Guy Barrette

Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook is a book targeted at developers with at least some basic experience of Windows Azure. You won’t find long chapters explaining how the Cloud works so this should not be your first Azure book. Instead you’ll find 80 recipes covering a wide range of Azure technologies like: table storage, blobs, queues, roles, diagnostics and the management API, SQL Azure and the Azure AppFabric.

Wade Wegner announced yesterday the availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android.  This is on top of the toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS.

If you planned your Build trip so that you can attend the Monday pre-cons, well you know now that they have been cancelled.  I guess that MS feared that they would steal thunder from their keynotes.  Anyway, your previous option was to go to Disneyland.  Now you have a second option: “Creating User Experiences: An Interactive Workshop for Developers”, a workshop by Billy Hollis.

I recently purchased a new antenna for my router trying to get a better Wi-Fi signal when in my backyard.  It worked but still, I wanted an even better signal so I started to investigate other hardware options: