Things are starting to pick up after the holidays; some good links for your weekend reading this week. VM Depot : This is a new service for Windows Azure that allows the community to create and share VM images that you can use in Windows Azure....

Yesterday, Microsoft Open Technologies announced a complementary service to Windows Azure VMs - the VM Depot . The depot is a community-driven catalog of open source VM images. This lets you create and share VMs with custom configurations or specific...

One of the things that may have slipped past you in the holiday madness was this: PHP 5.4 is available in Windows Azure Web and Worker Roles. This is just a quick post to bring you up to speed on this feature. (If you are wondering about PHP versions...

Happy New Year, everyone! The blog has been relatively quiet in the last few weeks, but that means we have accumulated a ton of interesting reading. Some of these links might be a couple weeks old, but many of them are fresh reading. Regardless, they...

Back in October, I wrote a post that showed you how to set up a role as a dedicated cache and then access it using the memcache protocol . The steps involved were many and tedious, and in the post I said that you could expect tooling that made the work...

It's been crazy this week, trying to get everything done before people disappear for vacation. Here's some early December links for your weekend reading: Pkgcloud : A node.js library that abstracts away the differences between cloud platforms. For...

With the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. last week, things were a bit slow. However, Larry and I did manage to find some interesting reading, which we are sharing here… Composer and Azure Websites Git Deployment (UPDATE) : How to use...

I’m happy to share that PHP 5.4 is now available in Windows Azure Web Sites ! You have always been able to install a custom PHP runtime in Web Sites , but now you can have PHP 5.4 available with the click of a button. And, you can customize the...

It's been a busy week here, trying to get things done before everyone goes on vacation next week. Unfortunately this hasn't left a lot of time for collecting links, hopefully you'll find that quality is better than quantity. :) How to Upload...

This week’s reading list is a good one for cold autumn weather…it’s not light reading. So, stoke the fire, grab a warm beverage, and dig in (or just get comfortable and dig in if the cold weather hasn’t hit you yet)… ...

A new version of the Windows Azure Command-line Tools for Mac and Linux has been released. This version adds some useful commands for working with Windows Azure Web Sites, specifically setting app settings and working with GitHub and the server side repository...

It's Friday once again, and we're here with a list of links for your weekend reading pleasure: Continuous Deployment with Windows Azure Websites and Bitbucket : This adds to the continuous deployment options from GitHub and CodePlex. ...

Earlier today, MongoLab announced the availability of MongoDB as a service on Windows Azure: MongoLab on Windows Azure . From my point of view this is great as it now makes it easy to use 3 of my favorite technologies in concert: Windows Azure Web Sites...

As another follow up to an earlier post , I'm walking through the Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorials to add in the iOS client version of handling data validation. This tutorial (like the earlier one), will appear on windowsazure.com soon, builds...

We have a long reading list this week. Not sure how that happened considering how much other work we’ve had this week (maybe that’s why I didn’t get much sleep this week). This week’s list has everything from lots of small tips...

We've talked previously about the Windows Azure command-line tools , and have used them in a few posts such as Brian's Migrating Drupal to a Windows Azure VM . While the tools are generally useful for tons of stuff, one of the things that's been painful...

As a follow up to an earlier post , I'm walking through the Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorials to add in the iOS client version of handling data validation. We're not doing this in the client application (yet); instead, this tutorial, which will...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post that suggested you use app settings in Windows Azure Web Sites to store your database connection information. This approach allowed you to access database connection information as environment variables in PHP and Node...

It's a late 'Friday' post again; my apologies. It's been a bit hectic leading up to the end of October. Here's the links we saved for you this week: The Cloud and the Whiteboard (VIDEO): Cory Fowler "demystifies Windows Azure using nothing other...

Yesterday, Scott Guthrie blogged about the new iOS client SDK and feature set for Mobile Services. I'd like to bring several great bits of documentation together so that if you're interested in seeing the different ways you can use non-Microsoft platforms...

This is just a short post about how to get error information for PHP sites running in Windows Azure Web Sites . We all want to know when something goes wrong, and better yet, we want to know why something goes wrong. Hopefully, the information here will...

Hope for good reading weather this weekend, because our reading list this week has lots to choose from. Enjoy (and, as always, learn)… Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk : "Going open source can be a scary proposition, but it can also bear...

A few weeks ago, Larry and I wrote a couple of post about how to set up co-located caching using Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and access it from Ruby and PHP: Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services and PHP, Memcache, and Windows Azure...

Welcome back to the end of the week! Just a handful of links this week, hope you find them useful. Part 1 of 5: Introduction to Consuming Azure Mobile Services from iOS : Part 1 of a series by Bruno Turkaly about how to use Windows Azure Mobile...

I've been researching how to troubleshoot Node.js applications hosted on Windows Azure recently, and while I'm don't have a complete story yet I wanted to share what I do have. So here's a brain dump of diagnostics information that Node.js developers...