I’m working on a project that is deployed to Windows Azure and we’re using Visual Studio 2010 as our IDE and Team Foundation Server for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).  Unfortunately we haven’t had a lot of time prior to my joining the team to be able to automate unit tests or the deploy process.  One of the best ways to get support or better support for products coming out of Redmond is to submit suggestions through uservoice.com.  I’d appreciate any support you can provide for deeper integration with Azure.  Until that time I will be attempting to automate testing and deployment for this project with Visual Studio 2010 and migrating over to Visual Studio 11 in the future.

I decided to go with dasBlog since it was supported by my hosting provider and didn't require a SQL Database. For the next few weeks I anticipate tweaks to the configuration and site. I don't anticipate very many users or comments, so any that I receive are likely to be given serious consideration if they include suggestions.

I've been reading Scott Hanselman's blog recently and attempting to follow some of his suggestions on how to have a good blog

I am modifying the blogroll to have only blogs that I actually follow. I did leave a few in from the default dasBlog install, but I removed the ones that looked to be inactive. I may remove a few more of them as time passes. My intention is to only keep the ones that I actually read in place.

I set Akismet up to help with SPAM and disabled captcha, so I'm hoping I don't have to do too much pruning on comments.

I installed Windows Live Writer so that I could do a better job of not messing up the markup (like I already did forgetting to close a <p> tag).