Pie in the Sky (November 11th)
Swapping with Brian this week for the weekly links post. Some Node.js learning resources, Ruby for Kids, mobile development, the release of a stable Windows build of Node.js, and other goodies. Enjoy!
- Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency (Whitepaper): This isn't light reading, but if you are interested in the nitty-gritty of Windows Azure Storage, this paper covers it.
- Resolving an iisnode “The service is unavailable” 503 error: Dave Ward walks you through resolving the "The service is unavailable" error with iisnode.
- Controlling Windows Azure Role Communications with SDK 1.5: From the introduction: "If you have multiple roles within your Windows Azure hosted service project, you may wish to segregate them or isolate them from each other. One reason for wishing to do so is to ensure that architectural boundaries are enforced. Windows Azure allows the granular control of network traffic exchange between internal endpoints amongst your role instances to achieve these ends."
- Moving Channel9.msdn.com to Windows Azure:This article, about moving Channel 9 to Windows Azure, has some great insight about why and how to move an application from on-premises to the cloud.
- Getting Started with Windows Phone: This is an excellent list of resources for getting started with developing apps for Windows Phone.
- Running Multiple Websites in a Windows Azure Web Role: This isn't a recent article (Feb. 2011), but it's one that helped in answering questions I was asked this week.
- Getting Started with Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS: Again, not a recent article (May 2011), but updated with new information this week.
- Getting Started with PHP and SQL Azure: Another article that was updated this week.
- Certificates in Windows Azure: an overview | Les certificats dans Windows Azure: une vue d’ensemble: An overview of Windows Azure certificates...and it in both English and French!
- Windows Azure Camps Coming in December 2011: Windows Azure camps are coming to 5 east coast cities in the U.S. this December.
- Here's Why You Should be Happy That Microsoft is Embracing Node.js: Thoughts on why Node.js on Windows is a good thing.
- RubyBestPractieces.COM issue 24- Connascence: Identifying and loosening the coupling between components in Ruby, though the ideas and concepts should be applicable in other languages.
- KidsRuby: It's Ruby, for kids. How cool is that?
- First Stable Build of Node.js on Windows.: The title pretty much says it all for this one.
- NodeBeginner.org: The Node.js Beginner book. Worth a look if you're starting to learn Node.
- Mastering Node.js E-Book: Once you've went through the beginner book, start in on this one.
- Creating a Real-Time Multiplayer Game with Websockets and Node.js: Following on my game post earlier this week, here's one on using Node to create multiplayer games.