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Joining Dropbox 22 May 2013 | 03:30 pm
I'm joining Dropbox as the company's first Developer Advocate. I'll be moving to San Francisco, and my first official day at Dropbox will be June 4th, 2013. I'll have a lot more to say about Dropbox ...
Wazproxy: an HTTP Proxy That Signs Windows Azure Storage Requests 17 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Last night, I published Wazproxy, an HTTP proxy written in Node.js that automatically signs requests to Windows Azure blob storage for a given account. This is useful for developers who want to try ou...
WazMonkey: Chaos Monkey for Windows Azure 14 Sep 2012 | 05:00 am
This week, there was an internal discussion at Aditi about Netflix's Chaos Monkey tool and the usefulness of such a tool for Windows Azure developers. I decided to build a simple version of this tool ...
CodeShow: Code Sharing for Technical Presenters 14 Sep 2012 | 05:00 am
I give a lot of technical presentations, and one thing I continually struggle with is how to show code samples on a big screen. Like many speakers, I've sometimes pasted code into PowerPoint and somet...
Basic Git Merging 16 Aug 2012 | 08:00 am
Below is a transcript of me playing around in bash with git branches and merging. I hope this helps to demonstrate the basics of how to create branches, merge them back together, and handle merge conf...
Calling the Windows Azure Service Management API from Python 15 Aug 2012 | 08:00 am
Written as a response to a Stack Overflow question about how to do it, below is a little Python command-line tool that takes a .publishsettings file as an argument and calls the List Storage Accounts ...
Simple Scheduling in Windows Azure 9 Aug 2012 | 08:00 am
Nate Totten recently wrote a nice post called Task Scheduling with Windows Azure Web Sites Using a Cron Job Service, in which he described how to use a third-party cron service to call your web applic...
Site44 is Open to All! 6 Jun 2012 | 08:00 am
I'm thrilled to announce that, as of today, Site44 is in a public beta, meaning that anyone can start using it by just visiting http://www.site44.com. For those who missed my previous post about Site...
Site44 Turns Dropbox Folders Into Websites 21 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
I've always wanted a really lightweight way to publish websites. It turns out that my co-founder, Todd Proebsting, was looking for the same thing. We couldn't find anything that met our needs, so we d...
Join Me for “An Evening on Azure” in Bellevue, WA 4 Apr 2012 | 07:37 am
Microsoft and Aditi are holding an “Evening on Azure” dinner series. Please register and join us on April 25th at 5:30pm at Purple Café and Wine Bar for dinner and conversation. In my new role as Chie...
