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How much to run my app on Windows Azure? - Part 1

or how accurately do you need to estimate? Windows Azure (previously codenamed Red Dog) is Microsoft’s foray into Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Rather than incurring large amounts of capital expenditure building, hosting and maintaining a mountain...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 11:09 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Microsoft, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud, Platform-as-a-Service, Estimating, Infrastructure, PaaS

Getting to Know Windows Azure

I consider myself rather lucky at the moment. I was recently amongst forty-four ‘carefully selected’ specialists within my organisation to spend a week at Microsoft’s pleasure in Redmond to kick-start our Windows Azure partnership. We...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 9:06 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Microsoft, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud

Starbucks finally gets rid of T-Mobile. iPhone users rejoice!

I'd heard a mention that things were changing in Starbucks. This morning, I had the great displeasure of dealing with T-Mobile's hotspot customer support when unable to connect from my local Starbucks. I use an iPass-enabled laptop for work, which...

Published Fri, May 15 2009 8:35 AM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: iPhone, Starbucks, T-Mobile, Hotspot, BT Openzone

Microsoft ships an iPhone app!

Well, who would have thought that Microsoft would get into iPhone development? On 13th December 2008, Microsoft Live Labs announced the launch of a preview release of its Seadragon Mobile application for the iPhone. Seadragon Mobile provides smooth image...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2008 8:02 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: iPhone, Microsoft, Seadragon

HowTo: Insert an image into a Word document and display it using OpenXML

One of the tasks I've had over the last few weeks has been to automatically generate documentation from an architectural model. It's been (and continues to be) a relatively painful, sluggish process, as I'm generating Microsoft Word 2007 documents...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2008 12:01 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: OpenXML, CSharp, Imaging, Microsoft Word

It's called StackOverflow, it's good and it's coming soon!

I've been following with interest the development of StackOverflow.com , the brainchild of Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky , for a while now. It the time of writing, it's still in beta. Hopefully, barring any further hiccups, it'll be released...

Published Thu, Sep 11 2008 4:26 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: StackOverflow

Stop Visual Studio Prompting for TFS Credentials

There are plenty of posts scattered around the web about the authentication of clients against Team Foundation Server from Visual Studio. Either you get prompted for credentials when you don't want them, or you can't get it to prompt for credentials...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 10:40 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, Team Foundation Server, Security, TFS, Workgroup

In search of reliable WiFi

About ten years ago, I cabled the house up in Cat5 terminating at a home-made rack in the smallest bedroom (or the data centre as it's affectionately known). Typically, I didn't install anywhere near enough as the number of devices running over...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2008 7:22 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: iPhone, Netgear, 3Com, WiFi, Nintendo DS, WG302, Access Point, ProSafe, 3g

Workflow Foundation error binding properties on custom activities

This one had me going round in circles for a good few minutes... While developing a custom activity today, I found myself reorganising some of my service contracts. My custom activity is very simple, having a single incoming DependencyProperty containing...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2008 6:11 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, Custom Activities, Workflow, WF

iPhone 3G works with Nokia 616 car kit

Well, that came as something of a surprise! I finally got round to pensioning off my Nokia N70 last week and replacing it with an iPhone 3G . Now, I'm no disciple of all things Apple, but the iPhone appealed to me for a number of basic reasons; it...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 5:33 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: handsfree, phone, Nokia, Bluetooth, car, iPhone, iPhone4, iPhone3GS, iPhone3G

[OT] Own up. How many times have you wanted to do this?

I may be turning into a grumpy old man, but I swear the term customer service is becoming an oxymoron. More often than not, if you take your business elsewhere when you get treated badly by some organisation, it's usually only you that loses out in...

Published Wed, May 21 2008 9:09 AM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Off-Topic, News, Humour

Tormenting the Super-Size Gadget Freak

My learned colleague, Mark Wilson , managed to score an animated T-Shirt recently. I've been after one for ages, since I came across them on Firebox but unfortunately, I'm a size bigger than Mark. I covet his T-Shirt, but I'm not optimistic...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 10:21 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Gadgets, Mark Wilson, Fun

Time to do something real with Windows Presentation Foundation

It’s been a while, but I’ve started work on a new pet project. Significantly, it’s my first foray into Windows Presentation Foundation....

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 9:23 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: Photography, WPF, .NET 3.5, UI, Application Blocks, Web Client Software Factory, Model-View-Presenter, MVVM, Patterns, MVP, Windows Presentation Foundation, MVC, Projects, Model-View-ViewModel, Model-View-Controller, UIPAB

When Computing Started To Get Personal

Back in the dim-and-distant past of 1981, I was a fourth year pupil at comprehensive school. Much of my spare time, at lunchtime and after school, was taken up writing software in BASIC and 6502 Assembler for the school's single computer; a Commodore...

Published Mon, Mar 24 2008 10:25 PM by Steve Morgan

Filed under: 1980's, BBC Micro, Personal Computing, History

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