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.…
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
- Whitepaper: MongoDB on Windows Azure by @10gen (published 19 Oct)
- Understanding the Size of your Windows Azure SQL Database by @WayneBerry (posted Oct 23)
- Demo: 256 Worker Role 3D Rendering on Windows Azure by @alansmith (posted Oct 22)
- Interoperability Elements of a Cloud Platform: Technical Examples by @gianugo (posted Oct 19)
- NodeJS and Windows Azure: Using Service Bus Queues by Jesus Rodriguez (posted Oct 24)
- Catching the Long Tail with SaaS + Windows Azure by @azugbe (posted Oct 25)
- Exporting and Importing VM settings with the Windows Azure Command-Line Tools by @larry_franks (posted Oct 25)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- October – June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
- October 30-November 2: Microsoft BUILD 2012 – Redmond, WA
- November 1: RightScale Roadtrip – Redwood City, CA
- 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
- Access table storage using OData – 386 views, 7 replies
- “Go to report” in Windows Azure Reporting – 2,488 views, 2 replies
- How to import/export SQL Windows Azure Database from one database server to another programmatically – 418 views, 4 replies
Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- How do I set up multiple threads in a Worker and dispatch messages to them? – 2 answers, 0 votes
- Windows Azure Web Site debugging –1 answer, 1 vote
- Set identity off in Windows Azure SQL Table 3 answers, 0 votes
- Authenticate against Active Dir on remote machine using C#– 1 answer, 1 vote
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