How to Build Ubuntu in Azure Most people do not associate Linux with Microsoft, but Windows Azure offers some great options for Linux VMs. Pricing is competitive with Amazon EC2, and the actual server provisioning in Azure is very fast for a Linux VM. I’m going to walk through the basic steps of getting Ubuntu in...

If you’re connecting to an Azure VM from a corporate network you may run into RDP connectivity issues. By default your RDP client will try to connect to the server over the Internet using port 3389. Most corporate and large organizational Internet Proxies and Firewalls block outbound connectivity to port 3389. You’ll see the ugly...

An  MSBuild Cheatsheet of handy references I’ve used for automating with MSBuild. Reference Paths Specify the path(s) to Project Reference DLLs. The ReferencePath property allows you to add a series of paths that MSBUILD will check, overriding any project-based references.

Loggly is a Logging as a Service provider that’s become very popular lately. Loggly allows Applications and Systems to write log data into the cloud using various application libraries. But at a very basic level you can post log data to Loggly’s RESTful API. Loggly then provides a dashboard for searching and filtering log data....