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	<title>Above The Cloud</title>
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	<description>A view of cloud services and the Azure platform</description>
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		<title>Windows Azure Platform &#8211; Account Suspended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this the end of the road for this blog?
Windows Azure:
 
Sql Azure:
 
AppFabric:
 
To summarise: I’m read-only, disabled, and inactive. 
I’m now officially taking votes for the next technology I should start evangelising. Perhaps I’ll become a functional programmer, or perhaps write DSLs instead. Or maybe switch to Ruby, I’ve heard you become rich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=305</link>
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		<title>Table Storage Retrieval Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview Of Tables
There are three kinds of storage in Windows Azure: Tables, Blobs, and Queues. Blobs are binary large objects and Queues are robust enterprise level communication queues. Tables are non-relational entity storage mechanisms. All storage is three times redundant and available via REST using the ATOM format.
Tables can store multiple entities with different kinds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=294</link>
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		<title>QMSDNUG Usergroup Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I delivered another Windows Azure Platform talk, this time at the my local user group. I think this is one of the best sessions I’ve done so far. I think I had a good vibe going on with the audience. And I appreciate that so many of you stuck around for the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches, Volume One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year Eric Nelson from Microsoft put out the call to Azure authors to build a community eBook about the Windows Azure Platform. Today the book was finally released to web today, and I have 2 articles included: Auto-scaling Azure, and Building Highly Scalable Applications in the Cloud.
I won’t bang on about it here, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Remix10 Melbourne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier last week I had the privilege of presenting at Remix10, a two day web conference held in Melbourne Australia. I presented in front of a packed crowd, and the topic seemed so popular that I had to deliver it again a second time the next day.
 
 
I really enjoyed the “love fest” and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=238</link>
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		<title>CloudCamp Brisbane &#8211; Just Around the Corner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 8th June 2010 Brisbane will have its first ever CloudCamp event. I’m very excited about this. I’ve had my head in the Azure space for so long I’ve somewhat neglected what everyone else is doing.
Register for CloudCamp Brisbane here.
About
Here’s the line direct from the website:
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=229</link>
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		<title>Azure CDN Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day the Microsoft Azure team shifted the CDN functionality into release mode and offered up a pricing model. I reflected on the release in my post ‘Azure CDN Pricing’ however some of the information I provided was in fact incorrect.
This article is to correct some of those mistakes, and also offer a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=224</link>
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		<title>Azure CDN Pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[* Update: Please note this article is now redundant. Please defer instead to this clarification: Azure CDN Updated
The pricing structure for the CDN aspect of Windows Azure has just been announced. You may remember that I previously wrote about Global Foundation Services and the mechanism that Microsoft uses to globally distribute its own content. Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Azure Quick Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just putting together a doc for some Azure quick links that will be content handed out to delegates at the upcoming Australian Remix conference. I figured I would also post the list here. If you’re into Azure, you should know about all these destination addresses.
Windows Azure Platform – Home   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
Windows Azure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Asynchronous Work Queue Pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may not have heard this name before. In fact, I Googled it and got 0 responses. However the pattern is very important and is very well publicised in Azure circles. Since there seems to be no actual name for this pattern, I’m seeking to give it a name, so that we can all speak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=219</link>
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