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virtual machine

How to customize a Virtual Machine on Windows Azure, then capture it as reusable image

Introduction In this 2 series post, we'll be creating a web farm of virtual machines running IIS on Windows Server 2012. In the first part, we will customize a Windows Server

  • Ahmed Sabbour
4 min read
Mobile Services

The cross platform Shopping List demo with a Windows Azure backend

We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application that works cross platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Android) with a Windows Azure

  • Ahmed Sabbour
1 min read
YouTube

Windows Azure video tutorials and champ calls

YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here: http://aka.ms/sabbourazure 4Afrika Azure Champ Calls We also started a monthly Windows Azure champ call, which will also

  • Ahmed Sabbour
1 min read
OAuth

Part 1: Protecting an ASP.net Web API hosted on Azure with OAuth Simple Web Tokens using the Access Control Service – Server Side

Introduction I've been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated user to access it, how can this problem be solved? You could pass the username

  • Ahmed Sabbour
4 min read
Windows Azure Mobile Services

Creating Hashtag Monitor app. A application using Windows Azure Mobile Services

Introduction In this post, I'll be creating an application that registers for monitoring a specific hashtag on twitter for new tweets. When there is a batch of new tweets, the application

  • Ahmed Sabbour
6 min read
Windows Azure Mobile Services

Get started on Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps

Furthering Windows Azure commitment to open source development, Microsoft announced http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/mobile-services/ that developers can begin using Windows Azure Mobile Services to develop native Android applications. Mobile

  • Ahmed Sabbour
1 min read
windows azure

Creating a Facebook app using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Templates and hosting them for free on Windows Azure Websites

Introduction If you haven't checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should! It is a tooling refresh of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express

  • Ahmed Sabbour
4 min read
vm

Running Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure using a VM Depot image

Introduction Have you heard of VM Depot [http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/]? VM Depot is part of the Microsoft Open Technologies initiative, which is only one way of how Microsoft is opening up to

  • Ahmed Sabbour
4 min read
Kenya

Meet Windows Azure #MSKenCamp presentation

Hello friends, you'll find my presentation "Meet Windows Azure" presented at the Microsoft Kenya Developer Camp on Skydrive below: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E!107#

  • Ahmed Sabbour
1 min read
node.js

Hosting an Express Node.js website on Azure

I'm writing this post from Kenya, where I'm presenting Windows Azure this week at the #MSKenCamp [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23MSKenCamp&src=hash]. Be sure to

  • Ahmed Sabbour
3 min read
windows azure

My top 5 favorite reasons to start on Windows Azure for free

If now is the time for anything, it is the time of the cloud. If you've been wanting to try out cloud computing, why wait? Even if you haven't

  • Ahmed Sabbour
3 min read

Hello Azure!

Hello, my name is Ahmed Sabbour. I'm a technology geek, I love taking photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabbour and I love cooking http://pinterest.com/sabbour. I'm

  • Ahmed Sabbour
1 min read
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