My team has been working diligently for the past few months preparing a series of samples that demonstrate various Windows Azure techniques, technologies, and ideas. We just completed one of these samples – the MyTODO web site project. MyTODO is a simple list-making application written using ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, jQuery, and jQuery Mobile. The site is quite easy to use in both a desktop web browser and from any mobile device that supports HTML 5 and jQuery Mobile. This blog post will introduce you to the sample and contains a short video that walks you through the process of installing it in your very own Windows Azure Web Site. 

Since the release of Windows Azure Web Sites a few months ago, one of the main questions I’m asked pertains to users’ ability to direct traffic to their Windows Azure Web Site using a custom domain name. I’ve found a way to achieve this (sort of). In this blog post you’ll learn how you can use your DNS provider’s administration panel to send traffic to your shared-instance Windows Azure Web Site.

I spent a little more time working on BlobFu. Now, it supports stream and byte-array publication and generic support for uploading and downloading in-memory objects to and from Windows Azure blob storage. Within minutes you could be uploading anything - files or serializable object instances - to your Windows Azure blob storage account. Via NuGet, BlobFu is available for anyone's use. 

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.