Yesterday the attendees of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp took part in a Global Render Lab that was built on the Windows Azure platform. The lab was adapted from a simple demo I wrote in 2010, and then adapted for a lab that I use on my Windows Azure training courses. The lab allowed attendees from events all over the globe to participate and compete in rendering frames in a 3D animation. All the processing would take place in a Windows Azure datacenter. About 750 attendees from 50 locations in ......
I’m just putting the finishing touches on the Global Render Lab for the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp. The lab will allow bootcamp attendees around the world to join together to create a render farm in Windows Azure that will render 3D ray-traced animations created using depth data from Kinect controllers. There is a webcast with an overview of the Global Render Lab here. If you are attending a Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event you will have the chance to deploy an application to Windows Azure ......
In the third of the series looking at website authentication with social identity providers I’ll focus on deploying the relying party application to a Windows Azure Website. This will require making some configuration changes in the management console in ACS, and the web.config file, and also changing the way that session cookies are created The other parts of this series are here: Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Part 1 Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers ......