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FREE One Day Windows Azure Discovery Workshops for product authors – first is September 12th

In September we will start to deliver monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to help...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011

Microsoft and Windows Azure–deploying a customer facing application in Six Weeks

I often get asked about how we are using Windows Azure internally and under NDA I can share some of...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011

Check out the new Building Windows 8 blog – B8

A new blog has appeared from the engineering team to have a two-way dialog with you about design...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/16/2011

Download IE10 Platform Preview 2

Internet Explorer 10 was voted highly in a small survey last week of UK ISVs looking at the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/14/2011

Windows Azure MSDN How To tips in one place…

With thanks to Wriju for doing the work to pull these together. How to: Build a Windows Azure...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/01/2011

The super-slidy Windows Azure Pricing Calculator

In early 2010 I “complained” about the way we were explaining the Windows Azure Platform on our web...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/01/2011

Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23rd and 24th

Several attendees asked me to share the roadmap slide from the developer track at Tech.Days 2011...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/26/2011

Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd

This is a placeholder for the folks who attended the Microsoft UK tech days developer track on the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/23/2011

Windows Azure Platform announcements from TechEd Atlanta May 2011

This week was TechEd in Atlanta and an opportunity for the Windows Azure Platform product groups to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2011

Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 less than one week off

It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted about TechDays. Today I completed the final review...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/17/2011

Lean Startup 101 for Developers

Abby is a fellow evangelist at Microsoft with a specific focus on working with startups in the USA....

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/17/2011

Agile Development and Testing Breakfast Sessions in Birmingham Manchester Dublin London in May and June

My colleague Giles is speaking at a series of breakfast meetings on Using Tooling to drive Agility...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/05/2011

UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Resources – and say hi if you are attending 4th May.

Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May 2011) I’m lab proctoring at the first of the Windows Azure Bootcamps...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/03/2011

Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team?

If you are: a senior technologist (Application Architect, Senior Developer or similar) with strong...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/27/2011

Two UK centric LinkedIn discussion groups you really should join

If you are: Involved in developing software products (aka an Independent Software Vendor) or...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011

UK hosted Twitter Q&A on Cloud–12pm to 1pm on Friday 15th April

[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] Tomorrow...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011

Article on preparing for the Cloud

[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] A great...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011

Five on-demand Webinars to help ISVs navigate the business changes involved in moving to the Cloud

[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] This...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/14/2011

FREE Bing Developer event at Tech Days in London on May 26th

My colleagues in the UK Bing team are running an event at Tech Days for the first time. The...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/06/2011

Quote Unquote

Bindi forwarded on this picture of me “talking Azure” at the Biztalk event we held in London on the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/06/2011

Fancy some 1-2-1 time on Windows Phone 7? Three FREE workshops, next on Saturday 2nd April

My colleagues have put together a series of Saturday hands on workshops for Windows Phone 7...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 04/01/2011

My first Windows Phone 7 application is live – from zero to submitted in 5 hours

Tuesday evening I found myself minus family. I decided to use the time to “have a crack at this...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/18/2011

Upcoming FREE UK events and training in March for the Windows Azure Platform

I just summarised them on my team blog. Definitely worth checking out as there is a good mix to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/09/2011

Q&A: Where does high performance computing fit with Windows Azure?

Answer I have been asked a couple of times this year about taking compute intensive operations to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 03/07/2011

Announcing a new Free Windows Azure Platform Trial offer

We now have a truly useful Windows Azure Platform trial. Which makes me very happy as I was a vocal...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/24/2011

FREE Three Days of online SharePoint 2010 Developer Training March 14th to 16th

Over on my team blog I just posted another great opportunity. If you are UK based and work for a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/10/2011

Making the most of next weeks SharePoint 2010 developer training

[you can still register if you are free on the afternoons of 9th to 11th – UK time] We have 50+...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/03/2011

The king is dead, long live the king–Cloud Evening 15th Feb in London

Advert alert :-) The UK's only Cloud user group The Cloud is the hot topic. You can’t escape hearing...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/02/2011

Save the dates – Tech.Days 2011 23rd to 25th of May in London

In May Microsoft UK (and specifically my group) will be delivering Tech.Days – a week of day long...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 02/02/2011

Superb post - What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

This post is simple superb – What if Visual Studio had Achievements :-) Although maybe you need to a...