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Host Multiple Web Sites in a single Azure Web Role

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:00 -0700

Hosting multiple web sites in a single Windows Azure web role is much easier than it sounds, all you have to do is update the ServiceDefinition file as below to add in a new Site (unfortunatley, this...

Bye Bye Microsoft, Hello Huddle

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:40:00 -0700

After 3 great years working as a Consultant for Microsoft in the UK, I have decided to make a move and join Huddle. I started with Microsoft as a MACH graduate just afterI finished university...

Converting a CER to PFX Certificate

Wed, 25 May 2011 03:14:00 -0700

After needing to use a cer file in Windows Azure to sign a web request I needed to upload the given CER file to the cloud and into my Azure nodes. This however proved problematic when the Windows...

Calling the Correct Version of PowerShell from Startup Tasks

Mon, 09 May 2011 02:11:00 -0700

During the deployment of the startup tasks used to create Event Logs in a previous post I noticed a number of errors with the roles deploying into a busy loop and never successfully deploying when...

Creating Event Logs in Azure using Start Up Tasks

Sun, 08 May 2011 09:58:00 -0700

Over the past couple of weeks I have been looking at migrating existing ASP.NET applications from being hosted in on premise to being hosted on the Windows Azure Platform. One of the problems that I...

Your Taste is Why Your Work Disappoints You

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:14:00 -0700

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you...

Automating Cloud Deployment using Rake

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:36:00 -0700

After a previous post where I discussed the benefits of using existing tools over creating your own build tasks I have been able to reproduce exactly the same deployment script working in Rake as I...

Tools Not Tasks … Automating Cloud Deployment

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:01:00 -0700

I have been involved in talks recently about how to automate deployment into a Windows Azure environment, after doing a number of presentations and white papers on the subject. I have decided that...

I Support the Agile Manifesto!

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:26:00 -0700

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working...

Lets Play TDD

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:21:00 -0700

Test Driven Development is a development area that facinates me however, one of the problems that I currently have adopting TDD is getting it put into use on real world projects as well as keeping...

Azure SDK in built MSBuild Packaging Target

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:19:00 -0700

When running an automated build to deploy your application into Windows Azure you need to at some point run a packaging script, this will take all the components of your application and turn them...

“Cloud-ify-ing” an existing ASP.NET Website

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:10:00 -0700

So you have an existing ASP.NET website and want to move it into Windows Azure … this can be done in a few simple steps using out of the out of the box tools supplied with the Windows Azure...

Scaling Instances on the Dev Fabric

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:12:00 -0800

Whilst looking at how to scale applications in Windows Azure I have had the need to see how the nodes react when the number of cloud instances of a web or worker role change. One way to view how the...

MCS, Windows Azure & Transport for London

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:28:00 -0800

Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK have been working together with Transport for London (TfL) to move the train prediction web services from on premise into the Windows Azure Platform. I have...

Azure dev Portal, OS Settings

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:42:00 -0700

Microsoft have made a small update to the Windows Azure Dev Portal and added the ability to configure the operating system that are running on your nodes and how they are updated. As you can see in...

deploying to the cloud as part of your daily build - update

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:02:00 -0700

Nearly a year ago I made a post about how to deploy your Windows Azure applications to the cloud as part of your daily build. Well, times have changed and our tools for Windows Azure have got a...

Cloud Coffee at #dddscot

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:25:00 -0700

DDD Scotland has been a great weekend of lots of geek-ery, fun and fire. It was also my first experience of speaking at a large conference and gave me the opportunity to talk about some of the things...

RiskMetrics – UK Azure Community presentation

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:22:00 -0700

RiskMetrics is on of the leading providers of financial risk analysis and I have had the pleasure to be working with them over the past couple of months to deliver their RiskBurst platform. The...

Infrastructure Access Layer

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:06:00 -0700

The Infrastructure Access Layer, or IAL for short is a simple concept, nothing new, in-fact you have all been using something similar for years when programming against your databases. I have just...

Learning's From The Ash Cloud

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:17:00 -0700

I'm sure everyone is aware of the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland and the cloud of ash that has been spewed out and more importantly the knock on effects this ash cloud has had on not just Europe...