I came up with a little side project on the plane ride home from Belgium. The world needed a dirt-simple Fluent wrapper around Windows Azure Blob Storage to make it dirt-simple, I decided, and this is my first pass at making such a handy resource helper available. I'll get this thing on NuGet in the next few days, but here's a quick run-through of what BlobFu can do for you. Take a closer look at the code, as it's up on GitHub.com right now. 

So I'm at the airport awaiting the boarding call and wanted to take a second to update everyone. My teammte Jon Galloway has done a great job of talking up the upcoming web camps schedule. You can find out about it more at the Microsoft DevCamps Site specific to the web camp events. This is an exciting time for the Microsoft Web Stack, and Jon, myself, and quite a few other talented developers and speakers are going to be hitting the road to talk about all things web. If you're in Brussels on Thursday, we'd love to have you there, so come register for the event online. 

Dear Charlotte,

Tomorrow's the day my family leaves Charlotte for Seattle. So, the timing is perfect for the "buh-bye" post, and this is it. If you've been a part of my network you might want to read this. Then again, maybe not. There's going to be some good stuff and some bad stuff, and I hope everyone gets what I'm trying to say and that this post fails to burn any bridges. That's not my intent. My intent, as it always has been, is to empower Charlotte. 

This week I had the absolute privelege of hosting the Channel 9 Web Camps TV show. The show featured WebMatrix, and our guest was Vishal Joshi, Lead Program Manager for the product. Vishal highlights some of the great new features available in the new version of WebMatrix, which you can download for free in under 2 minutes. The product is impressive and offers just about every single thing a web developer would need. From database edits to code completion across C#, CSS, HTML, and even PHP code completion, WebMatrix has you covered. Take a few minutes and check out the new features you can get for free on Web Camps TV. 

If you attended my SignalR talk at Codemash, thank you so much for your time. I had a blast at Codemash, and really enjoyed the talk. It was a great audience with some good conversations in the hallway afterward. If you attended the session and want to get your hands on the deck and code, this is the place. 

One of the things that makes enterprise service development of any type difficult is the requirement to learn that ESB’s programming model. The Windows Azure has a very simple programming model already, but for those developers getting started with Azure Service Bus programming for the first time who mainly want a simple publish/subscribe-style bus architecture limited to a few types of custom messages, I’ve created a NuGet package called the ServiceBusSimplifier.

The Kinectonitor has received a lot of commentary and I’ve received some great ideas and suggestions on how it could be improved. There are a few architectural aspects about it that gave me some heartburn. One of those areas is in that, I failed to make use of any of Azure’s storage functionality to store the images. This post sums up how Blob Storage was added to the Kinectonitor’s architecture so that images could be stored in the cloud, not on the individual observer site’s web servers.

You may have noticed I’ve been getting into Azure recently. You could say my head’s going to be even more in the cloud than usual, because I’ve accepted a position with Microsoft as an Azure Technical Evangelist.