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TTG Event – Windows Azure introduction

Monday, May 06, 2013 7:30 PM UTC

TTG Logo On May 16th, as every month, there will be the Torino Technologies Group (TTG) community event, hosted in Microsoft Innovation Center Torino (Italy).

Together with Fabrizio Accatino, another TTG member, I will present an introductory session about Windows Azure, its new features and will show some basic samples about Web Sites, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Storage and Service Bus.

MCSD: Web Applications

Friday, May 03, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

Yesterday I completed another Microsoft Certification path: Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in Web Applications. Since last year, I've been involved in a number of web and cloud-related projects both at work and in my spare time, which let me learn a lot of cool stuff about web development, distributed architectures, HTML5, Javascript, CSS3 and Windows Azure: after passing the 70-487 (Developing Windows Azure and Web Services) exam last August and the 70-480 (Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3) exam in December, I decided to complete the MCSD certification path and yesterday I passed the new 70-486 (Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications) exam.

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You can get your certifications by scheduling an exams in a Prometric Testing Center. For more information, visit the official Microsoft Learning website.

Microsoft Dev Camp – Turin, Italy (March 15th, 2013)

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:00 AM UTC

windows 8 | phone 7 | cloud | community

DevCampLogo On March 15th, there will be a Microsoft Dev Camp event hosted by MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center) Torino, like the ones organized in other Italian cities.

Events are free and represent a great opportunity to meet other developers and have fun by developing Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 applications, with the exclusive support by Microsoft experts and Community members (especially, in Turin, with the support of BEPS Engineering and TTG - Torino Technologies Group).

Microsoft Specialist – Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:00 PM UTC

cloud | certification exams | web

In the last months I've been involved in a number of web and cloud-related projects both at work and in my spare time, where I learnt a lot of cool stuff about web development, HTML5, Javascript and CSS3: I decided to certify my achievements, and today I passed the new 70-480 (Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3) exam, first step in the web development certification path (MCSD: Web Applications or MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5). You can get your certifications by scheduling an exams in a Prometric Testing Center. For more information, visit the official Microsoft Learning website.

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Microsoft Dev Camp – Turin, Italy (September 28th, 2012)

Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:35 AM UTC

windows 8 | phone 7 | cloud | community

DevCampLogo On September 28th, there will be a Microsoft Dev Camp event hosted by MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center) Torino, like the ones organized in Milan and Rome.

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:40 AM UTC

cloud | silverlight

Few days ago an updated version of Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 has been released (download it from here). It provides support for creating Silverlight 5 and Silverlight 5 SketchFlow projects only (for previous version of Silverlight or to design WPF applications, Expression Blend 4 is required).

This release can be installed side-by-side with Expression Blend 4 and it's identical to the previously released Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5. It contains just three changes:

The expiration date has been extended to June 30, 2013.
It contains a go-live license that allows designer/developers to distribute the software created with this release
Silverlight 5 SDK that is installed with Blend has been updated to Silverlight 5 RTM.

Before installing this release, any previous version of Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 (or Blend SDK Preview for Silverlight 5) must be removed.

Umbraco on Windows Azure – part 3 of n

Saturday, February 04, 2012 4:48 PM UTC

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This is the third post of the Umbraco on Windows Azure series. In the first post, I introduced Umbraco CMS, Windows Azure and the reason why you would like to host your Umbraco site on Windows Azure, with a brief manual installation walkthrough. In the second post I presented the open-source helper Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco, which let you to deploy the site on Windows Azure in less than an hour. In this post, we'll see how to solve its thousands daily storage transactions issue.

Umbraco on Windows Azure – part 2 of n

Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:10 PM UTC

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This is the second post of the Umbraco on Windows Azure series. In the first post, I introduced Umbraco CMS, Windows Azure, the reason why you would like to host your Umbraco site on Windows Azure and a brief walkthrough to deploy a site manually. In this part, we'll have a look at the open-source helper which will let you to deploy the site on Windows Azure in less than an hour.

Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco

You can get it directly from the official site on GitHub.

Umbraco on Windows Azure – part 1 of n

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:50 AM UTC

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This post series divided in n parts will describe my development experiences with Umbraco CMS hosted on Windows Azure, acquired while creating this blog from scratch. Please, feel free to comment, criticize and suggest improvements!

Introduction

Umbraco logo Umbraco is a free, open-source content management system (CMS), developed with ASP.NET technologies and strongly supported by both an active community of users around the world and by a commercial organization providing professional tools and support.