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

Develop WordPress on Azure Made Easy

Developing WordPress on Azure now is quite easy, thanks to the rich tools provided by Microsoft. Based on my recent experience, in this post I will highlight what needs to be done to easily develop WordPress on Azure. Prerequisites Have an

SSL redirection

From www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com TO https://www.mydomain.com To accomplished the above redirection, there are few options, you can do it in IIS, web.config, live server sitting, redirection in the code level Web.config In web.config you can put the below code inside tag and that should work: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Redirect domain.com to www” patternSyntax=”Wildcard” stopProcessing=”true”> <match … Continued

E-commerce … or NopCommerce?

When I was first asked to write a E-commerce site, I have to decide which language to use? Should I use open source or should I use a product out there? And after a lot of research, there is really not a single product out there that will just work out of the box and … Continued

To Azure or not to azure

Lately we been moving website into the cloud, but before answering the question to azure or not to azure, perhaps we should find out to cloud or not to cloud… I think there is no definite answer to this question, and to see if your project fits into the cloud, you should look into what … Continued