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• The Longest Tweet

  I read an article today called The Longest Tweet In History which explained how it is now possible to send Tweets via Twitter that are longer than the supposed 140 character limit. As it happens I’ve written a noddy app called Tweetpoll onto Windows Azure Read More... Posted 10 July 2009 11:59 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: twitter, windows azure, azure, tweetpoll, LINQPad, LINQ

• LINQPad and Azure

  Since I started dealing with Azure tables I’ve become frustrated that there is no ad-hoc query tool, nothing equivalent to SQL Server Management Studio. Then I heard about LINQPad and figured there must be a way to use it to query Azure tables using LINQ Read More... Posted 06 July 2009 16:51 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: windows azure, azure, LINQPad, LINQ

• 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

• Viewing Windows Azure log files using SSIS

  Applications hosted on Windows Azure will create log files and given that we don’t have access to the running app instances the log files are the only means available to us for debugging and problem resolution so they’re a very important part of the whole Read More... Posted 14 May 2009 13:39 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, Azure Services Platform, windows azure, azure

• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live

  Intro My first Windows Azure app is (at the time of writing) up and running at http://tweetpoll.cloudapp.net/ . I’ve not built it to provide anything particularly useful but what it does do is demonstrate the capabilities of Windows Azure storage, web Read More... Posted 06 May 2009 14:41 by jamie.thomson | 6 Comments Filed under: twitter, windows azure, azure

• What’s the difference between SQL Data Services (SDS) and Azure tables?

  I’ve seen many people on the web enquiring as to the difference between Azure table storage and SQL Data Services (SDS). Its a fair question, both appear in the ubiquitous Azure Services Platform slide: [N.B. Azure table store is part of “Windows Azure” Read More... Posted 12 December 2008 09:51 by jamie.thomson | 4 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, windows azure, azure, SQL Azure