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