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I signed up for Live Mesh this morning. I’m curious, but not super excited about it. It is still in the beta phase so it could crash and burn at any moment, but it is still worth looking at. I usually carry around a hard drive with all of my music and code samples. This might save me a lot of that hassle/risk. If I copy my music to a local disc (update as needed) and throw all of my code files into the cloud, I might be able to skip the whole thing. I do have backups of the disc from the nightly Home Server backup process, but it is still a hassle and a risk to carry around a hard drive all of the time.

At the office, I need to repair a RAID disc failure, get another backup protocol online and then start looking at backing everything up to the cloud. I am thinking JungleDisc might be the way to go based upon the current situation. Anything that I can reduce a process to a one-click and/or a click-and-forget is very good thing.

It’s all about data storage and retrieval. I wonder if MS has anything available to BizSpark members…

References:

Live Mesh
mesh.com

Jungle Disk
http://jungledisc.com/

I went to an MSDN event yesterday. The topics were Azure, Debugging and Mobile Programming. Azure was interesting. I learned a lot about Azure and I learned that I shouldn’t think too much about it just yet. It won’t do what I need it to do at this time, plus it is a CTP and not ready for prime-time. That’s why they call it a community technology preview. Duh. One huge topic is storage. They don’t have rows. I can’t save a single record. This rather small issue makes it almost impossible to transition data between a local SQL server with a row-based relational model to the entitiy-based Azure data model. That could be a problem. But, as I said, it’s a CTP and lots of smart people are working on it. <shrug≶

The dugging section was the best for me. I learned a few little tidbits that should make my life a little easier. The speaker, Bruno Terkaly, had already posted his debugging tricks to his MSDN blog so I could pay attention and not scribble down notes. I skipped out a few minutes early so I missed all of the mobility discussion. (The word is I missed getting a free book as well.) Read more…