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In my MIX11 session last week I demonstrated how to create push notifications to iPhone and iPad devices from Wndows Azure. I’ve put together this blog post to share more detail and the source code for how this works. Firstly, if you haven’t already, you will need to register your iPhone/iPad application for push notifications. [...]
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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 [...]
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For those interested, I’m going to be hosting a couple of mobility-related webcasts in the next couple of months. You can find the details below. I’m really looking forward to them, and hope you are able to join! Click on the titles to register for the events. The Future of Mobility 1/25/2011 (10am – 11am [...]
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QCon is one of my favorite conferences. Although it’s a relatively small gathering compared to TechEd or JavaOne, it always has an awesome selection of sessions and speakers. Last year was amazing, and I had the honor of presenting a session (Patterns for Cloud Computing) in one of the many great tracks. This year (San [...]
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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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I recently found out that I will be speaking at JavaOne again this year! I’ll be participating on a quick-fire demo panel called Taking Java to the Sky: Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel together with representatives from Oracle, Salesforce, and Amazon. Raghavan Srinivas will again be doing a wonderful job by moderating the session, and you can [...]
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I’ve been working on an application that has a need to log many events on a Web Role running on Windows Azure. Effective logging can be difficult to setup. Do a search, and you’ll find a handful of articles that cover logging to the blobstore, mounting drives to extract the logs, etc. Instead, I wanted [...]
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Last week I took (and passed!) my CITA-P examination. CITA-P (Certified IT Architect) is a new certification, offered through IASA (the International Association of Software Architects). I wanted to share some thoughts on the certification, the process, and why you might want to consider applying yourself. The Certification The CITA-P certification evaluates an IT Architect [...]
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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.
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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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