It’s been few months that we pulled the wrap off FabrikamShipping SaaS, and the response (example here) has been just great: I am glad you guys are finding the sample useful! In fact, FabrikamShipping SaaS contains really a lot of interesting stuff and I am guilty of not having found the time to…
As the AppFabric services line up with the look & feel of the SL based Windows Azure portal, the ACS Labs gets a restyling too! Wade tells you everything about the new release here. I love the new look of the ACS portal: the new left-hand navigation menu saves you many clicks, and…
Wade just announced the release of the January 2011 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit and associated MSDN course: it is chock full of new stuff, go check it out! One not-so-well-known tidbit is that there’s a significant portion of shared content between the Identity Training Kit & Course and the Windows…
Today we are releasing an update to the Identity Developer Training Kit; we are also releasing the first MSDN-hosted Identity Developer Training Course, an online version of the kit where all the labs instructions and setup files are unbundled and individually accessible. Both are heavily cloud-flavored. January 2011 Identity Developer Training Kit Besides…
[Yes, another non-identity and non-cloud related post about gadgets: after all, it’s Saturday! But the next one will be a serious post, I promise] Being able at any time to pull out from your pocket a phone capable of capturing megapixel pictures & videos is awesome, but oftentimes I do miss the versatility…
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It feels like a year already, but in fact it’s been not even 5 months that Programming Windows Identity Foundation hit the virtual and physical shelves. Last week I was hanging out with Giorgio at a certain library, and out of curiosity I checked if they had a copy of the book: it…
Back in December one pretty important piece of news didn’t get as much air time as it would have deserved: we recently changed the WIF SDK EULA so that you can now freely (and happily) include & redistribute the WIF runtime (& samples) with your applications. Isn’t that awesome? This came back to…
Long time readers know that, besides being far too interested in weird security protocols, I am kind of a gadget freak. Well, after much kicking and screaming I finally managed to put my fangs on a brand new Dell Venue Pro: and ho boy, was it worth the wait. The last phone I…
I hope you took some to time to rest last month, because now it’s time to dive right back in! To get you back into your cloud habit, I would suggest a SaaS entrée. It’s already few weeks that the online instance of FabrikamShipping SaaS () has been updated: today we are releasing…
Happy new year everyone! I have an enormous backlog of blog posts (and other things) to write, but this is just too big not to share right away. The team I’ve been part of for the last few years, the Windows Azure Platform Evangelism team, is hiring! You can find all the details…