I haven't posted anything for awhile due to being busy with my ecommerce project. Recently, I have just started to deploy the project up onto Windows Azure for testing. I had held back deploying until I could deploy on SQL Azure more easily. Previously, you could only execute commands to SQL Azure via a query window and you had to create tables manually via a new query. The good news is, there's ... [More]

AreYouFollowingMeToo? is a simple twitter app that gets a list of twitter users who you are following who aren't following you back. I have decided to release the code for this app under a MIT License.The app supports deployment on Windows Azure. This decision was based on the fact that it was brought to my attention that there was another site that is providing the same functionality. Also, I ha... [More]

I've just created a twitter app on Windows Azure that allows you to get a list of people who you are following but are not following you. I call this, finding out who your true friends are. :) But it should also be helpful to control your Twitter ratio so that you don't look like another marketer or spammer. The app is up at http://ruf.cloudapp.net. I have not tested it with a large follower bas... [More]

The following describes my experience trying to get raya running on Windows Azure based on the July 2009 CTP of Windows Azure. Task List Add Blob support to allow uploaded photos to be stored in Azure Blobs Add support for Azure Storage Tables to replace all SQL database operations   Just 2 easy tasks... 2 easy and loooong tasks. Luckily the SDK abstracts away some of the nitty gritt... [More]

Prerequisites ASP .NET 3.5 ASP .NET MVC, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140768&clcid=0x409 Your favourite versioning tool, eg. Tortoise SVN, http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Access to MS SQL database or SQL database express Windows Azure SDK (if you want to run on Windows Azure)   You then need to create a folder on your drive somewhere containing the folders pesta ... [More]

Usually, the exceptions thrown while debugging Windows Azure Table Storage is quite helpful. The message that I normally get is in the following form "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\r\n<error xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata\">\r\n  <code></code>\r\n  <message xml:lang=\"en-NZ\">SOME ERROR... [More]

I hope the following will save some people time. The above exception occurs while developing using the July 2009 CTP of Windows Azure. The following query throws the above exception when the oauthConsumers table has no entry. I have not checked if it will occur if there is already an entry in the table or whether it occurs when published to the cloud. var result = db.oauthConsumers.Where(x => ... [More]

Finally managed to get pesta running under Windows Azure. It wasn't too difficult actually. The July CTP of Windows Azure SDK supported MVC projects as a web role out of the box. No hacking necessary. However, when I first got it running, pesta did not seem to inject the javascript libraries and gadgets were not rendered properly. It turns out that when deploying the MVC project, the CloudService... [More]

While trying out the Windows Azure SDK (July 2009 CTP), some hurdles were encountered with running the Development Storage under Windows 7. Initially, I thought it was a mistake on my part. However, even running the samples (Thumbnail Sample) included in the Windows Azure SDK, the same problem was encountered. The server encountered an unknown failure: The server committed a protocol violati... [More]