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  • RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings

    RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings

    Sep 11
    24

    My wife is in the Kingdom of Swaziland this evening. If she was a developer over there and wanted to use Web Platform Installer to get Visual Studio or some large download she would have to patiently bring the bits down over 3G. If she was very well off, she might have ASDL with a maximum speed of 512kbps down, most likely with a cap. I've talked about limited connectivity in African countries and other nations (*cough* New Zealand *cough*) before on this blog and it's no fun. I've told the w...

  • Why MyGet uses Windows Azure

    Why MyGet uses Windows Azure

    Sep 11
    06

    Recently one of the Tweeps following me started fooling around and hit one of my sweet spots: Windows Azure. Basically, he mocked me for using Windows Azure for MyGet, a website with enough users but not enough to justify the scalability aspect he thought Windows Azure was offering. Since Windows Azure is much, much more than scalability alone, I decided to do a quick writeup about the various reasons on why we use Windows Azure for MyGet. And those are not scalability. First of all, heres a...

  • A first look at Windows Azure AppFabric Applications

    A first look at Windows Azure AppFabric Applications

    Jul 11
    07

    After the Windows Azure AppFabric team announced the availability of Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (preview), I signed up for early access immediately and got in. After installing the tools and creating a namespace through the portal, I decided to give it a try to see what it’s all about. Note that Neil Mackenzie also has an extensive post on “WAAFapps” which I recommend you to read as well. So what is this Windows Azure AppFabric Applications thing? Before answering that question, le...

  • MyGet now supports pushing from the command line

    MyGet now supports pushing from the command line

    Jun 11
    01

    One of the work items we had opened for MyGet was the ability to push packages to a private feed from the command line. Only a few hours after our initial launch, David Fowler provided us with example code on how to implement NuGet command line pushes on the server side. An evening of coding later, I quickly hacked this into MyGet, which means that we now support pushing packages from the command line! For those that did not catch up with my blog post overload of the past week: MyGet offers ...

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