December 2008 - Posts

DeepEarth Released on CodePlex by Live Services

DeepEarth is a new, open-source project that integrates Microsoft Virtual Earth with the Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 platform, making it easy to add an interactive, Silverlight 2.0 map to your application. Get all of the code and a full description of the...

SQL Down Under Podcast by Extemporaneous Mumblings

I recently had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Greg Low from SQL Down Under fame and record a podcast with him.  I have to thank Greg for inviting me to ramble on about cloud services, data services like SQL Data Services and Microsoft's...

Managing the lifecycle of security tokens (Geneva, STS, WCF…) by Matias Woloski's Blog

  One of the things I didn’t like of the WSFederationHttpBinding is that it encapsulates lots of things. In particular, the call against the STS to obtain a SAML token. I wanted to have control over that process.  The good news is that...

Multiple Cloud Service Configurations by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Jim has just posted an article on a workaround you can use to support multiple configurations of your Windows Azure Cloud Service. Read More...

*** Hardt joins Microsoft by Vibro.NET

This is fantastic news! *** Hardt , superstar of the internet Identity community, just announced he'll be joining Microsoft . Besides having followed his work on the Internet, I had the luck of meeting with *** during last spring's IIW. He was...

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Actors : the CIO at VeryBigCorp , John ( SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers and architects. CIO : Gentlemen, welcome. Let me start by saying that our internal Customer is absolutely fascinated with your application. Believe...

On-premises, hosting & cloud: a metaphor for understanding how they differ by Vibro.NET

[Dear loyal readers, be warned: this post will contain some identity, but it is more about "pure" architecture & cloud services] On a flight Honolulu-Seattle; vacation is over, and I'm back to sharing with you my wild thoughts (ok, not...

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition process of IssueTracker in VeryBigCorp . IssueTracker was first used in VBC by a very limited number of people. Someone in some business unit somehow learnt...

A Solution for your Secret Santa Needs by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Every year, we siblings and their spouses (or significant others as the case may be) in the clan Dunn get together and exchange gifts.  Years ago, we decided that trying to get each person a gift was a bit burdensome and it diluted the value of the...

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part I - Introducing the Actors by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

I will start this series by introducing the main characters of our scenario. First, we have VeryBigCorp . VBC is a large corporation, with multiple branches and subsidiaries, thousands of employees, etc. VBC is the typical organization with a rather complex...

Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services and applications from "Big Enterprise" . The focus being the technical obstacles for adopting cloud services. Big Enterprise is the moniker...

Photos API and App Storage API CTP Ending by Live Services

Just a quick note that we will be winding down our Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live Spaces Photo API and the Windows Live Application Based Storage API in the next couple of days and we will be turning off those API endpoints. The Photos...
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