I’ve been writing a slurry of code to return list item XML so that it can be parsed and consumed by AJAX components on the client side. Since Lists.asmx does not work in anonymous access scenarios, I’ve been creating many proxy .ashx Http Handlers installed in the LAYOUTS directory, to query via the object model…

I have a new version of xPollinate waiting in the wings, with new support for HelloTxt. With this new feature, you won’t have to choose between Ping.fm or HelloTxt – you can use one, the other, or both (just try not to spam the hell out of your friends with duplicate posts!). I’ve submitted my…

Here is my portrait done by an artist with brushes on a touch screen Windows 7 computer at PDC 09:

Session #1: Windows Azure Platform: Windows Azure SQL Azure AppFabric …plus developer tools and "Dallas" Azure does "Compute" "Management" and "Storage" SQL Azure is a relational DB as a service. Demo is of a tickmaster-type application that uses Azure. TicketDirect Architecture: "Compute" using Web and Worker roles to process tickets Using the service bus to…

Windows Azure Improvements since last year: Support PHP, CGI, Apache, other frameworks Expose very low-level programming efforts (not just .NET). Example was a C++ app with pointers exposed as an Azure service Identity framework (support passing tokens from federated locations i.e. onsite AD instance) SQL Azure Improvements since last year: Not just RESTful consumption of…