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Eric Nelson and a team of 15 developers (including myself) have pulled together a free eBook covering some of the possibilities and techniques when developing with the Windows Azure Platform. The eBook is available as a free PDF download and can be viewed on SlideShare as well. If you are interested in how the collaborative journey came along check out Eric’s post.

The two articles that I authored are: Implemented a Distributed Cache Using Worker Roles and Building a Content Based Routing Service.

We will be writing a second volume later this year and potential ideas for new articles are welcome!

A few months ago I started working on a new home project that I wanted to keep under source control. My only requirement was that it be closed-source as I wasn’t ready to share my idea with the world yet. I am cheap, and I decided to look for a free alternative first before I decided to pay someone. I stumbled upon XP-Dev.com.

What I get with XP-Dev Free:

• Subversion Hosting up to 500 MB
• Unlimited number of Projects
• Wiki Pages
• Blogs & Forums

XP-Dev.com has only suffered one outage since I’ve been with them, and the owner of the site was very vocal with what the status was for getting back online.  For any new projects that you are working on, or if you want to have something under version control, I definitely suggest using XP-Dev.com.