March 9th, 2010
I’m off to The QCon Conference tomorrow to help man the Microsoft stand.
We’ve built a couple of interesting web sites:
ukinterop.cloudapp.net – A Java / Restlet web site running on Windows Azure
and
rubyukinterop.cloudapp.net – A Ruby on Rails site (Work in Progress!)
Both these apps use azurerunme.codeplex.com which makes it easy to run third party languages and technologies on Windows Azure.
On Friday I’ve been invited to join Microsoft’s Simon Davies and Simon Thurman for The Interoperable Platform session. I’ll talk a bit more about how we built the apps.
You can follow the event via Twitter.
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February 18th, 2010
MSDN Flash Podcast 020
David Gristwood interviews Richard and me about our work with the Windows Azure Platform.
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January 24th, 2010
Here are the slides from my lecture at Essex University on Friday.
My thanks to Iain Langdon for the invitation.
If you are a University student looking for a summer placement – please send me email.
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January 16th, 2010
I’ve just been doing some preparation for a lecture I’m giving next week.
One of the demo’s is a mash up that takes data from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program in XML. It runs a simple clustering algorithm and overlays the data on a map using the Microsoft Bing Maps API.
It’s a demo that I’ve been doing for a couple of years, but this time the results were more shocking..
You can make a donation here https://www.ircuk.org/haitiappeal
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January 16th, 2010
Tip 88 in the HOT 100 section features me talking about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure.
Look out for Tricky and Ben too.
It’s unusual for me to be in the company of so many trendy people.
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