Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.
On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two
readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool
and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical
review. Click here to check out the blog post.
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I'm not sure how all this managed to slip by me, but apparently last Friday
the Windows Identity Foundation Release Candidate was unleashed on the world.
Now keep in mind that this is not the ADFS v2 server, this is the
foundational plumbing on which ADFS v2 will run.
Good news, though, is that if you're like me and you're using WIF to build
your own STS websites, then the RC will suit you... (more)
Yesterday, Microsoft released another update to the Windows Azure SDK. This
update includes a truckload of new goodies that I will be covering in
additional blog posts. For this blog post, however, I want to walk you
through getting an ASP.NET MVC 2 application working on Windows Azure in
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Now that Azure and VS2010 are finally starting to
sync up, the amount of ... (more)
Cloud Hosting Journal on Ulitzer
Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my
spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with
Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he
asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a cloud computing
environment, and traditional web hosting scenarios.
On... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
Let's take a look at this pretty common scenario. You're building an ASP.NET
application (MVC or otherwise) and you intend to publish it in the cloud and
you're using Azure Storage (not SQL Azure) for your underlying data store.
You've already hooked your app up with the sample Azure-based Membership
provider that comes with the Azure SDK and everything is running a... (more)