A few months ago, I wrote about my experience migrating a client into Azure. Now, there’s more! Visual Studio Team Services has released some pretty awesome features related to Build and Release management. Here’s a quick overview of what I did to get a Continuous Deploy scenario set up recently. Environment Setup 3 Deployment Slots […]

I spent last weekend moving a client’s website from a traditional host into Azure Websites. I learned a few things, and made a few mistakes, but mostly it went fairly well. I thought I should share a little of my experience out here. What went well? The site moved directly from the traditional host to […]

So I was setting up a new Virtual Machine, and got a message that I should try the new Azure Portal. Keep in mind, I tried this the other day, and was unimpressed. Me. Unimpressed by a Microsoft offering. But today, I said, “Sure, why not, I’ll take another peek!” This is the coolest thing […]

So I have a couple of Visual Basic 6 applications I maintain, and one of the big issues I have had was the lack of GOOD source control available for a small business person like myself. Until now. VisualStudio.com provides an online instance of TFS – we know this… But what I hadn’t thought about […]

So I was screwing around with Azure today, and I noticed that one of the new Virtual Machine images is a Visual Studio 2013 RC Image. Has anyone given this a run yet? I typically only set up single core VMs on my MSDN Azure account, so that I don’t run the whole account out […]