I just realized that I forgot to post the few pictures I took at the Bus Pilots 2011 May Day Show. You can find all the pictures on my Bus Pilots gallery here

NOTE: The Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP project on CodePlex has been deprecated and new tools created in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP, however this issue still persists and seems like it may be from the Windows Azure tools instead of the PHP tools.   With the sizes of hard drives these

One of the things that really irks me about retrieving data from Windows Azure Tables is it’s apparent lack of sortability. Coming from the world of MySQL and RDBMS I am used to being able to manipulate my data in all directions. When you retrieve a set of entities from a Windows Azure Table they

While standing on the Washington State Ferry on a beautiful clear day I glanced back towards Bremerton, WA and the sight was breathtaking. Unfortunately all I had on me was a point and shoot camera, but it did a pretty good job. The smoke from the ferry engines does dull the image a bit though

If you need to quickly view data from a SQL Azure database, Excel 2010 can do the heavy lifting and handle connecting to SQL Azure and viewing all your tables with ease. From there you can filter and mash your data however you would like. 1. Open a new Excel document 2. Select the Data