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Reminder that this blog has moved and check out www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk
Just a gentle reminder that this blog has moved to http://ericnelson.wordpress... (as I still get folks contacting me via here) and a shout out for a great initiative (probably!) I’m pulling together to offer six weeks of FREE technical and commercial help to UK companies to explore the Windows Azure Platform starting in Jan 2012. Check out http://www.sixweeksofazure....
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Posted On Friday, November 04, 2011 9:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23rd and 24th
Several attendees asked me to share the roadmap slide from the developer track at Tech.Days 2011 this week. This is my summary as of May 23rd 2011. Beta Extra Small compute instance Windows Azure VM Role CTP Windows Azure Connect Windows Azure Traffic Manager SQL Azure OData Service (labs) SQL Azure Reporting (Limited CTP) SQL Azure Data Sync (labs) AppFabric Service Bus enhancements (labs) Announced SQL Azure Backup and Restore SQL Azure Federations SQL Azure codename “Austin” AppFabric Developer...
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Posted On Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:04 PM | Feedback (0)

Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd
This is a placeholder for the folks who attended the Microsoft UK tech days developer track on the Windows Azure Platform and asked me to share my decks asap. I will create a much more detailed posting once both days are done. Download decks: New Old or Pink – it is all good Windows Azure Platform Roadmap The main links from the day are: Connect with my team if you are an ISV (or similar) in the UK – http://bit.ly/ukisvfirststop (Including our blog, LinkedIn group and Microsoft Platform Ready assistance...
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Posted On Monday, May 23, 2011 8:55 PM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 less than one week off
It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted about TechDays. Today I completed the final review of all the decks for the Windows Azure developer tracks for Monday and Tuesday. All except for the keynote (always troublesome) and the roadmap session (equally troublesome) are now final – which gives me a warm and likely misplaced feeling that we are in good shape. Yesterday we had the T-1 week meeting in which everyone was smiling. Good stuff. In my case, it was also my first experience of using...
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Posted On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Agile Development and Testing Breakfast Sessions in Birmingham Manchester Dublin London in May and June
My colleague Giles is speaking at a series of breakfast meetings on Using Tooling to drive Agility across the Development Lifecycle. This session is one of several during an 8:40 to 10:30 “elongated” breakfast :-). The sessions are free and hopefully one is taking place near you: Birmingham, 11 May, Regus, Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2JB Manchester, 13 May, Regus, Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5AN Dublin, 22 June, SQS offices London, 30 June, 7-11 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AF Giles...
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Posted On Thursday, May 05, 2011 5:10 PM | Feedback (0)

UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Resources – and say hi if you are attending 4th May.
Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May 2011) I’m lab proctoring at the first of the Windows Azure Bootcamps taking place over the next month. Steve has created these Bootcamps to enable developers to get hands on experience of much of the Windows Azure Platform in a half day. If you are a follower of this blog then you are likely working for a UK ISV. If you also happen to be attending on the 4th then please say hi when you see me. Hopefully you are attending one of the labs (there is still spaces) but if you...
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Posted On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 1:58 PM | Feedback (0)

FREE Bing Developer event at Tech Days in London on May 26th
My colleagues in the UK Bing team are running an event at Tech Days for the first time. The intention is to cover the latest on Bing and Bing Maps APIs, providing a great update on how the tools can be used, and showing examples of some new and powerful applications. The event has some great speakers from the UK and from Microsoft Corporation – all of whom are experts in their field. We will be covering the Bing design philosophy, the Bing API, our Webmasters Kit for Search Engine Optimisation and...
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Posted On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 8:32 PM | Feedback (0)

Fancy some 1-2-1 time on Windows Phone 7? Three FREE workshops, next on Saturday 2nd April
My colleagues have put together a series of Saturday hands on workshops for Windows Phone 7 development in the UK. MVPs and Microsoft Evangelists will be helping you with such topics as Tombstoning, Databinding, Startup performance, Designing with Expression Blend, Data storage and pretty much anything else you can think of. If I was free – I would attend. It might take my first Phone 7 application to a new level! Click through to register for your preferred workshop. Saturday 2nd April – London...
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Posted On Friday, April 01, 2011 1:31 PM | Feedback (0)

Upcoming FREE UK events and training in March for the Windows Azure Platform
I just summarised them on my team blog. Definitely worth checking out as there is a good mix to choose from! March 31st should be the best of the best (IMVHO)...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:00 AM | Feedback (0)

FREE Three Days of online SharePoint 2010 Developer Training March 14th to 16th
Over on my team blog I just posted another great opportunity. If you are UK based and work for a company that creates software products and want to dig into SharePoint 2010 development for FREE with a great UK based SME (subject matter expert) then register today. The training is 100% free and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your office/house/starbucks (other coffee shops with wifi do exist) – yet you still get to ask plenty of questions...
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Posted On Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:16 AM | Feedback (0)

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