Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager.
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 is what we pulled together for the past two weeks based on your feedback:
Articles, Videos and Blog Posts
- Blog: How to make Windows Azure as an Extension of On-Premises Data Center - by @NunoGodinho (posted Feb. 28)
- Blog: Evaluation Cloud Computing Uptime SLAs - by @toddysm (posted Feb. 26)
- Blog: Sample Pricing Comparison: On-Premise vs. Private Hosting vs. Cloud Computing - by @hroggero (posted Feb. 25)
- Blog: Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm - by @maartenballiauw (posted Feb. 25)
- Blog: Federating IdentityServer with Windows Azure Active Directory - by @leastprivilege (posted Feb. 24)
- Blog: Detecting Expired PKI Certificates - by @wadewegner (posted Feb. 23)
- Blog: Enabling Remote Desktop on Ubuntu in Windows Azure - by @azurecoder (posted Feb. 20)
- Blog: It’s a #windowsazure storage manager but not as we know it: Introducing ZUD.IO by Mark Rendle - by @techmike2kx (posted Feb.19)
- Blog: GlobalWindowsAzure a truly global Windows Azure community event by @noopman (posted Feb. 19)
- Blog: Publishing ASP.NET Web Sites to “Windows Azure Web Sites” Service by @rseroter (posted Feb. 18)
- Blog: Uploading Large Files in Windows Azure Blob Storage Using Shared Access Signature, HTML, and JavaScript by @gmantri (posted Feb. 16)
- Blog: Welcome to Muon by @richorama (posted Feb. 15)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- October - June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
Europe
- February 27, 2013: Windows Azure and Twilio - A happy tale to tell - Zaventem, Brussels
- February 20, 22, 26, 2013; Windows Azure Open Platform Services Summit - Mumbai, Pune & Bangalore, India
- February 28-March 1, 2013: Windows Azure Camp - Brussels, Belgium
- March 4-6, 2013: Scandinavian Developer Conference - Goteborg, Sweden
- March 5-7, 2013: TechDays 2013 - Antwerp, Belgium
- March 6, 2013: Technical Update for the Microsoft Platform 2013 - London, England
- March 13, 2013: Windows Azure Info Day - Bad Homburg, Germany
- April 10-11, 2013: Microsoft Synopsis 2013 - Darmstadt, Germany
- April 17-19, 2013: Database Days 2013 - Baden, Switzerland
- April 24-25, 2013: Events and Workshops - Brussels, Belgium
Rest of World/Virtual
- April 27, 2013: Global Windows Azure Bootcamp - Various Locations
- Ongoing: Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand
Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- Azure Table Storage Parallel Query - 2 answers, 1 vote
- Azure performance between storage accounts - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Azure Storage Table design with multiple query points - 3 answers, 1 vote
- site-to-site VPN between Windows Azure and Amazon AWS - 1 answer, 3 votes
- Backup Azure Virtual Machine local folders to blob storage? 1 answer, 0 votes
- Azure ServiceBus how to do incremental production deployment - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Web Role Scaling in Windows Azure - 2 answers, 0 votes
- What Constitutes a Compute Hour or Cost/Hour - 3 answers, 2 votes
- Storing MemoryStream File to Azure Blob - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Get last blob in azure blob storage - 2 answers, 0 votes
- How do I deploy a certificate to the Trusted People store in Azure? - 1 answer, 1 vote
- Best way to upload a blob with a huge size in GBs to azure in the fastest time - 1 answer, 1 vote
- How to do inter-role communication with Azure? - 1 answer, 1 vote
Mark