Open Source

Azure enables Java developers to jumpstart their Android applications by creating Mobile Services, downloading prebuilt packages for several platforms and removing the need to create and maintain a backend that enables CRUD operations. In this video we show how to work with a prebuilt package for…

Learn how you can utilize Chef to deploy Windows Azure resources in this DevOps interview with Senior Technical Evangelist Ross Gardler from MS Open Tech. Ross spends most of the time demoing how to initially deploy a Linux Chef server on Windows Azure, configure the Chef server, and connect the…

In this video we show how to connect native Linux memcache tools to a Windows Azure cloud service cache, and discuss different approaches to leverage caching.

In this episode Chris Risner and Nick Harris are joined by Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Evangelism at Microsoft OpenTech.  In this episode Chris and Gianugo discuss some the latest projects from Microsoft OpenTech including New open source Windows Azure AD libraries…

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In this episode, Rick interviews Abhishek Gupta - a program manager in Microsoft Open Source Technology Center who works on the Linux Integration Services team. He goes through the new release functionality, availability for various distributions as well as previewing the new…

In this video, we will use connected Linux VMs and Windows Azure load balanced sets to show you how we can clusterize services like OpenLDAP and MySQL. We also show how to use readily available open source tools like DRBD, Corosync and Pacemaker to create a shared-nothing highly available…

The Humanitarian Toolbox is a collection of open source software that helps disaster relief workers organize and collaborate more effectively. Bill Wagner was recently on campus for an event and we asked him to stop by to tell us more about the projects in progress and the dozens of applications…

As a newcomer to the .NET world I'm really passionate about its value for open source professionals and Linux users. I think the cross-platform portability of binaries, development solutions (a-la-IDE) available for all sizes and budgets, support for different programming languages including F#,…

OData is a critical building block for Microsoft's Open Data strategy. OData is an open standard currently part of the OASIS process. OData delivers on the promise of making data available via RESTful APIs over the Web, regardless of the database vendor or the database location and respecting…