Blogs - David Gristwood


Newgrove, Orpheus, Advertising and Windows Azure[MP4] [0:12:28] [2011/11/08]
Advertising is fundamental to media – so how do advertisers and their clients know that they are getting value? And how can they capitalise on that information? David Gristwood meet up with Newgrove…


Media Science, Big Data and Windows Azure[MP4] [0:14:22] [2011/11/07]
David Gristwood talks to Media Science about how they have used the Windows Azure platform to help solve the problem of "Big Data" - millions and millions of chunks of data, in a wide…


How Active Web Solutions built their Global Alerting Platform on Windows Azure[MP4] [0:12:30] [2011/03/04]
David Gristwood met up with Richard Prodger, from Active Web Solutions (AWS) to discover more built their new “Global Alerting Platform” (http://www.globalalerting.com/), a system that ushers in a…


Windows Azure learnings - Mydeo's 2 Week Proof of Concept [MP4] [0:09:28] [2010/11/15]
David Gristwood talks with Mydeo (http://www.mydeo.com//) at the end of an intense 2 week Windows Azure “Proof of Concept” activity at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in the UK. They talk about…


F# in use at Microsoft Research (#4 of 4) [MP4] [0:40:50] [2010/09/27]
David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, talks to several teams at Microsoft…


F# and Windows Azure with Don Syme (#3 of 4) [MP4] [0:19:40] [2010/09/27]
David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal…


An F# Tutorial with Don Syme (#2 of 4) [MP4] [0:26:46] [2010/09/27]
David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal…


An Introduction to F# with Don Syme (#1 of 4)[MP4] [0:26:52] [2010/09/27]
David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal…


Imperial War Museum, Armadillo Systems and Windows 7 Touch[MP4] [0:14:11] [2010/07/23]
David Gristwood visits the Imperial War Museum (http://www.iwm.org.uk/) in London to find out how they are using a new Windows 7 multi-touch system, developed by Armadillo Systems…


Windows Azure learnings - Exceedra's 3 week Proof of Concept[MP4] [2010/06/10]
David Gristwood talks with Exceedra (http://www.exceedra.com/) at the end of an intense 3 week Windows Azure “Proof of Concept” activity at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in the UK. They…


Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing [MP4] [0:10:57] [2010/05/25]
David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones…


Moe Khosravy talks about Codename "Dallas"[MP4] [0:14:01] [2010/03/26]
David Gristwood interviews Moe Khosravy about codename "Dallas, a key part of the Azure platform, and finds out more about just what it is, why developers should be interested, and sees some…


Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Screencast - "Deploying and Monitoring Applications" [MP4] [0:32:04] [2010/03/04]
Adrian Jakeman from QA, with David Gristwood, takes you through one of the labs from the "Windows Azure Platform Training Kit" - "Deploying and Monitoring Applications in Windows…


Real World Azure Projects Sharpcloud[MP4] [0:08:50] [2010/02/05]
David Gristwood meet up with the founders of Sharpcloud, a startup and member of the Microsoft BizSpark program, to find out how they build their newly launched Sharpcloud application, which is a…


Real World Azure Projects - Factonomy [MP4] [0:11:24] [2010/01/27]
David Gristwood talks to Graeme Bryce, from Factonomy, about the framework they have built on the Azure platform, which is being used by MoneyDasboard.com. In particular, he finds out what first…


Meet the Azure team at PDC09[MP4] [0:20:26] [2009/11/27]
David Gristwood goes roving with his video camera at the PDC to meet some of the Azure team who are responsible for building Azure and deciding the features make it into the product set. This is a…


How Azure is being used in the real world - Azure Deep Dives[MP4] [0:46:25] [2009/11/13]
Microsoft runs occasional Azure Deep Dive events, with a small numbers of customers and partners, to help accelerate their progress building real world solutions on the Azure Platform, and providing…


Hands on with SQL Azure (CTP 2)[MP4] [0:11:14] [2009/11/02]
With the release of the second CTP (Community Tech Preview) of SQL Azure, many developers are starting to get to get to grips with SQL Azure. However, quite a few aren’t aware that many SQL Server…


David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and the cloud[MP4] [0:14:18] [2009/10/20]
“If I ruled the world”, says David Chappell, “I would make the phrase ‘private cloud’ illegal”. In conversation with David Gristwood, David Chappell, during his recent world tour, discusses Windows…


Getting Started with SQL Azure[MP4] [0:12:40] [2009/09/23]
With the recent release of the the CTP (Community Technical Preview) of SQL Azure, it seemed an ideal time for David Gristwood to sit down with SQL guru Keith Burns and have a chat with him about data…