Our friends over in developer land are running a number of short(ish) webinars and hands on courses which may be of interest to you if you're developing Apps for clients/using or planning on using Azure.
All the details and registration below:
Azure Weekly Webinars:
16th September, 23rd September: The Azure Weekly runs every Tuesday from 12:30 – 13:30 (UK timezone) and is aimed at the techie who has not yet had any/much exposure to Azure but who just wants a leg-up to get started. This is a more practically focused session than a theoretical/architectural session and is 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.
Cloud Camps:
12 September: In this hour long session we'll start to look at how to get started with Azure to build virtual machines, web sites, mobile services and cloud services in Azure, before the practical, hands on course with live instruction and labs on the 19th September
19th 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.
Web Camps:
19th September: Microsoft Dev Camp Taster Webinar: Build, Deploy, Scale! In this hour long session we'll take a look at the Modern ASP.NET platform and discover what it takes to build beautiful, interactive and fast web sites and scale them using Microsoft Azure. We’ll look at Building Web Applications that span devices using the latest ASP.NET technologies.
26th September: At this 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 covered in the sessions and demonstrated with extensive hands-on resources. 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