Make it easier for people less familiar with Windows Azure to come up-to-speed quickly.
AdminMike Wickstrand
(Admin, Microsoft Windows Azure) shared this idea
At PDC 2010, we announced the introduction of new scenario based Windows Azure platform forums to help answer questions and to enable more efficient knowledge sharing in the community. We’ve also vastly simplified the setup process, and made the Windows Azure portal more intuitive and user friendly.
What other kinds of features would help you get up to speed more quickly?
7 comments
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Dave Fellows
commented
Suprised there's so many votes for this. I can't see how it could be much easier. Plus there's sooo much content on the web to get started. Agree with Steven - this time needs to be spent elsewhere.
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Steven Nagy
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-1 : I would rather the team added features than worrying about this. Its not that hard really, and there's lots of help out there in the community. I WOULD like to see some Azure MVP awards going out and encouraging the community from that perspective.
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David Bennell
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I have been playing around with it for a little bit now and I am currently marvelling at how easy it is to use... If you are familiar with creating ASP.net sites, windows services and/or WCF services then there is only a very small hop from that to Azure.
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Jim Nakashima
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We've gotten a fair number of votes on this feature item -- what areas of learning Windows Azure today are harder than they should be? What's missing in terms of our developer facing content?
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marcoshaw
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In general, I found the "Azure process" to be relatively easy. I think you need to define your target audience here. You're talking about making it easier for an intermediate/advanced C# developer or a junior system administrator, for example?
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marcoshaw
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@Joannes Vermorel: I'm sorry, but there is no real connection between "make it easier" and "make it faster".
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Joannes Vermorel
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IMHO, if you want to speed-up the start of new dev on Windows Azure, then you should really consider massively speeding up the Windows Azure console (which just reflect the slowness of the underlying fabric).
The folks of SQL Azure have a terrific fabric where a new DB is spanned in seconds, while getting a 100ko ASP.NET live on Windows Azure takes more than 20min from compile time to server being up and running.
