For both Cloud Portam website and application, when it comes to icons we don’t use images. Almost invariably, we use vector icons and icon fonts (like Font Awesome which BTW are very aptly named; they are indeed really-really awesome :)). Where Font Awesome didn’t work for us was icons for Azure … [Read more...]
What’s New In Azure Storage
August 17, 2015 by 9 Comments
It’s been a while that I wrote a blog post about Azure Storage :). Earlier this month, Azure Storage Team released a new version of Storage Service and included a lot of awesome goodness! In this blog post, I will try to summarize those. So let’s start! New Storage Service REST API Version / … [Read more...]
Azure Service Bus – As I Understand It: Part I (Overview)
June 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Recently we started working on including support for Azure Service Bus in Cloud Portam. Prior to this, I had no experience with this service though it has been around for quite some time and I always wanted to try this out but one thing or another (oh, my stupid excuses :)!) prevented me from doing … [Read more...]
Understanding Azure Premium Storage – A Developer Perspective
May 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As you may already know Azure Premium Storage is the latest offering from Azure Storage which is designed specifically to handle Virtual Machine workloads. A few weeks back we included support for managing Premium Storage in Cloud Portam. There were a few things I learnt during that process and in … [Read more...]
Azure SDK 2.5 and Cloud Service Diagnostics
November 18, 2014 by 2 Comments
Recently Azure team announced the availability of SDK 2.5. You can read the release notes here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn873976.aspx. One of the major change that was done in this release is related to diagnostics. In this post we will talk about diagnostics changes in the … [Read more...]
Azure Search Service – Some Documented/Undocumented Business Rules
September 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
As you may already know, for past 2 weeks we have been implementing support for Azure Search Service in Cloud Portam. We released a newer version yesterday (more on this here). Currently there is no SDK available for this service and we ended up implementing REST API for Azure Search Service. During … [Read more...]
Making Azure Blob Storage Searchable Using Azure Search Service
August 25, 2014 by 11 Comments
Every now and then question about searching in Azure Blob Storage comes up in one of the community forums. Folks posting the questions would like to find out things like: Finding blobs containing certain letters in them e.g. all pdf or png files in blob storage. Finding blobs by blob type – … [Read more...]
Announcing The Launch Of Cloud Portam – A Browser Based Azure Storage Explorer
August 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
Its’ been quite some time that I blogged. Past few months have been crazy busy for me. After the failure of my last product (anybody remember CloudFileXchange thingie we did :)), I spent a lot of time thinking about what to build and then spent more time building it. The result is Cloud Portam. In … [Read more...]
Me and My Boss – The Saga Continues With Basic Tier Azure Virtual Machines
April 20, 2014 by 5 Comments
Man, my boss is always on my case. After what I did with Azure Mobile Services with him, he’s always after me. So this Friday, he calls me up in his office and following conversation happens between us: Boss: The Virtual Machines we’re hosting in Azure, we want to bring the cost of them … [Read more...]