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Developing for Windows on ARM – looking great!

On June 12th Jason Zander posted What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA)...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/14/2012

Pinning sites in Windows 8 – add two meta tags to make it high quality

Windows 8 IE10 allows you to pin sites to the start screen. But the site end up pinned with a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/10/2012

Windows 8 Tablets… what I’ve spotted so far

We all would love to see the list of Windows 8 tablet machines…but for the moment the OEMs are...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/28/2012

UK company looking to publish a Windows 8 application into the upcoming UK Windows Store?

Then check out the details over on the MSDN blog before doing step 1 – apply to join our shiny new...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/29/2012

Gaurav Mantri of Cerebrata Cloud Storage Studio fame is in London on April 3rd

Cerebrata (now owned UK company Red-Gate) make awesome tools for Windows Azure – thanks largely to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/29/2012

Worldwide Partner Conference in July – I will be there, will you?

I’ve just had confirmation that I will be off to Toronto in July to spend a weak immersing myself in...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/22/2012

My favourite Windows 8 Shortcut keys

In other words… the ones I know about and keep using …and need to jot down somewhere (here!) lest I...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/12/2012

Q&A: Can I use Visual Studio 11 to do Windows Azure development?

This one seems to keep popping up… The following is true as of 12th March 2012 Short Answer: No. You...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/12/2012

FREE events covering Windows 8 for Application Developers start 30th March

My group is laying on a a three city (London, Manchester and Edinburgh) tour which focuses on the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/01/2012

Mini retrospective on Six Weeks of Windows Azure

I have previously posted some of the “raw data” on Six Weeks of Windows Azure but I wanted to also...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/29/2012

Looking back at Six Week of Windows Azure – raw data

I wanted to share some of the “raw data” from Six Weeks of Windows Azure which started way back in...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/29/2012

Windows Azure using CNAME DNS records for multiple sites and SSL

Steve has pulled together a gentle stroll through DNS, CNAME records and multiple web sites and how...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/27/2012

Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role

One of the companies on www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk asked us about the specifics of deploying into a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/08/2012

Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available

Head over to www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk and click on Week 1 and Week 2 to get details. It is not too...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/02/2012

Recordings from Monday 23rd January #6weeksazure sessions now available

Note: for me this service has sometimes not worked today (24th Jan). I have reported it to the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/24/2012

Slides and notes from Monday 23rd January #6weeksazure sessions now available

Now available on SkyDrive. Check out Week1 for slides and “Webinar Notes” for todays notes. We will...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/23/2012

The webinar join links are now live on the website...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/23/2012

Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application

Turned out to be simplicity itself (thanks to this sweet tutorial). Great work team on the Windows...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/19/2012

We kick off 12pm Monday 23rd of January using Live Meeting 2007 #6weeksazure

Next Monday we start Six Weeks of Windows Azure with: The 12pm opening session will look ahead at...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/18/2012

Pause for thought – 4 great questions on Cloud Computing

Ashwin Raghavan contacted me via this blog about the dissertation he is working on for his MBA and...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/18/2012

Very handy utility – hurl.it

This is a very handy utility when working with web apis – I assumed I was last to discover it, turns...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/18/2012

My top 3 improvements in Windows Azure from the December update

In December we announced many improvements to Windows Azure… a month on and I was reflecting upon...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/12/2012

www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk just passed a little milestone–10,000 views #6weeksazure

Just been checking the stats for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk and we just crossed the 10,000 views...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/12/2012

One to watch – Cloud Fundamentals Video Series

A new video series has kicked off over on the Trustworthy Computing blog focused on Cloud...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/11/2012

Industry news…OnLive is expanding to business users… hmmm

The one things that never changes when it comes to “the wonderful world of cloud computing” is… that...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/11/2012

Windows Store is coming in February – will your company have an application in it?

I posted on App Stores and marketplaces in November to raise awareness amongst UK ISVs of what I...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/11/2012

Windows Phone Camps in London (4th Feb) and Bristol (11th Feb)

Registration is now open for the 2012 edition of the Windows Phone Camp (powered by Tech.Days UK)....

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/10/2012

Updated agenda for Six Weeks of Windows Azure now available #6weeksazure

The (almost) final agenda is now available and a little context on what still needs to happen can be...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/10/2012

FREE seminar on Windows Azure February 7th, Basingstoke

ICS Solutions are one of the partners helping us deliver www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/05/2012

Update on Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure

I just wanted to give a brief update on www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd....

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/05/2012

Check out the London Windows Azure User Group

The London Windows Azure Users Group is a new user group founded by Andy Cross, Richard Conway and...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/23/2011

Microsoft Cloud Computing Survey for Software Product Authors (Dec 2011 to Jan 2012)

We are keen to get a feel for the current level of awareness and desire around Cloud Computing and...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/15/2011

On Tuesday David and I delivered a Windows Azure Discovery Workshop in Reading – with festive mince...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/13/2011

Live from Microsoft Redmond: Learn Windows Azure Tues Dec 13th 5pm to 1am UK time

This online event promises to be a great way to spend a Tuesday evening with Microsoft technical...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/08/2011

We have hundreds of software products from UK Independent Software Vendors running on or with the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/05/2011

Draft agenda published for Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure

We are very interested to get feedback on what else you would like to see, any tweaks etc. And to be...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/25/2011

Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012

Yesterday we locked in the dates for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which is fantastic news. We also...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/24/2011

Big thank you to everyone involved in the session yesterday – and well done on the cocktails! And a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2011

Great FREE SQL Server 2012 webinars for UK partners in Nov to March

Microsoft UK has pulled together a great set of on-demand and live webinars to help you get to grips...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2011

On Tuesday David and I delivered a Windows Azure Discovery Workshop in Reading. A big thank you to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/08/2011

Windows 8 and developers

Post BUILD conference, much has been written about “Windows 8” and the impact of the announced...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/03/2011

FREE Windows Azure Discovery Workshop next Tuesday in Reading (8th Nov) – last few spaces

Each month we run “intimate” one day Workshops for UK companies who create software products (ISVs,...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/02/2011

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