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FREE One Day Windows Azure Discovery Workshops for product authors – first is September 12th
In September we will start to deliver monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to help...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011
Microsoft and Windows Azure–deploying a customer facing application in Six Weeks
I often get asked about how we are using Windows Azure internally and under NDA I can share some of...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011
Check out the new Building Windows 8 blog – B8
A new blog has appeared from the engineering team to have a two-way dialog with you about design...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011
Download IE10 Platform Preview 2
Internet Explorer 10 was voted highly in a small survey last week of UK ISVs looking at the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/14/2011
Windows Azure MSDN How To tips in one place…
With thanks to Wriju for doing the work to pull these together. How to: Build a Windows Azure...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/01/2011
The super-slidy Windows Azure Pricing Calculator
In early 2010 I “complained” about the way we were explaining the Windows Azure Platform on our web...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/01/2011
Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23rd and 24th
Several attendees asked me to share the roadmap slide from the developer track at Tech.Days 2011...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/26/2011
Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd
This is a placeholder for the folks who attended the Microsoft UK tech days developer track on the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/23/2011
Windows Azure Platform announcements from TechEd Atlanta May 2011
This week was TechEd in Atlanta and an opportunity for the Windows Azure Platform product groups to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2011
Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 less than one week off
It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted about TechDays. Today I completed the final review...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/17/2011
Lean Startup 101 for Developers
Abby is a fellow evangelist at Microsoft with a specific focus on working with startups in the USA....
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/17/2011
Agile Development and Testing Breakfast Sessions in Birmingham Manchester Dublin London in May and June
My colleague Giles is speaking at a series of breakfast meetings on Using Tooling to drive Agility...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/05/2011
UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Resources – and say hi if you are attending 4th May.
Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May 2011) I’m lab proctoring at the first of the Windows Azure Bootcamps...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/03/2011
Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team?
If you are: a senior technologist (Application Architect, Senior Developer or similar) with strong...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/27/2011
Two UK centric LinkedIn discussion groups you really should join
If you are: Involved in developing software products (aka an Independent Software Vendor) or...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011
UK hosted Twitter Q&A on Cloud–12pm to 1pm on Friday 15th April
[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] Tomorrow...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011
Article on preparing for the Cloud
[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] A great...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011
Five on-demand Webinars to help ISVs navigate the business changes involved in moving to the Cloud
[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] This...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011
FREE Bing Developer event at Tech Days in London on May 26th
My colleagues in the UK Bing team are running an event at Tech Days for the first time. The...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/06/2011
Quote Unquote
Bindi forwarded on this picture of me “talking Azure” at the Biztalk event we held in London on the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/06/2011
Fancy some 1-2-1 time on Windows Phone 7? Three FREE workshops, next on Saturday 2nd April
My colleagues have put together a series of Saturday hands on workshops for Windows Phone 7...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/01/2011
My first Windows Phone 7 application is live – from zero to submitted in 5 hours
Tuesday evening I found myself minus family. I decided to use the time to “have a crack at this...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/18/2011
Upcoming FREE UK events and training in March for the Windows Azure Platform
I just summarised them on my team blog. Definitely worth checking out as there is a good mix to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/09/2011
Q&A: Where does high performance computing fit with Windows Azure?
Answer I have been asked a couple of times this year about taking compute intensive operations to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/07/2011
Announcing a new Free Windows Azure Platform Trial offer
We now have a truly useful Windows Azure Platform trial. Which makes me very happy as I was a vocal...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/24/2011
FREE Three Days of online SharePoint 2010 Developer Training March 14th to 16th
Over on my team blog I just posted another great opportunity. If you are UK based and work for a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/10/2011
Making the most of next weeks SharePoint 2010 developer training
[you can still register if you are free on the afternoons of 9th to 11th – UK time] We have 50+...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/03/2011
The king is dead, long live the king–Cloud Evening 15th Feb in London
Advert alert :-) The UK's only Cloud user group The Cloud is the hot topic. You can’t escape hearing...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/02/2011
Save the dates – Tech.Days 2011 23rd to 25th of May in London
In May Microsoft UK (and specifically my group) will be delivering Tech.Days – a week of day long...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/02/2011
Superb post - What if Visual Studio had Achievements?
This post is simple superb – What if Visual Studio had Achievements :-) Although maybe you need to a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/27/2011
Have you downloaded the All-In-One Code Framework?
The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library provided by the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/27/2011
VBUG Spring Conference, 28th and 29th March in Reading
I presented at VBUG last year and can confirm that they put on a really good event. This year I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/27/2011
A little gem from MPN–FREE online course on Architectural Guidance for Migrating Applications to Windows Azure Platform
I know a lot of technical people who work in partners (ISVs, System Integrators etc). I know that...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/27/2011
MIX11 Registration is open – the place to hear the latest on Silverlight, HTML5, IE and more
Every year a few lucky colleagues get to attend MIX – and they come back with nothing but praise for...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/27/2011
Winning the “Boot from VHD” battle on Windows 7 + some useful utilities
A year or so back I was using the Boot from VHD feature lots – but not in recent times and not with...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/26/2011
Announcing a brand new LinkedIn group for UK based ISVs – join today
If you are developer, software architect or chief technology officer in the UK and work for a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/25/2011
Get a taste of the benefits of signing up to MPR–three FREE days of SharePoint 2010 development training Feb 9th to 11th
In brief…. take 1 minute to register today if you are UK based and work for a company that creates...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/25/2011
FREE Oracle to Microsoft Migration Workshop for UK ISVs February 11th in Reading
My colleague Keith Burns (top chap with great SQL Server skills – but don’t say I said so) is...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/20/2011
99 technical resources for developers and architects inside ISVs
Over on my team blog I just posted the first cut of “99 technical resources for developers and...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/14/2011
FREE Windows Azure Platform Compute and Storage through the Cloud Essentials Pack for Partners
It can be difficult to find something to look forward to in January – but this year it was a little...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/14/2011
FREE three days of online SharePoint 2010 development training for UK software houses Feb 9th to 11th
I have been working to get a SharePoint development course delivered online in February and March –...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/14/2011
Happy New Year and… WebMatrix Launch Event this week
What better way to start the New Year than with a brand new web development tool. Get a calendar...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/11/2011
New Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance released for building line of business applications
Several partners have been asking about guidance on combining Windows Phone 7 applications with...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/21/2010
Merry Christmas everyone
I would like to wish anyone and everyone who visits this blog (even the spammer) or who I have had...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/21/2010
FREE goodies if you are a UK based software house already live on the Windows Azure Platform
In the UK we have seen some fantastic take up around the Windows Azure Platform and we have lined up...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/20/2010
Researching runtime technologies (Xmas fun with HTML5)
The Internet Explorer 9.0 team just posted about Pirates love Daises. This is a showcase game for...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/20/2010
Slides and links from ISV Windows Azure briefing on the 13th Dec 2010
A big thank you to everyone who attended yesterdays “informal” briefing on the Windows Azure...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/14/2010
Register now for the FREE Tech Days Online Conference January 20th
The perfect solution to the “January blues” is a good solid few hours learning about great...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/09/2010