Last year this time, I had wildflowers in the yard. This year, it's barely above freezing. I'm fine with the cold, I just wish it would snow a bit. :) Here are some links for your weekend reading, whether you are snowed in or just avoiding the cold...

Was a bit of a quiet week, but I found a few interesting links. A bunch of stuff happened in the Windows Azure space at least. Cloud Changes to getIdentities() : Some changes to Windows Azure Mobile Services to make getIdentities async. ...

It's the end of my first week back after the holidays. Here's a few links I managed to pick up this week between catching up on e-mail and work. Cloud Get better acquainted with Windows Azure : A collection of links for learning more about...

Here is a summary of the links I've found interesting this week. Cloud Windows Azure is going to Brazil Or rather adding Brazil as a region (data center) sometime in early 2014. JSON support for Windows Azure Tables : YaaaaaaaaynoXMLpayload...

I'll be on vacation next week for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, so no blog post next Friday. Here's some links from this week. Mobile\client Mobile Services team blog : The Windows Azure Mobile Services team has their own blog now...

Looks like its time for cold and flu season to kick in; woke up with a stuffy head this morning. Good thing I had nothing planned for the weekend! Here's some interesting links for your weekend reading. Cloud Introduction to WebSockets...

Here are some interesting links for your weekend reading: Cloud Windows Azure Import/Export service preview : Because the bandwidth of a FedEx truck is pretty awesome . Oh, there's some other Azure announcements there as well. SQL...

If you missed the announcement the other day, WebSockets are now supported in Windows Azure Web Sites. This means you can now use things like Socket.io from web sites instead of having to use a Cloud Service worker role. To get this working ...

Today is the first day that's really felt like Autumn here; leaves finally changed color and it's been rainy most of the day. Good reading (or sleeping) weather. Here's a list of links for your Friday reading: Cloud Partitioned Service Bus...

My reading plan for this weekend is mostly going to be learning Elixir (or continuing to learn it,) and some of Anton Chekhov's works. Here's is a less focused, and more technical list for your weekend reading: Cloud Windows Azure SDK 2.2...

It's been a busy week, with little time for reading about new things. But I do have some mobile and client related links for your weekend reading pleasure: Client/mobile JSIL : Compile .NET code into JavaScript. XYZ to JavaScript compilers...

I've decided, this weekend I learn functional programming. Picked up a book on Functional JavaScript and also loaded Elixir so we'll see how that goes. But before I get to that challenge, here are the links for this week: Cloud Cloud service...

Happy Friday! Here's some reading for the weekend. Cloud Windows Azure multi-factor authentication : If you need multi-factor authentication, it's now generally available (GA, released, whatever.) Deploy pre-configured Oracle VMs...

Almost forgot the Friday post again, but caught it on Saturday. Setting an alarm for Friday afternoon going forward so I remember to post what I've written up. :) Cloud Windows Azure fully supported by Juju : Juju is an Ubuntu thing for building...

It's late Friday-post day! Got caught up in a project on Friday and completely forgot about posting this. Or maybe it was a Friday the 13th thing. Anyway, better late than never. Cloud Microsoft Azure grows more open : On the openness of the...

Back from vacation this week and trying to catch up on things I missed while out last week. Here's part of my reading list for your weekend enjoyment. Cloud Configuring dynamic IP address restrictions in Windows Azure Web Sites : New feature...

There are three main benefits provided to mobile device apps by cloud-based services: data access and storage, authentication, and push notifications—note that Windows Azure Mobile Services is a single Windows Azure service that supports all three. What...

Busy week at work, working on some new projects. Here's a few links for your Friday reading. Cloud Zud.io : Browser-based access to Windows Azure Storage. Mobile/Client Device.js : Makes it easy to write conditional CSS and JavaScript...

Most of this week has been vacation for me, so not too many links for this weekend. Still, I've managed to find time to check my RSS feed and mark some interesting articles for future reading. Cloud General availability of Windows Azure Notification...

Happy weekend! Two days next week and I'm on vacation, so I may only have a few links for next week. But for this week, I've got a bunch: Cloud Architecture patterns for data upload to Windows Azure : A discussion of ways to get data into...

Trying something different this week and adding a client/mobile section for client-side things. I thought about adding a JavaScript section, but that'd end up being 99% of the links. JavaScript being the new assembler/vb/perl means it's in everything...

Happy almost-forgot-to-post Friday! Here's a list of links for your weekend reading: Cloud A comparative analysis of 5 large cloud IaaS providers : Comparisions of IaaS performance. Mobile PhoneGap 3.0 released : For all the mobile...

Another busy week is over. I didn't get out to many sites this week as I had some projects that took a lot of time. But I did manage to find a few interesting links for your Friday afternoon reading: Cloud How application and connection strings...

It's Friday once again, and here's a list of links for your weekend reading. Hopefully you will find them useful and informative. Cloud Scaling up and out in Windows Azure Web Sites : How to start small and scale up and out while keeping costs...

BUILD is over and there were a ton of announcements there. I still haven't had time to install 8.1 yet, or any of the other preview things. Hopefully you'll be able to take some time out and enjoy this week's links: Cloud Windows Azure Mobile...