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June 2009 - Posts

• Azure worker role development tips

  Just lately I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure the main focus of which has been exploring Azure storage (tables, queues, blobs) and how those things can be manipulated from Azure worker roles. One output from that “messing around” Read More... Posted 29 June 2009 14:29 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: windows azure, azure

• Enterprise Mashups

  Of late one may have noticed that I have become very interested in high-brow, generally vaporous, disciplines such as RESTful data services , data interoperability and cloud computing whilst coincident with that has been the inexorable rise of the term Read More... Posted 23 June 2009 23:16 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, yahoo pipes, mashups, cloud computing, RESTful, data interoperability, gemini, data services, omniscope, qlikview

• Powershell over Bing = geek coolness

  I like to think that most of the stuff I blog about on here is in some way useful but sometimes I just want to put something out there that i think is simply damn cool, this is one of the latter cases. Today I stumbled upon Joe Pruitt’s PoshBing – a Powershell Read More... Posted 09 June 2009 21:42 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: powershell

• Calculating the size of Twitter’s status table

  I’ve just read a mildly interesting article The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive? which talks about how any Twitter client using a signed 32bit integer to store twitter status_ids is going to break in the next few days when the Read More... Posted 09 June 2009 10:30 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments

• Google Squared launches

  Google have, today, released what looks like a very interesting product in Google Squared which is an extension to the search engine that tabulates your search results. Interesting because it presents results in a structured format that I assume one may, Read More... Posted 04 June 2009 15:22 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: google, Google Squared, data interoperability