If you one of the MANY Windows Azure developers who weren’t able to make it to the Build Windows conference out in California this week then don’t worry too much. Sure, you won’t get that spiffy new Samsung slate PC running Windows 8 Developer Preview, but you can get the same session information on Windows Azure. The focus of the BUILD conference is not the cloud, but they do have just under two dozen sessions dealing with Windows Azure.

At a CINNUG meeting quite a while ago I was talking about the Windows Azure Storage subsystems: Queues, BLOBs and Tables. While I was talking about Queues a question came up about using the Clear method on the CloudQueue object. The MSDN Docs state: “The Clear method clears all messages from the queue”. The question was, Does this also delete messages that are currently invisible (meaning a process has them taken them off the queue using GetMessage or GetMessages but has not deleted them yet)?

A while back I did an interview with Dave Nielsen (from CloudCamp). This has been up on YouTube for a while, but has recently been posted to the Bytes by MSDN series. You can catch the interview on the Bytes by MSDN site. The abstract for the interview is: “Join this cloud discussion with Michael Wood, from Strategic Data Systems, and Dave Nielsen, Co-founder of CloudCamp. At Strategic Data Systems, they work on various projects including proof of concepts.