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 5th – 6th: IG2013 Conference – Crewe Hall, UK
November 12th – 13th: SharePoint Days 2013 – Slovenia
December 4th: Architecture Forum in the North – Tong, UK
December 7th: CloudBrew – A Full-Day of Windows Azure – Mechelen, Belgium
December 10th: Azug – A Lap Around Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Ghent, Belgium
Rest of World/Virtual
Ongoing: Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand
Code:
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
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Have a great weekend!