LukaD's Blog
Get your seat at PDC 10!
As many of you probably know this year’s PDC (Professional Developers Conference) will be held in...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/11/2010
Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service Update
Well (in short ) AppFabric ACS just added a bunch of new features that are available one the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/09/2010
Zoom into Your Picture!
Zoom.it is a new service, provided by Microsoft Live Labs, that enables you to quickly add Deep Zoom...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/09/2010
“Huston, we have a problem!” – Well not if you are on SQL Azure
Online SQL Azure database management tool has finally reached CTP stage, so you can check it out and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 07/22/2010
Talk to your XBOX
I really like this video of MILO (virtual boy ) that shows how people will be able to interact with...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 07/16/2010
Bringing the Windows Azure Cloud On-Premise!
Yep, it looks like, by popular demand Microsoft is enabling the Windows Azure Platform inside of...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 07/16/2010
HPC Application Sample running on top of Windows Azure Platform
I recently had the chance to check out the Full Monte Sample application that was published on...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/23/2010
Enter the era of 2-screen devices…
Toshiba unveiled Libretto W100…. Maybe this will get me to read books from a digital device ;)!...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/22/2010
Interesting reading: SOA with .NET & Windows Azure
I recently came across the information about the following book availability: Real-World SOA with...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/16/2010
Monitoring HPC Applications
Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010,HPC I just had the chance to look at this interesting MSDN...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/11/2010
Windows Azure OS Auto-Upgrade
Technorati Tags: Windows Azure,Windows Azure Platform Another new thing with Windows Azure is the OS...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/08/2010
Windows & SQL Azure updates announced at TechEd USA
This week at TechEd North America some interesting announcements about Windows Azure and SQL Azure...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/08/2010
Get Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio!
The new release of Windows Azure tools for Microsoft Visual Studio is available for download. The...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/08/2010
Windows Azure Security Guidance
Microsoft Patterns & Practices team maintains a great site on Codeplex that handless all aspects...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 05/28/2010
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 is Live!
This might be interesting for all the architects that want to do things structurally. Microsoft...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/22/2010
Silverlight 4 is Live!
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/15/2010
KIN – Microsoft’s Phone for The New Generation
Check out Kin.com to experience the phone that keeps you connected into your digital world. Your...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/12/2010
Quest Software’s Toad Extensions for Visual Studio 2010
Quest Software has released Toad Extensions for Visual Studio 2010 with the following functionality:...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/08/2010
Windows Azure AppFabric April 2010 Release is Live
Windows Azure AppFabric (Access Control + Service Bus) April Release is Live. Read more about it on...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/07/2010
Great New E-book Previews Available
In case you are interested in Windows Phone 7 or Visual Studio 2010, I recommend you to check out...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/02/2010
Playing around with OData in SQL Azure
As you might have heard Microsoft has announced @MIX conference a new protocol for data sharing and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/01/2010
Powering your Facebook app with Windows Azure
A Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook apps was released on the Codeplex portal and it enables you to...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/31/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Builder Power Tool
A new power tool named Feature Builder for Visual Studio 2010 was just published on the Visual...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/31/2010
Start Developing for Windows Phone 7
You are now able to download the Silverlight 4 RC, the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP, and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/16/2010
Playing Games on Windows Phone 7 Series
Wow! Check out this video of Eric Rudder’s speech at TechEd Middle East. It shows how games and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/07/2010
Microsoft Research and Cloud Computing
There some interesting projects going on in Microsoft Research (MSR) that are focusing on Cloud...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/04/2010
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition
I just had the time to quickly review the 2nd Edition of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide....
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/02/2010
LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series
First hints about the new Windows Phone 7 Series came to live on the Engadget Show, where Aaron...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/02/2010
New Web Application Toolkits Available!
Web Application Toolkits help ASP.NET web developers quickly complete common tasks. Each Web...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/19/2010
Windows Phone 7 Series is announced!
About an hour ago Steve Ballmer announced the Windows Phone 7 Series at the MWC conference (check...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/15/2010
Gartner: Maturity of AJAX Technologies and RIA platforms
In case your next investment or product will include inter-/intranet facing components (which app...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/25/2010
Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010
Source Code Control (SCC) is a necessity for almost any advanced software development project...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/18/2010
By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets …
Gartner recently posted a list of predictions for IT organizations and users in 2010 and beyond …...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/18/2010
IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 is available
Worried about the rank of your site with different search engines? So there is a tool for you: the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/12/2010
Streaming Video from Azure Blob Storage in Your Blog!
I just read a great, great blog post by David Sayed, where he describes all the steps necessary to...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/11/2010
Blio eReader – a new way to read books?!?
After the new announcements about the Slate PCs on CES, I cannot wait to get my hands on the Blio...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/11/2010
Connecting BizTalk and Windows Azure AppFabric
In case you are interested on how BizTalk Server can communicate with Windows Azure AppFabric, I...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/05/2010
Application Server Extensions for .NET 4 Installation
During the last days I was playing around with the Windows Server AppFabric on my local machine....
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/04/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines available!
The Visual Studio product team has just announced that they have made Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/24/2009
Talmia Process Automation for Team Foundation Server
I just watched this video of a really great product by a VSIP partner GamCom called Talmia. It is a...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/17/2009
Windows 7 in 7 Seconds
For fun check out this video - 7 Second Demos, I like them a lot: Snap:...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/17/2009
Silverlight 4 Beta & ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta are available
Today at PDC conference a lot of interesting announcements were made during the keynote. One of the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/18/2009
Windows AppFabric Beta 1 is available
If you want to play around with it, just go here:...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/18/2009
Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP
Are you searching for a tool that could synch your on-premise database with the SQL Azure, which is...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/17/2009
Back to the cities, this time in US: Dallas
At PDC additional feature of the Microsoft Cloud platform was introduced under project codename...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/17/2009
Pinpoint Your Azure Applications
Today, with official launch of the Windows Azure platform, a market place for all the Cloud...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/17/2009
PDC Keynote: Dublin + Velocity = Windows Server AppFabric
Today, at PDC09 keynote a new functionality for Windows Server was announced: Windows Server...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/17/2009
Test Case Migrator (Excel) Tool
A great new tool for VS 2010 Test Case Management environment was released on CodePlex portal. Here...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/12/2009