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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 “mashup” in the information technology lexicon. “Mashup” means different things to different ...

Over the past few weeks there has been a concerted effort within Conchango to increase the amount of knowledge sharing that occurs within the company which was all prompted by some discussions that took place at one of our very popular community days. Since then I’ve done two internal demos pertaining to the subject which I’m banging on about most ...

The Live Framework (aka LiveFX), part of the Azure Services Platform, has been available for almost two weeks now. In that time one of the least talked about features within LiveFX has been Resource Scripts however (perhaps because of my SQL Server background) its one of the topics that I find the most interesting and potentially most ...

  When we talk about Live Mesh as being something that be connected to programmatically we talk about the Live Operating Environment (or LOE for short). In a previous life this was actually called the MESH Operating Environment and that is why when you look in Task Manager, and you have the LOE developer client installed, you will see ...

When you add a folder to Live Mesh it is represented programmatically in the Live Operating Environment (LOE) as a MeshObject. When I first started prodding and poking at the Live Framework (aka LiveFX) I assumed that the Mesh was represented as a hierarchy of these MeshObjects i.e. Every subfolder was also represented as a MeshObject. Take the ...

Microsoft’s strategy for their Windows Live suite has drawn much criticism since its inception in November 2005 but of late the muddy waters have started to clear a little bit. Firstly we have had the latest beta releases of Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Photo Gallery (all downloadable from ...

There have been some snippets of information trickling out of the Microsoft PDC this evening about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Namely: That’s not its name anymore. Its now called SQL Data Services (SDS) SDS is the data layer in Windows Azure You can now do joins between different entities. Just by the very nature of cloud services ...

I mentioned yesterday in my blog entry Are database pros relevant on the RESTful web? that I’d be doing more blogging related to cloud computing and here is the first one. it regards SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). I’ve been using SSDS for a few months and during that time I’ve managed to create a lot of junk up in that there cloud….I’ve ...

I recently got accepted onto the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) beta program and have been getting to grips with the how, what and why of the service. For those that don't know SSDS is a cloud computing platform from Microsoft that allows us to store data in the cloud rather than host it on our own database servers. The data is ...

OK, as a follow-up to my last post I've now taken the time to read the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) whitepaper and have managed to discern some interesting information. I figured I'd stick it up here for reference.   Administration Customers will be billed by account and each account will be accessed using a Windows Live ID The ...