The 10 Rookie Mistakes Every Android Developer Should Avoid

If you've resolved to make 2012 the year you jump into Android development, here are some Android n00b pitfalls to avoid.

How to Run Native Code in Your Azure Service

Windows Azure, by default, runs code in low trust. In this article, we explore how to enable running an Azure service with full trust.

Going Beyond Cloud Basics: Understanding Advanced Web Roles

Knowing the knobs and hooks available for web and worker roles in Azure can be very helpful to administer complex configuration settings. This article walks us through an understanding of these advanced roles and how we can use them in our Windows Azure based cloud services.

5 More Notable Java 7 Changes

Project Coin ushered in a notable set of Java 7 language changes. Here are five that cover everything from generics to NIO to GUIs.

How to Keep Tab of your Windows Azure Hosted Services

Not only does Windows Azure provide a reliable platform to host and execute services, it even provides a set of Service management APIs to help create application which can be used to monitor these services. In this article, we will walk through the creation of a simple monitoring application which will list our Azure services running in the cloud.