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Weekly webinar: How to get started with Microsoft Azure

Tune in, tune up on Tuesdays

Promo Microsoft UK is running a series of Azure training sessions and seminars this month, kicking off the The Azure Weekly webinar on Tuesday 16, 12:30-13:30 (BST).

Tune in for practical hints and tips from Steve ‘Planky’ Plank, a Microsoft technical evangelist. His broadcasts are aimed at the “techie who has not yet had any/much exposure to Azure but who just wants a leg-up to get started,” he says.

The weekly webinars are mostly based around the following demos:

  • Creating a Microsoft Azure WordPress website
  • Creating a Microsoft Azure ASP.Net website
  • Creating a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine
  • Creating a Microsoft Azure Mobile Services (with Android client)
  • Creating a Microsoft Azure Cloud Service
  • How to sign up for a free Microsoft Azure Trial subscription

Sign up for the upcoming webinars on 16 September and 23 September.

More dates for the diary

Doors open at 8am for Cloud Camp, an all-day live event in Reading on 19 September. Come with your laptop to this practical, hands-on course with live instruction and labs showing you how to get started with Azure to build virtual machines, web sites, mobile services, cloud services in Azure.

Developers! This one is for you

Also coming up: an all day Web Dev Camp in Cardinal Place, Victoria London on 26 September and some practical Azure webinars (free registration required).

At the Web Camp, you’ll learn how to develop ”beautiful, interactive and fast web sites using Microsoft’s web tools and platform. You will also learn how to deploy and scale your web sites with the cloud”.

Here’s a snapshot of the topics that will be demoed in the sessions:

  • Introduction to ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2013 Web Tooling
  • Building Web Applications using the latest ASP.NET technologies
  • Building web front ends for both desktop and mobile using the latest web standards
  • API Services for both web and devices
  • Running, improving and maintaining a site in the real world
  • Real-time Communications with SignalR

Can’t spare the time? Need more convincing? This webinar on Friday 19 September, 12:30-13:30 (BST) Microsoft Dev Camp Taster: Build, Deploy, Scale! may be for you.

Martin Beeby, a Microsoft technical evangelist, will explore the “ModernASP.NET platform and discover what it takes to build beautiful, interactive and fast websites and scale them using Microsoft Azure”. Martin will look at building Web applications that span devices using the latest ASP.NET technologies:

  • Real-time Communications with SignalR
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript frameworks Scaling with the Azure Cloud Platform.

You can find out more and sign up below:

Azure Webinar 16 September online, 12.30-13.30 BST
Dev Camp Taster Webinar 19 September online, 12.30-13.30
Cloud Camp 19 September Reading, 8.00-17.00
Azure Webinar 23 September online, 12.30-13.30
Web Dev Camp 26 September London, 8.00-17.00
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