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		<title>Ten Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About Windows Azure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Manager]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Marx did a talk at the MVP Summit at the beginning of the year about things you can do with Windows Azure, and the talk then featured at Mix as well. I followed his lead and delivered a similar talk at Remix Australia which was titled ‘10 Things you didn’t know about Windows Azure’.
Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Azure BizSpark Camp&#8211;Perth</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=319</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I’m flying over to Perth to help out the local start up talent with their Windows Azure applications. It is a weekend long event where start ups in the Microsoft BizSpark program can come along and attempt to build an application in a weekend, then pitch it to a panel of judges. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing your Microsoft MVPs in Windows Azure</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=317</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 1st October Microsoft awarded 26 candidates in a new MVP category: Windows Azure. The Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award is an acknowledgement and thankyou to individuals for contributions to the technology community. You will typically find MVPs answering questions on forums, speaking at your local user groups and conferences, blogging, tweeting, and generally trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechEd 2010 Australia</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=309</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of kicking off the cloud track at TechEd 2010 Australia, where I delivered a level 300 &#8220;Lap Around the Windows Azure Platform&#8221;.
For those looking for my slides or the Service Bus demo I did, you can download them here (as zip files):

TechEd.Slides
Teched.ServiceBusDemo

As has been my &#8216;thing&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Azure Platform &#8211; Account Suspended</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=305</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<title>Table Storage Retrieval Patterns</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=294</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repository]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[specification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>QMSDNUG Usergroup Talk</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=293</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches, Volume One</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=239</link>
		<comments>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=239#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<title>Remix10 Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=238</link>
		<comments>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>CloudCamp Brisbane &#8211; Just Around the Corner!</title>
		<link>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=229</link>
		<comments>http://azure.snagy.name/blog/?p=229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Nagy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CloudCamp]]></category>
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		<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>
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