Richard Astbury richorama

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Digital & App Innovation Specialist at @microsoft working with the UK energy industry.

richorama / index.html

Last active July 26, 2017 09:18

Programmatically determine your nearest Windows Azure Data Centre

	<html>
	<head>
	<script>
	var locations = {
	"speedtestwe": "West Europe",
	"speedtestsea" : "Southeast Asia",
	"speedtestea": "East Asia",
	"speedtestnsus": "North Central US",
	"speedtestne": "North Europe",
	"speedtestscus": "South Central US",

richorama / index.htm

Created January 7, 2013 16:15

Drop this file into a *public* Windows Azure Blob Storage Container, and open the page in your browser. It will display a list of the blobs for you.

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
	<script src="http://jquery-xml2json-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery.xml2json.js"></script>
	<script src="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-1.0.rc.1.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<script>

	$(document).ready(function() {

richorama / gist:3690582

Created September 10, 2012 12:10

Writing to a Windows Azure Storage Queue from Mobile Services

	var request = require('request');
	var crypto = require('crypto');
	var url = require('url');

	function insert(item, user, request) {
	put_message(account, 'queuename', item.text);
	request.execute();
	}

	var account = {

richorama / gist:2923167

Created June 13, 2012 09:59

Simple class to create and write to performance counters

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Diagnostics;
	using System.Linq;

	namespace Two10.Utils
	{
	public class PerformanceMonitor : IDisposable
	{
	string counterCategory = null;