http://slholmes.org/blog Adventures in Semantics Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I attended philly.NET's SQL Azure hands on lab in Ft Washington. I was happy to see that SQL Azure was very close to normal Microsoft SQL Server in many ways. I hope to post an in depth article on SQL Azure in the near future. Rob Keiser's talk ... http://slholmes.org/blog/?p=538 I am researching the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform. What follows are the notes I am taking as I learn this rich "cloud-based" environment. If you are just getting started with Windows Azure like I am, you may find these notes useful. To keep the start up costs of ... http://slholmes.org/blog/?p=424 A few weeks ago, I started to build a server. After years of playing around with open source software, I finally started to build an environment that I could easily deploy to that will let me work out the particulars of the things I'm particularly interested in particular.I've grown quite ... http://slholmes.org/blog/?p=414 Where am I?Recently, I configured my Blackberry and a variety of softwares to let my friends and family know approximately where I am at any given moment. I tried a variety of applications and techniques and settled on those that work best for me. Automated location tracking is still in ... http://slholmes.org/blog/?p=261