• Azure Friday - Many of you may be familiar with Scott Hanselman's video series that he started back in 2013. It may surprise some people to know that Azure is not Scott's day job. I started helping Scott with Azure Friday almost a year ago to limit his burden to the time he spends in the studio. A byproduct of that is that we're able to produce and publish more episodes, which means we've outgrown the name. Perhaps you should think of it as Azure Fri-yay, or every day is Friday in Azure?
• Last week in Azure - This is a new thing I started on the Azure blog to help current and prospective Azure customers keep up to speed with what's happening in Azure each week. To consume all the content that comes out each week is nearly a full-time job on its own. Ain't nobody got time for that.

• Cloud Architecture Whiteboard Webinar Series - I interviewed members of the patterns & practices team on how to address common challenges that engineers and developers face when designing cloud-based solutions. Each webinar in the series will focus on a set of design patterns that address a fundamental design challenge.
• Cloud Design Patterns Poster - This poster depicts common problems in designing cloud-hosted applications and design patterns that offer guidance. Each of the patterns covered in the webinar series is included here, but the poster is a superset of those and others.
• Web for Containers explainer video - Some of the hardest content projects are when you have to be as concise as possible because you only have x words or y minutes. It's living the classic Pascal quote, "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
• Everything else I've published on Channel 9 - There are things on there other than Azure Friday. Sometimes it's a minor post-production role, other times it's deeper involvement in the content itself. But as demonstrated in the webinar series above, I'm better off behind the camera instead of in front of it.

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Late November is when many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving and give thanks for what they have. I'm thankful for my time at Microsoft and the many awesome and interesting people who I worked and traveled with over the years. When she was little, my daughter, Stephanie, used to draw on my whiteboard (at least the part she could reach), and now she's a college graduate and engaged to be married. I'm thankful for what my career and benefits at Microsoft have afforded her. And most of all, I'm thankful to my wife, Nicole, for putting up with the countless times I worked weekends and holidays, brought a work laptop on vacation, missed dinner with the family, and pulled all-nighters readying for another product launch.

All the journeys of this great adventure
It didn't always feel that way
I wouldn't trade them because I made them
The best I could, and that's enough to say

Some days were dark
I wish that I could live it all again
Some nights were bright
I wish that I could live it all again

Walt Disney is quoted as saying, “I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.” Let’s not lose sight of one thing – that Micro Soft was all started by a developer tool.

The future disappears into memory,
With only a moment between,
Forever dwells in that moment,
Hope is what remains to be seen.

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