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Parsing JSON by Hand from Azure Mobile Services

This post is about parsing data by hand coming back from Azure Mobile Services. It does not rely on the MobileServiceCollectionView to populate controls with...

0 replies - 1771 views - 01/10/13 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

Why AWS is Important to IT Departments

Here's a five-minute video by CBT Nuggets trainer Jeremy Cioara that gives a 5-minute introduction to AWS and why the PaaS giant is vital to IT...

0 replies - 1693 views - 01/10/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

HP Discover, the Enterprise, and AWS Cloud

Last month I attended HP Discover (disclosure: my participation was funded by Ivy World). The IT war already started however HP stands still not taking...

0 replies - 1491 views - 01/10/13 by Ofir Nachmani in Articles

Handling enum values with type converters in Windows Azure Mobile Services

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS).  It’s a brilliant technology that allows you to stand up powerful OData...

0 replies - 1493 views - 01/09/13 by Adam Hoffman in Articles

How to Create an Azure Cloud Service

 I’ve been investigating setting up a Worker Role to do something similar to a Windows Service and it seems that the Worker Role is best suited for...

0 replies - 1798 views - 01/09/13 by Phillip Haydon in Articles

[Some of] What You Need to Know About the Cloud for 2013

Towards the end of last year, David...

0 replies - 3672 views - 01/07/13 by Paul Miller in Articles

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing...

0 replies - 2528 views - 01/07/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Rock, Paper, Azure Re-launch!

I’m a little late getting this out (pesky vacations and all) but we re-launched Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA) a few weeks back with weekly competitions! ...

0 replies - 1385 views - 01/07/13 by Brian Hitney in Articles

Quentin Wall of Salesforce on 8 Key Capabilities of PaaS

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took...

0 replies - 2262 views - 01/06/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

The AdWantageS

Every customer has a reason to move in to the cloud. Be it cost, scalability, on demand provisioning, there are plenty of reasons why one moves into the...

0 replies - 1852 views - 01/05/13 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles

NoSQL Week in Review #11

This week in NoSQL, both Neo4j and Datastax announced updates to their NoSQL solutions.  We also found an interesting retrospective map of 2012's...

0 replies - 3767 views - 01/04/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

The Open Hardware Revolution

If you haven’t heart of Arduino or Raspberry Pi, then you need to get up to speed urgently. Arduino is revolutionizing hardware and gadget...

0 replies - 3156 views - 01/04/13 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Intellij IDEA 12 Adds Cloudbees Support

Over at the CloudBees blog, the Java paas company announced that the new version IntelliJ IDEA now has CloudBees support.  Harpreet Singh wrote...

0 replies - 1747 views - 01/03/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Deploying a Simple Lift App on Escalante Using OpenShift

The RedHat OpenShift folks are making it super-simple to deploy a Lift app. The Escalante project provides an amazingly simple way to deploy a Lift...

5 replies - 2333 views - 01/02/13 by David Pollak in Articles

Machine Learning Using Microsoft HDInsight on Azure

Introduction Our last post was about Microsoft and Hortonworks joint effort to deliver Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Azure dubbed HDInsight. One of the key...

0 replies - 2927 views - 01/02/13 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles