Turned out to be simplicity itself (thanks to this sweet tutorial). Great work team on the Windows Azure SDK for node.js and some lovely Powershell integration. Which in the management portal shows up as: Currently running (Thursday 19th Jan 2012) at http://ericnelnode1.cloudapp.net/ with the exciting output of: Related Links: Source code for SDK available on… [Read more…]
August 30, 2011
Well, the short answer is I have absolutely no idea. I have never used one in anger but have played around with Git and Mercurial. I can say with confidence that I am impressed with the promise of DVCS. Eric Sink on the other hand (who I came across originally while looking into Micro ISVs)… [Read more…]
May 20, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Colleague, friend and generally top guy on IronRuby Edd Morgan has just been published over on InfoQ. To wet the appetite… a snippet or three. IronRuby for Rubyists IronRuby is Microsoft’s implementation of the Ruby language we all know and love with the added bonus of… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink My colleague Edd (who wrote two great guest posts for me on IronRuby) just pointed me at a new site ironruby-rocks.com. It is early days for the site but I felt it was worth some additional exposure even at this early stage. Posts are nice and… [Read more…]
April 27, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Last week I presented at Cloud and Grid Exchange 2010. I did an introduction to Windows Azure and a demo of Ruby on Rails running on Azure. My slides and links can be found here – but just spotted that the excellent Skills Matter folks have… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink That fine chap http://twitter.com/serialseb is pulling together an interesting evening of fun on the Wednesday in London and I for one will definitely be there. Lots of goodness to learn about. If you are a .NET developer who still isn’t looking at Open Source, then the… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink IronRuby is a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft’s Dynamic Language Runtime. The project’s #1 goal is to be a true Ruby implementation, meaning it runs existing Ruby code. Check out this summary of using the Ruby standard… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink At QCon in March we had a sample Azure application implemented in both Java and Ruby to demonstrate that the Windows Azure Platform is not just about .NET. The following is an interesting interview with Rob Blackwell, the R&D director of the partner who implemented the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink At QCon in March we had a booth focused on interoperability out of which came the idea to create an application implemented in both Java and Ruby on Rails, running on top of the Windows Azure Platform. Nothing fancy, just an application to capture attendees view… [Read more…]
March 10, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink When I get some time (and hell starts to look a little chilly) I would love to do a more detailed review. But I wanted to get something “out there” as I really like this book and reviews of it seem a little thin on the… [Read more…]
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