Over the past few months, Azure Storage Team released two major upgrades. Both of these upgrades involve some really interesting new features and improvements. Among these new features and improvements include changes to Shared Access Signature (SAS) … [Continue reading]
Azure Icon Font For Your Web Application
August 28, 2015 by 1 Comment
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Prarambh 2015 – A Recap
March 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Over the weekend of Feb 20 - 22nd 2015, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur’s Entrepreneurship Cell “Saksham” organized a 32 hour startup challenge event (Prarambh). This was the 2nd time an event like this was organized (and I'm extremely … [Continue reading]
What Startup Founders Can Learn From Ocean’s Eleven Movie
January 20, 2015 by 2 Comments
I’m a huge fan of movie Ocean’s Eleven. In fact, I watch this movie every time it comes on TV. For those who don’t know about this movie, in short it is a heist film where George Clooney along with 10 other folks rob three Las Vegas casinos in one … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]