Had a great time Wednesday night delivering a session on Azure and SQL Data Services at GL.NET. Admittedly I run over hugely but I enjoyed it and I much prefer lots of questions along the way. The venue is very good. The MessageLabs offices offer a pretty decent sized room, wireless internet and a good projector. Jimmy makes for a very friendly host and the folks that attend are equally good guys and as a bonus, the pub is near by :-) In summary, if you develop software using Microsoft.NET and you live near Gloucester, then you should check out the GL.NET user group.

I did a session which combined two session I delivered at Devweek 2009 earlier this year. Therefore I thought it probably made sense to point direct to the two original decks which contain more detail.

Some useful links:

• www.azure.com starting point for sdks and sign ups
• http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds/ blog of the SQL Services team
• http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/ blog of the Windows Azure team
• MIX sessions – videos to watch, especially SQL Data Services and Azure Storage
• http://www.newcloudapp.com/ the (unfortunately US biased) competition to create applications
• My amazing azure application (v2 in VB, v1 in C#) http://sayhello.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx
• And a great little azure application that lists other azure applications http://clouddotnet.cloudapp.net/ (developer in the UK by Stuart Lodge – the author i interview in Podcast Pilot 2)
• Podcast Pilot http://bit.ly/flashpodcast 
• Flash ebook http://bit.ly/flashebook1 

and the presentations: