By Simon|Azure, iOS, Mobile, Neudesic
A couple of my previous blog posts have shown how AppFabric ACS (Access Control Service) can be used as part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to enable federated authentication with Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other providers. I was recently asked whether it’s possible to extract an OAuth token as part of the ACS [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Android, Azure, Microsoft, Mobile, Neudesic
At the end of August, Microsoft published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. At Neudesic, the partner behind developing the both toolkits for iOS and Android, we’ve been working with customers that use the toolkit to connect mobile applications to the cloud. One of the recent requests however has been to provide a walkthrough of [...]
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Last week, Microsoft released v1.2 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. As development partner for the toolkit, Neudesic has been working with several customers on implementing ACS for iPhone and iPad applications. Due to popular demand, I wanted to share a short overview of how simple it is to get this up and working [...]
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Thanks to all that came to my session at MIX11 last week – it was a lot of fun to put together despite a couple of demo glitches! You can now view the recording of this online, as well as browse and download the slides below. I’ll be sharing the source code for the demos [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Android, Azure, Events, iOS, Microsoft, UX|1 Comment
No, I’m not running for President…! Instead, I’m asking for your help in voting for my session at MIX11 this year: Using iPhone, iPad and Android devices with Windows Azure You have invested a lot learning how to build applications on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. But your customers are asking for solutions that target iPhone, [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Azure, Cloud Computing, Events, JavaOne|4 Comments
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be participating in a panel at JavaOne on Monday. With a similar format to last year, each panelist is given 5 – 10 minutes before it opens up for general discussion. Rather than showing a bunch of marketing slides, I thought it would be more interesting to [...]
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This is from November 2009, but I’ve just noticed that my “Patterns for Cloud Computing” session recording from QCon San Francisco has been posted online. You can find the recording and slides here.
Continue Reading →By Simon|Azure, Cloud Computing, Interoperability|1 Comment
When I speak with customers about cloud computing, a common question is often “how do I migrate an application to the cloud?” While this is a multi-part answer, one of the hurdles for migration is often storage. Many applications store data using the file system (e.g. read / write a file to d:dataconfig.xml). Moving these [...]
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