Share via


The Silver Lining Blog

Open Source and Device Development in the Cloud

Pie in the Sky (August 2nd, 2013)

Trying something different this week and adding a client/mobile section for client-side things. I...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 08/02/2013

Pie in the Sky (July 26th, 2012)

Happy almost-forgot-to-post Friday! Here's a list of links for your weekend reading: Cloud A...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 07/26/2013

Pie in the Sky (July 19, 2013)

Another busy week is over. I didn't get out to many sites this week as I had some projects that took...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 07/19/2013

Pie in the Sky (July 12, 2013)

It's Friday once again, and here's a list of links for your weekend reading. Hopefully you will find...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 07/12/2013

Custom logging with Windows Azure web sites

One of the features of Windows Azure Web Sites is the ability to stream logging information to the...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 06/27/2013

Pie in the Sky (June 21, 2013)

It's officially the first day of summer today, and next week is BUILD. It looks like I'm not going...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 06/21/2013

[Cross Post] PHP 5.5.0 for Windows Released!

This post is also available on blog.syntaxc4.net. Today is an exciting day as we welcome the...

Author: SyntaxC4 Date: 06/20/2013

Pie in the Sky (June 14, 2013)

Busy week, which it usually is when there are things like BUILD coming up. Hopefully having BUILD in...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 06/14/2013

Windows Azure Node.js SDK Filters

One of the features of the Windows Azure SDKs that I haven't seen a lot of talk about is retrying...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/28/2013

Pie in the Sky (May 24, 2013)

Ah, it's the end of another busy week. Luckily it's a long weekend here due to a holiday on Monday....

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/24/2013

Pie in the Sky (May 17, 2013)

How many people are going to see Star Trek this weekend? I'd like to, but there's lots of family...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/17/2013

Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 4

In the previous posts (1, 2, 3) I covered creating an Ember.js-based single page application, then...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/15/2013

Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 3

Last week I created a new single page application using Ember.js as the client framework (see Part 1...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/13/2013

Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 2

Today I continue building the application started in Part 1 by adding navigation and some basic...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/09/2013

Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 1

Recently I've been reading about JavaScript frameworks for creating single page applications, and...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/07/2013

Pie in the Sky (May 3, 2013)

It's Friday once again, and boy am I glad. Stayed up too late last night coding and need a restful...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 05/03/2013

Pie in the Sky (April 26, 2013)

It's been an odd week where I've been working on random things. Trying my hand at single page...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/26/2013

The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby

If you haven't heard, there's now a Ruby SDK for Windows Azure that provides access to Windows Azure...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/26/2013

Pie in the Sky (April 19, 2013)

Quite a few links this week for your weekend reading: Node Unix philosophy and Node.js: A brief...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/19/2013

Access Roaming Data in the Cloud using Windows Azure Mobile Services

The following article was written and contributed to the blog by Katrina Lyon-Smith, a Senior...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/17/2013

Pie in the Sky (April 12, 2013)

It's turned into summer here, complete with summer heat. The heat didn't stop us from gathering...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/12/2013

Pie in the Sky (April 5, 2013)

It's been a busy week and I'm looking forward to spend some time this weekend on this weeks links....

Author: Larry Franks Date: 04/05/2013

Pie in the Sky (March 15, 2013)

It's spring and everything is blooming where I live. Which means it's also allergy season; I've been...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 03/15/2013

Ruby on Rails: ActiveRecord with SQL Database

Just a quick note that I've udpated a previous blog post...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 03/12/2013

Pie in the Sky (March 8, 2013)

It's almost the weekend, so here's some links for your Friday reading: Cloud Windows Azure Mobile...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 03/08/2013

These ARE the Androids you've been looking for!

On Monday Scott Guthrie announced Windows Azure Mobile Services support for the Android platform....

Author: Rick Saling - MSFT Date: 03/06/2013

Pie in the Sky (February 22, 2013)

Wow, Friday already. This week sort of flew past. Here's some links for your weekend reading: Node...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 02/22/2013

Pie in the Sky (February 15, 2013)

It's Friday again, did you have a happy Valentine's Day this week? Here's some non-romantic reading...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 02/15/2013

Pie in the Sky (February 8, 2013)

It's Friday, time for some links. Here's a mix of Ruby, Node, JavaScript and client-side programming...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 02/08/2013

Pie in the Sky (February 1, 2013)

Today has been so busy I almost forgot to post the Friday links! I made it just in time though; here...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 02/01/2013

Azure Vault Storage in HDInsight: A Robust and Low Cost Storage Solution

UPDATE: Windows Azure HDInsight has shipped. Azure Storage Vault (ASV) is now just blob storage....

Author: BradSevertson Date: 01/29/2013

Pie in the Sky (January 25, 2013)

After a very mild fall and early winter, it's finally turned off very cold here. Hopefully you're...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 01/25/2013

Bundler and cross-platform development

The hazards of cross-platform development Recently I helped a co-worker with getting Rails, Nginx,...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 01/24/2013

Using the VM Depot

Yesterday, Microsoft Open Technologies announced a complementary service to Windows Azure VMs - the...

Author: Larry Franks Date: 01/10/2013

PHP 5.4 Available in Windows Azure Web and Worker Roles

One of the things that may have slipped past you in the holiday madness was this: PHP 5.4 is...

Author: Brian Swan - MSFT Date: 01/08/2013

Pie in the Sky (January 4, 2013)

Happy New Year, everyone! The blog has been relatively quiet in the last few weeks, but that means...

Author: Brian Swan - MSFT Date: 01/04/2013

Using Memcache to access a Windows Azure Dedicated Cache–Take 2

Back in October, I wrote a post that showed you how to set up a role as a dedicated cache and then...

Author: Brian Swan - MSFT Date: 01/03/2013

Pie in the Sky (November 30, 2012)

With the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. last week, things were a bit slow. However, Larry and...

Author: Brian Swan - MSFT Date: 11/30/2012

PHP 5.4 available in Windows Azure Web Sites

I’m happy to share that PHP 5.4 is now available in Windows Azure Web Sites! You have always...

Author: Brian Swan - MSFT Date: 11/18/2012

Pie in the Sky (November 16, 2012)

It's been a busy week here, trying to get things done before everyone goes on vacation next week....

Author: Larry Franks Date: 11/16/2012

<Previous Next>