Tales from the trenches: resizing a Windows Azure virtual disk the smooth way
We’ve all been there. Running a virtual machine on Windows Azure and all of a sudden you notice that a virtual disk is running full. Having no access t...
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Working with Windows Azure command line tools from within Visual Studio
Right after my last post (Working with Windows Azure command line tools from PhpStorm), the obvious question came to mind… Can I do Windows Azure thin...
Working with Windows Azure from within PhpStorm
Working with Windows Azure and my new toy (PhpStorm), I wanted to have support for doing specific actions like creating a new web site or a new database in t...
Windows Azure Websites and PhpStorm
In my new role as Technical Evangelist at JetBrains, I’ve been experimenting with one of our products a lot: PhpStorm. I was kind of curious how this t...
Storing user uploads in Windows Azure blob storage
On one of the mailing lists I follow, an interesting question came up: “We want to write a VSTO plugin for Outlook which copies attachments to blob sto...
Protecting your ASP.NET Web API using OAuth2 and the Windows Azure Access Control Service
An article I wrote a while ago has been posted on DeveloperFusion: The world in which we live evolves at a vast speed. Today, many applications on the Inte...
Configuring IIS methods for ASP.NET Web API on Windows Azure Websites and elsewhere
That’s a pretty long title, I agree. When working on my implementation of RFC2324, also known as the HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol, I’ve ...
How I push GoogleAnalyticsTracker to NuGet
If you check my blog post Tracking API usage with Google Analytics, you’ll see that a small open-source component evolved from MyGet. This component, GoogleA...
A phone call from the cloud: Windows Azure, SignalR & Twilio
Note: this blog post used to be an article for the Windows Azure Roadtrip website. Since that one no longer exists, I decided to post the articles on my blog...
Sending e-mail from Windows Azure
Note: this blog post used to be an article for the Windows Azure Roadtrip website. Since that one no longer exists, I decided to post the articles on my blo...