August 14, 2013
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2 minutes to read
Our engineering team has been neck-deep in configuration hell lately. Editing 2000-line Solr configuration files, trying to get Apache Oozie integrated into DataStax Enterprise, Cassandra 1.2 upgra...
June 8, 2012
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7 minutes to read
A lot of exciting things were announced at today’s Meet Windows Azure event, and one of the things I wanted to share with you is how you can now use our cross-platform Windows Azure Command L...
April 17, 2012
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19 minutes to read
So if you read part 1 of this series, then you’ve had a chance to grok the requirements for our little chat service and see all of the NPM packages and front-end tools we’re going to use for buildi...
April 16, 2012
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5 minutes to read
This past weekend I ran a Node Bootcamp on behalf of Microsoft and in partnership with the fine folks at Cloud9 IDE – the goal of these camps is to help teach newbies Node.JS and to get some ...
February 12, 2012
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This is a simple blog engine that I wrote in about three days time. I wanted to show off the power of Node.JS on Windows Azure, and also take advantage of our recent support for MongoDB in Replica ...
February 6, 2012
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One thing that is a little dicey about the Windows Azure SDK for Node [footnote:“azure” is the name of the associated npm package] is that it by default it depends on being run inside o...
February 3, 2012
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1 minute to read
This past weekend at SoCal Code Camp I gave two presentations back-to-back on Node.JS: “Intro to Node.JS” and “Building Web Apps with Express.” I don’t have much to add on what I did at the sessio...
January 17, 2012
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6 minutes to read
One major advantage of developing Node applications for Windows Azure is the ability to have your Node apps managed directly by IIS via iisnode. You can read more about the benefits of iisnode her...
January 14, 2012
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On my primary development machine, where I have tweaked and prodded IIS multiple times for many projects over the past couple of years, I get the following 500 – Internal Server Error message...
January 10, 2012
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9 minutes to read
Following Microsoft’s announcements regarding first-class Node.JS support on Windows Azure, I thought it would be helpful to walk newbie Node.JS and Windows Azure developers through the proce...
January 10, 2012
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7 minutes to read
In the last post in this series on working with Node.JS in Windows Azure I showed you how to set up your development environment for working with Node.JS and Windows Azure. In this post I am going ...
December 14, 2011
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5 minutes to read
Microsoft announced out-of-the-box support for Node.JS on Windows Azure on Tuesday; we pushed both an official Node.JS SDK for Windows Azure services (table storage, blob storage, and queues) and s...