Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #49)

Editor’s note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager.

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 is what we pulled together this week based on your feedback:

Articles, Videos and Blog Posts

• Blog: Bright HDInsight Part 5: Better status reporting in HDInsight by @andybareweb  (posted Dec. 13)
• Blog: Bright HDInsight Part 4: Blob Storage in Azure Storage Vault (examples in C#) by @andybareweb  (posted Dec. 10)
• Blog: Bright HDInsight Part 3: Using custom Counters in HDInsight by @andybareweb  (posted Dec. 9)
• Blog: Deploy your legacy ASP.NET Web Site to Windows Azure Web Sites by @sandrinodm (posted Dec. 12)
• Blog: A way to upload files to Windows Azure Mobile Services by @ZeroKoll (posted Dec. 13)
• Github Project: SQL Database backups to Azure Storage by Richard Astbury (posted Dec. 14)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings

North America

• October – June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
• January 8 – 11: CodeMash 2013 – Sandusky, OH

Europe

• January 16 – 17: Warm Crocodile Developer Conference – Copenhagen, Denmark
• January 17: A Windows Azure Update – West Yorkshire, England
• January 25: HDInsight on Azure – London, England

Rest of World/Virtual

• Ongoing:  Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand

Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions onStack Overflow

• “physicalDirectory” and “Port” in.csdef file– 1 answer, 0 votes
• Prevent hotlinking in Azure Blob Storage – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Currency Settings in Azure – 2 answers, 1 vote
• Lucene.NET and storing data on Azure Blob Storage  – 1 answer, 3 votes

If you have comments or suggestions for the weekly roundup, or would like to get more involved in a Windows Azure community, drop me a line on twitter @markjbrown

Mark