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RobBlackwell

  1. VM Export Service For Amazon EC2 aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/vm… 3:15 PM May 25th via Safari on iOS
  2. @seanronan Cerebrata cloud studio / PowerShell CmdLets. Disk shipping is also possible if you ask MS nicely. 2:07 PM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone from Mid Suffolk, Suffolk   in reply to seanronan
  3. Microsoft, what are you doing? engadget.com/2012/05/24/mic… 12:13 AM May 25th via Safari on iOS
  4. Old Farts Know How to Code nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/o… 10:10 AM May 24th via Safari on iOS
  5. Another Lisper in Microsoft! .. @jorgetavares good luck #Lisp jorgetavares.com/2012/05/20/pro… 11:43 AM May 20th via Safari on iOS
  6. Finally figured out how to use lispbuilder-sdl on Mac OS X. It just works on Windows and Linux. stackoverflow.com/a/10673816/140… #Lisp 6:31 AM May 20th via Tweet Button
  7. Blimey, a *resilient* file system for Windows. blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2… 12:31 AM May 19th via Safari on iOS
  8. Light Table is in YC. Is this the start of a revolution in developer tools? chris-granger.com/2012/05/17/lig… 12:27 AM May 19th via Safari on iOS
  9. Meet Windows Azure meetwindowsazure.com 1:26 AM May 16th via web
  10. Openshift -Redhat's new cloud offering - all the bits are open source. openshift.redhat.com/app/ 12:00 AM May 16th via Safari on iOS
  11. Blogged: Exploring Windows Azure Network Latency, robblackwell.org.uk/2012/05/13/exp… 2:33 PM May 13th via web
  12. @MikeOrmond I think that's the "eventual inconsistency" design pattern at work. 1:56 AM May 11th via Twitter for iPhone from Mid Suffolk, Suffolk   in reply to MikeOrmond
  • Name Rob Blackwell
  • Location Ipswich, UK
  • Web http://www.robbla...
  • Bio Hacker, R&D Director at Two10 degrees, Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure. Grumpy old man.
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