Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

A hosted service in azure is typically assigned with two public addresses, one for the production environment with a DNS name ending in cloudapp.net such as [your name].cloudapp.net and an auto generated DNS name for the staging environment such as 4969aae4e18f4699aa88223e1e73ba8e.cloudapp.net. There are multiple reasons you might want to map your custom domain name to these public names in Azure, but these are the most common ones I can imagine,

In the recent “Build” event, Microsoft introduced a new feature Windows Server 8 known as “Windows Powershell Web Access” for exposing a the server powershell console through a web interface. Although this feature looks very promising in first place, I only think it is convenient for intranet scenarios. I don’t initially see an organization exposing their servers directly to internet for using this feature from a phone as it represents a high risk.

One of the hidden gems that you can get today from the WCF Web Api source code in codeplex (wcf.codeplex.com) is the support for the task-based asynchronous model introduced in .NET 4.0. The new model simplifies a lot the way you do asynchronous stuff in .NET, and it’s going to get even better with the async support in C# 5.

As some of you might know, with the release of Node version 0.5.2, there is now support for Windows. It’s a single executable “node.exe” that you need to start using node on your machine, and you can get it from this location.

As you might read in my latest post, Hermes is one our new pet projects in Tellago for doing Pub/Sub over http. The idea is simple, but still very useful for integration scenarios in the enterprise. The fact that Hermes is all based on Http and uses one of the most famous open source initiatives for NoSQL databases like MongoDB, makes this project very appealing for the cloud as well. Many of the cloud platforms already provide MongoDB as a service that you can use in your applications hosted in the cloud.

After a few months of collaborative work across several members in our Tellago crew, Hermes is finally here. Hermes, also known as the great messenger of god in the Greek mythology, was the name we gave to this new open source alternative for doing durable pub/sub messaging over http.

A year ago, we released SO-Aware as our first product in Tellago Studios. SO-Aware represented a new way to manage web services and all the related artifacts like configuration, tests or monitoring data in the Microsoft stack. It was based on the idea of using a lightweight SOA governance approach with a central repository exposed through RESTful services.

I am happy to announce that one of the projects in which Microsoft and Tellago have been collaborating together during the last few months was released as part of wcf.codeplex.com. The primary aim of this “WCF Interop Bindings” project is to simplify the work needed for making WCF services interoperable with other service stacks like Oracle WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Metro or Apache Axis.