
- August 15: Chicago Windows Azure Cloud User Group Meeting – Chicago, IL
- August 15: NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group Meeting – New York, NY
- August 23: Vancouver Windows Azure Meetup Group – Vancouver, BC, Canada
- September 5-7: Heartland Developer Conference – Omaha, NE
- September 27: Boston Windows Azure Cloud User Group Meeting – Boston, MA
- September 6-October 11: Cloud OS Signature Event Series – Various (16 cities)
Rest of World
- August 9: Windows Azure Sydney User Group – Sydney Australia
- August 29: Dutch Windows Azure User Group – Vianen, Netherlands
- September 27-28: CloudBurst 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden
Recent Windows Azure MSDN Forums Discussion Threads
- Cannot Delete Storage Account – 1,628 views, 5 replies
- How to Create the Service Bus Namespace Programmatically? – 1,720 views, 3 replies
- Debugging in Role Environment – 785 views, 6 replies
Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- How Can I Shake Relational Database Thinking for Designing a (Windows) Azure Table Storage Datastore – 3 answers, 2 votes
- (Windows) Azure: Worker Role Write on c: or Local Storage – 3 answers, 0 votes
Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And 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!
Himanshu