Daily Buzz In the Cloud November 11, 2008
Well you're lucky. I'm waiting for my Hyper-V virtual machines to migrate from my test box to our new Hyper-V test bed -- two Xeon E7300 (Quad Core), 32 GB RAM -- so I can install Windows 7 directly on a machine. I've already tried it out in a VM...I'm happy with its performance so far. So now I want to unleash it. Anyway, while I'm waiting for the VMs to transfer, there's no better time to give you today's buzz.
What Would Be on a Cloud’s Todo List
Tanzim Saqib has posted an article on building applications for Windows Azure entitled appropriately enough “Building Applications for Windows Azure.” He shows how to build a todo list for the clouds including connecting the application to SQL Services for data storage. It’s a great article and an excellent starting point for learning Windows Azure.
PDC Live Blogger
Lars Wilhelmsen, kept a live blog of the keynotes and sessions he attended at PDC. It’s interesting to compare and contrast his notes with another PDC Live Blogger we all know and love. Although you can watch the keynotes and sessions for yourself, the live blogs might help you to skip forward to an interesting point in the presentation.
Notes From the Trenches
Shan McArthur, senior architect of ADXSTUDIO CMS (the first Windows Azure enabled CMS), shares his notes on designing for the cloud. It's especially interesting to note how good design practices on the existing code base enabled an easy transistion to the cloud for their application. The only caveat regarding his post was his admonition that there are no Stored Procedures in the Cloud. A member of the Azure team pointed out that resource scripts can run on the cloud and can act as SDS Stored Procedures if so desired.
Extra Extra...
Ryan Dunn has a blog that you should add to your reader...like yesterday. He has been writing about his experiences with "Astoria"/ADO.NET Data Services/SQL Data Services since the original CTP. You'll find a lot of good content on his site.
Sorry if the buzz has been a little lighter these past two days than normal. There is more news out there to share I'm just a little distracted...oops VMs are done, time for fun! I'll catch you all later...keep your head in the cloud!