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, Videos and Blog Posts
- Article: Cloud Computing Reference Architecture: Data Ingress and Storage Access by @buckwoody (published Oct 24)
- Blog: Data paging using the Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS client SDK by Ralph Squillance (published Oct 28)
- Blog: Build a Location API Using Entity Framework Spatial and Web API, on Windows Azure Web Sites by @bradygaster (posted Oct 29)
- Blog: Windows Azure Websites – A New Hosting Model for Windows Azure by @mikewo (posted Oct 29)
- Presentation: Enhance mobile applications with Windows Azure by @fincooper (posted Oct 31)
- Blog: Common Port Related Troubleshoot in Windows Azure by Nabarun Sengupta (posted Nov 1)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- October – June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
- November 12: (Satory Global) Windows Azure Developer Camp – Mtn. View, CA
- December 4: MongoSV – Silicon Valley, CA
Europe
- November 5 – 9: Oredev – Malmo, Sweden
- November 19: WAZUGNL 11: Sharepoint Connections in Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rest of World/Virtual
- Ongoing: Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand
Community Discussions and Forums
Recent Windows Azure MSDN Forums Discussion Threads
- Built in SQL Azure Backup Support – 1,100 views, 5 replies
- Azure Caching (preview) host autodiscovery hangs on some machines – 562 views, 19 replies
- Upload Image /Video file into Windows Azure Blob in Windows 8 Modern UI app – 1,284 views, 6 replies
Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- Form Authentication/Profile slow on Azure cloud, fine locally – 1 answers, 4 votes
- Simple VB/SQL app and Windows Azure – 4 answers, 1 vote
- How to map a wildcard domain to a Windows Azure Website instance – 1 answer, 0 votes
- Azure Caching System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException – 0 answers, 2 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