Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #66)

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 is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback:

Articles, Videos and Blog Posts 

• Where Is .NET Headed? (posted May 15)
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .Net – Taking A Second Look At Windows Azure Diagnostics (posted May 12)
• My Google Reader alternative using windows azure mobile services. Part 1 (posted May 12)
• My Google Reader alternative using windows azure mobile services. Part 2 (posted May 14)
• Active Directory in Azure – Step by Step (posted May 9)
• Nifty #windowsazure tips and things you perhaps didn’t know (posted May 3)
• Setup my first Azure Virtual Machine! (posted May 16)
• Going to Microsoft TechEd to Speak About Cloud Integration (posted May 13)
• Interesting Official #windowsazure posters at your disposal…and free ebooks (posted May 12)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings     

North America

• October – June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
• May 17, 2013: Stir Trek: Darkness Edition – Columbus, OH
• May 30, 2013: Matthew Grace has an Azure Framework – Cambridge, MA
• June 1, 2013: Pittsburgh TechFest 2013 – Pittsburgh, PA

Europe

• May 22, 2013 Law in the cloud and Azure—Stockholm, Sweden
• May 27, 2013: WAZUGNL 14: Info Support in Veenendaal – Veenendaal, Netherlands
• June 18, 2013: Scott Klein – All things Azure – Manchester
• June 19, 2013: High Availability and Disaster Recovery in a SQL VM – London

Rest of World/Virtual

• May 18, 2013 Developers Day In Saudi Aramco –Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• May 25, 2013: Welcome to SQLSaturday #224 – Sydney, Australia
• June 5, 2013 Windows Azure? – Herzliyya, Israel

Code:

• astaykov / WaMediaWeb
• phillip-haydon / Sandra.Snow
• phillip-haydon / Sandra.SimpleValidator
• phillip-haydon / Nancy.Raygun

Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• Possible to view azure performance diagnostics via Perfmon – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Azure Media Services upload from HTML from – 1 answer, 1 vote
• How to control NServiceBus queue name when hosted on Azure? – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Windows Azure REST API MediaLink – 1 answer, 1 vote
• azure download subscription file link – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Why does it take so long to get through first level retries? – 3 answers, 0 votes
• How to migrate from Azure SQL to SQL Server? [duplicate] – 2 answers, 2 votes

Mark