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Targeted environment: Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 You’ll be self-signing with makecert from the Windows 7.1 SDK. The certificate tool is a single executable, specifically at %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\makecert.exe, per default. You’ll need it – copy it to the server unless you already have the SDK installed on it. Secondly, you’ve got a [...]

This is for all of you that just want a simple, up to date, example/how-to/tutorial of how to use Azure Blob Storage. You won’t see any screen shots or a lengthy guide on how to get started from scratch. Instead I will just focus on writing some code examples for general stuff that you might [...]

You know that thing you need to do before accessing your azure table for the first time? Yes, I’m looking at you CreateTableIfNotExist(string tableName). You need to do this before persisting you first entity or writing you first query. This annoys me. Mostly because I tend to forget about it and then get reminded by [...]

This article will explain, in a few short steps, how to backup your WordPress installation to Amazon S3 service. It will deal with Ubuntu as operating system and Amazon EC2 for hosting but is not limited to such an environment. Prerequisits are an Amazon account for the S3 service, a WordPress installation and knowledge of [...]

Testability and the means to abstract away your persistence layer in Windows Azure – two things that you don’t get for free. But you can get it really cheap, you just need some generics, interfaces. an IoC container and ~10 minutes. While coding for this post I used StructureMap (can be downloaded from NuGet) and [...]

According to this blog entry on Heroku, Clojure becomes the third language officially supported on the Cedar stack, after Ruby and Node.js. They write: – “Clojure combines the expressiveness of Lisp, the agility of a dynamic language, the performance of a compiled language, and the wide applicability of the JVM in a robust, production-ready package. [...]

Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby/Rails and Node.js. However, the Cedar stack on Heroku makes it possible to deploy other types of applications. In this blog entry, I will first describe how to write a simple Clojure web app using the Ring library and the build tool Leiningen. Then I will show how to deploy this Clojure web app on Heroku, using nothing but Git. I will make a change and see how to deploy that. I will also show how to easily roll back to a previous release.

I’m doing a POC (Proof of Concept) with Windows Azure for a big customer. The idea is to have a web site hosted on Windows Azure where managers can enter messages. These message will then be distributed to computers on sites scattered all over the world.  A kind of a messenger service, mainly intended to [...]

There are several reasons for setting up Continuous Integration for any project. The very same reasons (and some more) are true for an Azure project. In this post I’ll take you through the journey that I and a colleague travelled in our quest for a fully automated build-test-deployment solution for our Azure project. Before I [...]

On Thursday 3 mars Jayway hosted an Azure event at Malmö Högskola. It became a great event with about 60 attendees! Content Dag König, Microsoft, kicked off the day, delivering two great presentations. The first session was Introducing Windows Azure followed by Demonstration of Windows Azure. Together, both of the sessions delivered excellent content for anyone [...]

When creating your first WorkerRole you probably have a particular task in mind. It could be to generate a report every night or perhaps to send a welcome mail to newly registered users. The problems begins when you have another task that needs a worker, or a third. What you don’t want to do is [...]

I currently have the luxury of starting out on a green field Azure project. Naturally you start out with the intention that this will be the project where everything is done right (let’s see how that goes) from start. Besides delivering what the customer wants, for me, done right includes well designed code, well tested [...]

How to recursively delete all your files in all your buckets on an S3 account.

Here it is; a Proof of Concept of the world’s first Neo4j .NET Client. In other words: Here follows a discussion on how to create a client library for communicating with a graph database over REST. UPDATE: There is now a live CodePlex project for the realization of this concept; A .NET Client Library for [...]

The main points of our Effective and Infinite Storage in the Cloud session at TechDays 2010 in Sweden are listed below as well as links to all of our related material and the zip with our demos. The slides are here too but they are in Swedish only. Our session at TechDays 2010 gave an [...]