19 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

CodeGuru’s Ten Great CodePlex Projects for ASP.NET Developers

CodeGuru.com has an article called Ten Great CodePlex Projects for ASP.NET Developers in which the author, Jason Gilmore, mentions Hollywood Hackers – the demo project that I built with Kevin Hoffman to go along with our MSDN article, “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure.”
The list contains some other really great sample CodePlex projects that [...]

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10 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

I Will Be Blogging and Tweeting Live from MIX10

I will be attending Microsoft’s MIX10 conference next month in Las Vegas.  I’m really looking forward to networking with other developers and designers and being immersed in a User Experience-focused community for three days.
I will be blogging and tweeting LIVE from the event on www.caffeinedi.com and www.twitter.com/natedudek.
Although the schedule hasn’t been posted yet, I’ll [...]

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06 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

My Windows Azure Article Is In the January 2010 Issue of MSDN Magazine

An article I wrote with Kevin Hoffman on Windows Azure is in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine. “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure Storage” discusses the utilization of Azure Queue and Table storage, Azure Worker Roles, and jQuery to send asynchronous messages to an ASP.NET MVC application and process shopping cart [...]

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22 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Windows Azure Session Videos from PDC ‘09

Jim Nakashima from with Windows Azure team posted links to videos of the Azure-related sessions from PDC ‘09.  The original link can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/11/19/videos-of-the-windows-azure-sessions-at-pdc09.aspx, but I’m reposting them for convenience.
Hours of great content here… I have a feeling my wife is going to have to peel me away from the computer.  Maybe I’ll [...]

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20 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The Hardware Behind Windows Azure

I wasn’t able to make it to PDC ‘09 this year (I’m not bitter at all.  Nope.  Not at all.  Especially since everyone who went got a free Windows 7 laptop.  Nope, not bitter at all).  Thankfully, the #pdc09 tweets were flowing, pretty much giving me the play-by-play, and the live Channel 9 video broadcasts [...]

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29 September 2009 ~ 11 Comments

How to Build Your First Azure-Powered ASP.NET MVC App

The Visual Studio project templates included with the Azure Tools provide a quick way to get started with a cloud-hosted web application.  Unfortunately, it only supports classic ASP.NET web projects by default.  This tutorial will get you going on deploying an ASP.NET MVC web application to Azure.
PreRequisites
To get started, you’ll need to have the following [...]

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