Robust Non-ACID Transaction pattern in Azure

I’ve been working some more on some detailed design of the Azure Pub-Sub CodePlex project.  This project aims at creating a pub-sub messaging infrastructure running on Windows Azure & using Azure Storage.

Azure storage doesn’t support ACID transactions in general.  Each operation is a transaction within a given partition, but you can’t span a transaction on many operations.  Now...

Overview of OData on Code Project

I’ve contributed an entry-level article on code project about the Open Data Protocal (OData).

I go through the basics of the protocol, how it is structured, how to consume it and where I see usage.

I did this in order to follow suit with an article on ADO.NET around OData and I didn’t have anything to point at for foundation!

A first look into Windows 8

Stephen Chapman, from Microsoft Kitchen, dug up some Microsoft leaked slides about Windows 8.

Of course, it is early, it is unofficial, it’s only one notch above gossip, but we’re curious!  So what’s in it?

You can read the article, but I’ll pick up those points:

• A great interest in Apple recent success (e.g. brand...

I’m a PC

I found this funny illustration on the web bringing back home the numbers…

Microsoft tech.ed Online

I just discovered Microsoft has a web site with all tech.ed videos:  http://www.msteched.com.

It doesn’t have a pod-cast of those videos though, which would be very useful to manage and play on different devices :(