Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #12)

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Let me know what you think about these posts via comments below, or on Twitter @WindowsAzure. Here are the highlights from last week.

Articles and Blog Posts

• (Windows) #Azure Action Community Newsletter 28^th March 2012 by @drmcghee (posted Mar. 28)
• Best Practices for Building Windows Azure Service by Qingsong Yao (posted Mar. 28)
• A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community Perspective) by @dennylee (posted Mar. 27)
• Developing for Windows Azure in WordPress by @benlobaugh (posted Mar. 26)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer by @alansmith (posted Mar. 23)

Upcoming Events, and User Group Meetings

• April 3:  UK Windows Azure User Group – London, UK
• April 4:  CloudCamp Vienna – Vienna, Austria
• April 4: Houston Cloud Tech Symposium – Houston, TX
• April 4: Windows Azure UK User Group – Manchester, UK
• April 26:  Sales@night: (Windows) Azure –  Brussels, Belgium
• April 28: Vancouver TechFest 2012 – Burnaby, BC, Canada
• May 11: Windows Azure Bootcamp – London, UK
• May 18:  Windows Azure Bootcamp – Liverpool, UK
• Ongoing:  Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts – Online 

Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads

• Windows Azure REST API – 255 views, 6 replies
• Increasing role count takes site offline? – 707 views, 10 replies
• (SQL) Azure:  problem with ‘Test Connectivity’ – 1,031 views, 9 replies
• Delete entities in (Windows) Azure Table Storage – 623 views, 6 replies

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