Windows Azure, cloud computing/hosting platform has been announced on the recent PDC 2008. Now as the dust settled I decided to give it a try. For the moment it is still available as a CTP – Community Technology Preview, so if you like you can test its functionality and deploy applications into ’the cloud’. At this time the pricing for the paid version of this service has not been determined but as Microsoft promises it will be competitive with the pioneers of cloud based storage, Amazon’s Web Services. So, lets get started with going trough the process of deploying a simple Hello World (or Hello Cloud) application, in this case made with ASP.NET (as it is possible to write your apps in Java in Ruby also)
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Some times there is a need to track the returning visitors even if they are anonymous. ASP.NET has a feature for this, called AnonymousID. We can use it in various situation like preventing shopping cart data, as a partial solution for preventing voting in polls more than once or as an id to use with ASP.NET Membership Profiles.
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As I wrote some time a go, Jeff Atwood form codinghorror.com and his gang, are preparing new Q&A site for system administrators and IT professionals. Serverfault.com will be a sister site of stackoverflow.com, it will be possible to move the questions between sites, and they will share the same engine powered by ASP.NET MVC framework with only content specific modifications. The logo contest held on the 99designs site is resolved and the results can be seen above. Sincere congratulations to the winner, Joshua Cliff and the runner ups: Umasankar Arumugam and Daniel L. Also. Big thanks to Jeff for honourable mention of my humble person.
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