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Try Windows Azure Platform for free

Devang Gandhi — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:45:04 +0000

Check out the Windows Azure free trial offer available now through June 30th, 2011.

What do you get?

Compute:

750 hours of an Extra Small Compute Instance
25 hours of a Small Compute Instance

Storage:

500MB
10k Storage transactions

Data Transfers:

500MB in / 500MB out

Relational Database:

1G Web Edition SQL Azure database (for 90 days only)

AppFabric Access Control transactions:

100k

AppFabric Service Bus connections:

Windows Azure

Devang Gandhi — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:13:44 +0000

Official definition goes “Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.”

Basically, it is a set of platform, tools and infrastructure that helps you create and deploy applications that run in the cloud.

Some useful resources:

Bing tips and tricks

Devang Gandhi — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:21:16 +0000

Whether you are looking for local weather forecast or solutions to mathematical equations, Bing makes it easier.

Yahoo and Google comparison

Devang Gandhi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:37:44 +0000

I read this article that compares the two internet giants. A nice read indeed.

Typing in Firefox 3.0 shows up backwards

Devang Gandhi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:05:43 +0000

Something really bizarre happened just now. I was typing in the address bar of firefox 3.0 and all the letters started appearing backwards so devang appears gnaved.

After googling, I figured others have experienced this before too. So I did what they did. I disabled the addons like Google toolbar and firebug and shut down firefox. I actually had to kill the firefox process from the task manager window.

I got firefox back up, enabled my addons and everything was fine.