Internet Explorer 9 Beta-1

<p>I finally got around installing the first beta preview of Internet Explorer 9.  So far, I’m pretty impressed!</p> <p>It is pretty fast.  Is it the fastest browser?  I got no idea, but it’s fast enough:  I don’t have the feeling of slow browser experience I...

Blob Folder Sync

I’ve made a Codeplex project public:  http://blobfoldersync.codeplex.com.

There are no release yet though, as I’m still working on the code.

It’s basically a simple sync engine which synchronizes local folders with an Azure Blob Storage.

I’ve started this to get my hands dirty on Azure Storage.  I’ve learned quite a few things along the way, so I think that...

Microsoft Support for Windows Azure: A+

The other day I found myself having an issue while finalizing a proof of concept on Windows Azure.

I was unable to deploy my solution.  It was staying in initialization / stop / pending cycle forever.

After a while (a few days), having tried different combination of staging / production, manual / Visual Studio deployment, etc., I went to...

Windows Phone 7 OS is RTM

A big mile stone for the Windows Phone 7:  Release to Market (RTM) of its OS.

With a billion dollars marketing campaign, it brings to mind the campaign done for Windows 95 launch.  Let’s hope the Windows Phone 7 will be as transformative as Windows 95 was.   The current Windows Phone looks so 2000’s :(

I’m actually confident...

Azure Service Bus

I’ve found a very good article giving a broad overview of the Azure Service Bus.  It’s a blog entry from Clemens Vaster who’s working at Microsoft in the Windows Azure team.

Azure Service Bus is part of Windows Azure AppFabric.  AppFabric has received much less press than the Azure hosting, storage & SQL Azure.  Maybe because it...