Tutorials: Creating your first website with Azure

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

My Tech Evangelist colleagues, Joe Raio and Brian Sherwin, have create a great set of video tutorials on how to create your own website using Azure. This is part of Microsoft’s Choose to Code campaign, which guides your middle and high school students through a series of online tutorials walking them through the process of creating and publishing their own website.

If you are using Azure Passes, watch this video

If you are using DreamSpark, start with this video

Still need Azure? Reach out to me to inquire about BizSpark

BizSpark: Free software and cloud services for your startup

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Jennifer Marsman wrote a great post on her MSDN blog about the benefits of BizSpark and how to get started with the program. This step-by-step tutorial can help get you enrolled as well.

Perks of the program:

http://wootstudio.ca/startups/bizspark.aspx
Windows 10 developer accounts (Xbox, Windows)
Visual Studio Ultimate licenses
Windows licenses (multiple versions)
Office 365 developer account
$150 / month Azure credits (for each dev on your team, up to 5 total, $750 value)
Website hosting, virtual machines, databases, & mobile services
Visual Studio Online (Formerly TFS)
90 Days of pluralsight + DigitalTutors training
Free marketing support with Microsoft

Who qualifies?

Actively engaged in development of a software-based app, product, or service that will form a core piece of your current or intended business. (NOTE: you must be building a product! Startups providing consulting services are not eligible.)
Your company is privately held, and in business for less than 5 years.
Makes less than US $1 million in annual revenue