The call for sessions is now open for SoCal Codecamp IV. If you’ve never been to one, Codecamp is a great way to see sessions from the community, for free. Have an idea or a session you’d like to present? Submit it! Want to go? Visit SoCalCodeCamp.com to register. I missed the last one, and felt guilty about it, so I just submitted the sessions below. Hope to see you there! Windows Azure Overview Cloud technologies are transformational, and one of those rare paradigm shifts that we don’t see often...

Today’s release marks a significant milestone for Windows Azure. To date, Windows Azure has been a platform that allows developers to build and run applications across Microsoft’s global datacenters – the key emphasis has been on “applications”. Windows Azure has not been a platform for providing the underlying infrastructure for running your own virtual machine [...] Blog Post by: Wade

The most common and still widely used method of representing / establishing identity in the digital world is through UserName and Password. Although there are other forms such as Biometrics (Fingerprints, Iris Scan, etc.), Digital Signatures / Tokens, Smartcards etc. Blog Post by: Benny Mathew

In this episode, Michael McKeown describes the security model used in Windows Server AppFabric, which spans Windows Security Groups and SQL Server Database Roles....( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric

This post aims to provide you with an introduction into monitoring the health and activity of your WCF- and WF-based applications with Windows Server AppFabric. More specifically, the post will outline the AppFabric tooling features that are built into IIS Manager as well as outline some basic strategies in using these features to monitor your applications. Introduction At the center of AppFabric’s monitoring tools is the Dashboard, which provides a centralized gateway to view the health of WCF and...