Mark Newton
To many the Cloud is somewhere to store data so that you can share information between users and devices. However for the developers amongst us the Cloud can represent an opportunity to provide new or better solutions to our customers. Whilst for some web based applications a simple Cloud based web hosting solution will be […]
In the previous article I showed how to get started with Microsoft’s Azure and create your first Web Application in the Cloud. This application was nothing more than a basic web site and to really achieve anything with most applications you will soon want to be accessing data held in a database so I thought […]
I guess no computing article these days should be without a look at cloud computing. I like many others are experimenting with putting applications out on the cloud where it is claimed to be held in a virtual ether, replicated across multiple servers in a fully resilient fashion so uptimes of 100% or near can […]
Hosting your web site in the Cloud has the benefits of being easily scalable to deal with even peaky traffic, so if you have a marketing promotion one month or you ‘suffer’ from the ‘Digg’ effect and your site url benefits from a viral campaign, instead of the site failing to deal with the extra […]
Of course the current trendy way to solve the problem of dealing with such traffic is to host your web site in the ‘Cloud’. With a vast number of servers all waiting to serve your web application to your eager audience, surly it is a ‘brain dead’ choice? The reservation I have here is problem […]
High performance and scalable live video streaming via the new Azure Media Services There have been some interesting announcements recently from Microsoft. One is the launch of Azure Media services (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-windows-azure-media-services.aspx ) . This will provide a mechanism for streaming live video content via the Cloud. In a previous article in issue 198 I wrote about […]
There are lots of different ways of building web sites these days. When I first started out you wrote HTML files directly to a local web server and if it all looked and worked fine you uploaded these files to the live web server. Later scripting languages appeared and made this need for a staging […]
Umbraco- A great Open Source .NET CMS A lot of my time in recent months has been taken in evaluating CMS systems for a client of ours. After looking at the market leaders like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal to name a few we tried, it was felt that because they all used php, and the […]
I’m often approached by friends who want a simple way to build and maintain a web site, often this translates as ‘can you do it please’ and ‘I have little money to pay for it’. My obvious choice in such cases would be to use one of the many Content Management systems available, many of […]
When building websites for clients the need for the client to update and add pages themselves often arises. The term for this functionality is Content Management System or CMS. In the past many of us would sit down and write something for a client: after all a simple CMS system is not rocket science. In […]