No, it’s not because Local Storage quota is low. That’s easy to fix by just increasing the quota in the SerivceDef. I hit this nasty issue while working with WebDeploy, but since you might get this in a different context as well I wanted to share it and get hours back of your life, dear... read more
During the last couple of years I worked quite a lot with Windows Azure. There is no other choice if you work with the Microsoft DPE team, like we do at Southworks The thing is that we usually have to deal with last minute deployments to Azure that can take more than a minute <grin>.... read more
Yesterday Nathan announced the release of the Windows Azure Accelerators for Web Roles. If you are using Windows Azure today, this can be a pain relief if you’ve got used to wait 15 minutes (or more) every time you deploy to Windows Azure (and hope nothing was wrong in the package to realize after then... read more
Como habia escrito en un post anterior, aqui dejo un video donde muestro Windows Identity Foundation y Windows Azure Access Control Service. En este ejemplo muestro lo siguiente: Creo un sitio web de cero y agrego un identity provider de prueba (Add STS Reference) Me falla una cosa con certificados y hago un poco de... read more
The title is SEO friendly as you can see . This week, while working in a cool project, we had to explore options to expose a web API and make cross domain calls from an HTML5 client. Our specific scenario is: we develop the server API and another company is building the HTML5 client. Since... read more
This is a series of posts, read the introduction to FabrikamShipping for more information about this sample application and Vittorio’s blog for latest updates. One of the first challenges we had to solve in FabrikamShipping was the provisioning/on boarding of new customers. If you look at FabrikamShipping subscription page you can see there are 3... read more
Back in 2007 I had the pleasure of working with people like Eugenio Pace and Gianpaolo Carraro, exploring the unexplored territories of “software delivered like electricity”. We did LitwareHR together, the first software as a service sample application released by Microsoft… At that time I was looking for the topic of my thesis and Eugenio... read more
I posted yesterday about a poor man’s distributed caching solution using Windows Azure queues and ASP.NET cache. I’ve got an interesting comment in twitter: My short answer is that there aren’t solutions that scale or doesn’t scale. The scalability is a quality attribute of a system and it varies depending on the context. A good... read more
UPDATE: After reading this post you can read about the scalability of this solution, posted based on some comments. Part of working with the Windows Azure guidance team is not only about writing but it’s also about helping customers and understanding real life problems. This help us validate and enrich the content. One of the... read more
During the next couple of weeks, Southworks will be presenting together with a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company a project that we’ve developed during the last couple of months around Claims Based Federated Identity and the Cloud. Hong Choing and Ben Flock from Microsoft DPE are hosting the event in New Jersey and Boston and kindly... read more
