The end the Chief Software Architect title @ Microsoft?

Ray Ozzy is stepping down the Chief Software Architect role at Microsoft.

He’s going to leave Microsoft in the short future.

Steve Balmer isn’t naming a new Chief Software Architect for the moment.

Since Bill Gates left Microsoft, the company has been running from one re-org to the other.  For instance,...

Microsoft’s jQuery contributions as official plug-ins

A quick note about Microsoft’s contributions to jQuery (namely XYZ):  they are now official plug-ins!

We’ve read several months ago about the contributions of Microsoft to jQuery, that is, Globalization, Templates and Data Linking.

Those plug-ins bring a programming model relatively close to Microsoft WPF (or Silverlight) but quite in line with jQuery.  It also shows the...

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...