Is it just me or is this ad on the platform at Wynyard station giving off a bing-esque vibe?
So it’s not too clear in my crappy iPhone photo, but the word above “STAY PUMPED” says, ‘search:’.
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So I’ve been doing a little playing around recently with Azure, looking at pushing some of the more processor intensive worker units out into the cloud.
I know there’s been a whole bunch of discussion about whether ‘your data’ belongs out in the cloud and all that, and on that front I’m still undecided, but pushing processor intensive modules that act on small transient blocks of data sounds like the perfect test case for a cloud app. More on what that app is to be later.
In the mean time I was looking to find an easy way to get my files onto my Azure connected account’s blob storage. Enter Codeplex Space Block.
This app supports a whole bunch of cloud storage systems, but added Azure support after it’s major release. This means you need to use the link I posted above to download the latest commit, not the latest stable rellease (0.0.2.0).
I brought the app down for two reasons, firstly to get my files up onto the blob quickly and secondly to see a non-trivial example of accessing blob storage from C#.
Points to note:
- In the UI, the Account name is the azure sub-domain you used when creating the blob storage project. In the screenshot above this would have been ninepixels, taken from the URL http://ninepixels.blob.core.windows.net.
- The UI works very much like an ftp program, so no windows shell integration for drag and drop.
Found this over on Noam Lampert’s blog, originally form monologue.
I remember running into this bug when writing a rather trivial outlook add-in that registered a toolbar on all new explorers. At the time I was so far under time pressure that I just caved and changed the toolbar installer to install it on all toolbars by default (worked around the bug). I didn’t think that it might be a garbage collection issue. Good spot by Noam and co.
Short version: Any new explorer callbacks will get garbage collected unless you actually create an explicit reference to the Application.Explorers that you manage in your add-in.
So you would replace this:
Application.Explorers.NewExplorer += new ExplorersEvents_NewExplorerEventHandler(Explorers_NewExplorer);
with this:
Explorers explorers = Application.Explorers;
explorers.NewExplorer += new ExplorersEvents_NewExplorerEventHandler(Explorers_NewExplorer);
Over on ScottGu, this announcement about Microsoft setting up a CDN for ASP.Net Agax and jQuery.
Free for commercial and non-commercial use. A great idea for sites that heavily use jQuery or ASP.Net Ajax.
As per this article, it looks like MS and Yahoo! will enter into a rev-share deal that will set Bing as the default search engine on Yahoo!.
Apparently the formal anouncement is to be made tomorrow, so lets perhaps take this info with a grain of salt.
Link originally picked up from this slashdot article.
So most of the ReMix videos are up. All the cool dev sessions seem to be up there, but at this point in time the panel we did doesn’t seem to have made it up.
So I went to ReMix last Thursday and had a blast. DG and crew put on a great show.
Special thanks to Nick Hodge, for inviting me to talk at an incredibly interesting panel about Microsoft and Open Source. Really enjoyed the session and hoped all attendees did as well. The panel got a decent turn out too.
Thanks also to all the panellists;
I’ve previously blogged that I will be at remix this year on a panel about Microsoft and Open Source. Looking forward to doing that in a few days. It seems the guys at MS aren’t just interested in talking about it at ReMIX.
The guys (Nick Hodge and Jorke Odolphi) are also doing a series of Open Source talks around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) starting on the 23rd June. I’m told the theme of the sessions is meant to be a more of a “get-to-know-you” type session, the same sort of theme as the ReMIX panel. Check it out.
For those that haven’t heard, Microsoft anounced it’s new search engine, bing.
Some of those links might be a little slow at the moment, but I’d give it some time. Working at ninemsn, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peak at the search engine and I must say I was impressed. For those eager clickers, be advised the home page link is still showing a ‘coming soon’ for us Aussies atm.
The first thought that sprang to my mind when I heard the new name was, “I wonder if searching a term will now be called getting bing-age“. Gamers in the aurdience will recall the term getting bink-age from the counter-strike days, which describes the sound made when you score (or receive) a head shot while wearing a helmet in counter-strike (a near fatal shot).
Let’s hope that bing-age earns it’s place in the search world (in terms of search accuracy/relevance) the same way bink-age applies in the gaming world.
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