Hi Folks, I’ve just moved my blog to a new location http://johnny.io, you can see, how, why and when by reading my last post on “Jekyll is rocking my new blog” I won’t be posting here anymore, so if you want to keep reading me point your rss feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/johnny-halife or bookmark http://johnny.io bye,... read more
Late October 2010, Tim, Geoff and I went to meet Sam (SR DEV LED from Windows Manageability) to talk about a potential engagement on a Web UI Project for Windows Powershell 3.0. We got really excited about the opportunity and after eleven (11) weeks of hard work, we helped Windows Manageability to deliver the first... read more
Hot off the press! As it just was shown by Scott Gu during PDC 2010 keynote, now you can search eBay using a new OData API. The API is running on Windows Azure Platform and can be reached at http://ebayodata.cloudapp.net. There’s also some interesting developer documentation that can be seen at http://ebayodata.cloudapp.net/Docs to help you... read more
Hey folks, yesterday (Sept 3. 2010), I gave a talk on the Code Camp Buenos Aires 2010 as the title of this post states I spent some time talking about IronRuby. The primary focus of the talk was on showing how to get the better of both worlds and how to work combining them (C#... read more
Lately, we’ve been working on a Windows Azure Project with huge load, really high peaks. During the project we got the following “gotcha moments” that I’ll be trying to summarize throughout the post and thru a series of post I expect to write. If you are using WCF, you must tweak it On iServiceOriented.com, there... read more
Taken from the rebase concept of git which is also used by GitHub to show they newsworthy and notable projects, I’m using the post to do the same with bunch of Open Source, shared, hacking projects I’ll be doing lately. Since 2010 started, I didn’t blogged that often, but there were a couple of projects... read more
Hey Folks, after PDC 09′ I’m back on track doing some work on the Windows Azure Storage SDK for Ruby. On my Channel9 interview, I told you that Ray Ozzie announced a new version of Windows Azure Storage API (a.k.a 2009-09-19) which enables developers to perform new tasks on the storage components These are the... read more
Since, the first release of the Windows Azure Storage SDK for Ruby, I’ve received retweets and comments from Jean-Christophe Cimetiere (Sr. Technical Evangelist – Interop Strategy Team at Microsoft), we never met in person until Ezequiel Glinsky put us in contact. I traveled to PDC 09′ to work on the Keynote and stuff for the... read more
About a month ago, I left my home in Buenos Aires to start working with James Conard and his team on the “Cloud Convergence” Demo and some other PDC 09′ Stuff. Today since Ray Ozzie touched the stage we (backstage) were waiting for our demo to become true. Before that were a couple of demos,... read more
I was working on the Ruby Windows Azure SDK and I started receiving HTTP/1.1 403 errors, I figured out which is the problem so here you can get a simple issue analysis Symptom While trying to connect to Windows Azure (Storage at least) from Argentina, you get 403 errors even dough the message seems to... read more