Blogging by the MCS UK Solution Development Team

My buddy Carl Nolan mentioned that him and some of the Microsoft Consulting Services solution development team had kicked off a new blog recently to share some of their experiences and knowledge.

It has the catchy title: http://blogs.msdn.com/mcsuksoldev/

Now – I’ve worked with most of this lot in one form or another over the past few years. Typically, this has been via our 3-week “Proof of Concept” work in the Microsoft Technology Centre. I can tell you that – when you’re leading a high profile, 3-week engagement, with brand new technology that absolutely, positively has to be delivered on time, then Carl, Dom, Simon, Nick, Dave, Erwin, Duncan et al. are precisely the people you want carrying that load.

Which means they’re likely to have some interesting stuff to say such as:

• Using Microsoft Codename Dallas as a data source for Drupal
• Running Extreme Retrospectives
• Running Memcached in Windows Azure
• Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure with SQL Azure

If you’re a code junkie, then this will be worth keeping an eye on.