Django running on Linux VM using Windows Azure

At Confoo 2013, we have worked with Make Web Not War and created a HTML5 Word Cloud using HTML5, socket.IO and Node.JS which runs on a Linux VM using Windows Azure. Yes, you have heard it right – LINUX VM on Windows Azure! As of lately I

Using Azure Worker Role as Email Processing Server

Windows Azure enables you to be more creative by leveraging web/worker roles, parallelism, queuing, service bus, distributed cache, and a lot more. I just want to share an easy way to delegate the email component to Azure Worker Role and Azure Queue storage. Sending email is a very basic and common scenario for web application. … Continued

EF Code First 4.3 Migration Exceptions

While working on a project using EF Code First recently, and came across the EF database migration. By following the Microsoft blog on how to perform the automatic migration, we hit an strange error when running the command “Update-Database”. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.ArgumentException: The parameter is … Continued