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]
Cloud Portam Now Supports Azure Search Service
September 16, 2014 by 1 Comment
I’m pleased to announce that today we released a new version of Cloud Portam which includes support for Azure Search Service which was announced recently. This blog post talks about Azure Search Service features currently supported in the … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
What Startups Can Learn From Aam Aadmi Party
May 23, 2014 by 13 Comments
For those who have been closely watching Indian Parliament elections concluded recently, you already know who Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is. For those who don’t know, AAP is the youngest political party which came into existence in 2012 as a result of … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
C# Corner Annual Developer Conference 2014 – Saluting the Spirit of Community Power
April 14, 2014 by 14 Comments
Over this weekend (April 11 – 13th 2014), I had the honor and privilege of attending and presenting at C# Corner Annual Developer Conference. This blog post talks about my experience there. In my opinion (and is shared by all who attended), the event … [Continue reading]