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Monday, December 21, 2009 1:50 PM

Time to do some digging…

I’ve been getting my test harness and reporting tools setup for some performance baselining that I’m doing relative to cloud computing providers and when I left the office on Friday I set off a test that was uploading a collection of binary files (NetCDF...
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Friday, December 18, 2009 3:57 PM

Windows Azure, Climate Data, and Microsoft Surface

I’ve been working on moving a large collection data to, from, and around Azure as we are testing the data profile for scientific computing and large-scale experiment post-processing and, in order to verify the data we uploaded and processed turned out...
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Friday, December 18, 2009 3:49 PM

Automated Chart Generation

It’s late on the Friday afternoon before Christmas week which means things are pretty quiet around the office. This quiet has the net-effect of allowing me to get quite a bit done. The last few days have been very productive with respect to our research...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:08 PM

“Live” Monitoring Of Your Worker Roles in Azure

[Cross-posted from here ] I’ve been working for a bit on some larger-scale jobs targeting the Windows Azure platform and early last week had assembled a collection of worker roles that were supposed to be processing my datasets for a number of days moving...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure and Large Datasets, Part 2

[Cross-posted from here ] Last Friday I posted some initial results from some simplistic testing I had done comparing pulling data from Azure via ATOM (the ADO.NET data services client) and JSON. I was surprised at the significant difference in payload...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure, and Large Datasets

UPDATE 8/20/2009, 15:29 EST: There is some confusing content in this post (i.e. Azure storage doesn’t support JSON). A follow up to this post with further explanation/detail is available here -- UPDATE 8/14/2009, 17:16 EST: @smarx pointed out that this...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:07 PM

Silverlight and Azure Table Data Paging

[Cross posted from here ] I’m playing around with a data visualization app using Silverlight and data hosted in Azure Tables and have been learning quite a bit in the process. Firstly, Azure tables only allows you to return 1000 records in a given query...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:14 AM

Azure Blob Storage Blob IDs and “+”

[This is cross-posted from here ] I’ve been kicking the tires on Azure’s blob storage and am working on uploading a 1.2GB+ NetCDF file. I stumbled across a couple of samples online that were very helpful in avoiding the de facto client library that ships...
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Friday, June 26, 2009 8:04 PM

Codestock Session

[This is cross posted from here ] I’d like to thank all of you who attended my session today at CodeStock. I had a great time talking with you all and sharing my experiences with SharePoint and TFS with you all.   Downloads from today’s session:...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:08 AM

Customizations to STSDev 1.3

[This is cross-posted from here ] As part of my session on Deployment and build using TFS and SharePoint for CodeStock 09 I took the source code from the STSDev project on CodePlex ( http://stsdev.codeplex.com ) and made a number of modifications. Some...
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