Cesar De la Torre

Principal Program Manager, Azure

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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Panda Security releases a free Beta version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, in the Cloud, on Windows Azure!!

January 6th, 2012
I publish this information because I’ve been collaborating with them on migrating their backend anti-virus system to the Microsoft PaaS cloud which is Windows Azure. They have got many benefits on doing this, like elasticity, rapid scalability, and one of the most important things, they have reduced their costs and TCO a lot!. It is a ...

We completed the Microsoft Architects Forum: Enterprise & ISVs Applications on Windows Azure (Barcelona Dec. 13th & Madrid Dec. 15th)

December 16th, 2011
  It was a nice event exposing Windows Azure scenarios very oriented to ISVs, subjects like Multi-Tenancy, Security, Java apps on Windows Azure, etc. Additionally we had three companies (Panda-Security, Softeng and Grupo Teldat) talking about their real experience in their projects when migrating their products to Windows Azure, talking ...

Architects Forum: Enterprise & ISVs Applications on Windows Azure (Barcelona Dec. 13th & Madrid Dec. 15th)

December 3rd, 2011
  (image) In December we’re going to deliver this free assistance event focusing on enterprise applications and architectures on Windows Azure, subjects like MULTi-TENANCY on windows Azure, and showing optimizations, scalability and load testing made by real Windows Azure customers like PANDA-SECURITY and SOFTENG. This is the ...

Creating an X.509 certificate for Windows Azure

November 29th, 2011
I always forget the command line to do this, so I’m going to post it in my own blog. The way to set a specific certificate name, so you can find it within Windows Azure after it is registered, is using the Certificate Creation Tool (makecert.exe) to create an X.509 certificate: - Open the Visual Studio Command Prompt window as an ...

We completed the IASA-DDD Conference! (November 7th 2011)

November 9th, 2011
It was a remarkable DDD (Domain Driven Design) event in Madrid, Spain. We got around 150 attendees!!, and taking into account that this is the inaugural event from the IASA-Spain association, and this association was almost unknown in Spain, until now, it is something I must highlight. Of course, having the keynotes delivered by Eric Evans and...

How to explore a Windows Azure Package (How to create it with no encryption)

October 5th, 2011
As you may know, a Windows Azure package is a .ZIP file, but, it is encrypted, so, even though you can rename the extension, when you take a look into it, you cannot really see the project files. In order to see it, you need to create a package which is not encrypted. You can do so setting a System Variable (in the Properties menu within &...

Eric Evans and Udi Dahan in Madrid! (DDD Conference and Workshops, Nov.2011)

September 20th, 2011
Eric Evans and Udi Dahan in IASA DDD (Domain Driven Design) Conference and Workshops!!! (Nov.2011). This is a unique opportunity. On November 7th, there will be an initial conference (free registration) introducing DDD & CQRS, and then, during next days (Nov. 8th and Nov.10th), there will be several workshops run by Eric Evans and Udi ...

EF 4.1.1 RTM (Update) and Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP Released

July 30th, 2011
EF 4.1 Update 1 (EF 4.1.1) has been released a few days ago. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/07/25/ef-4-1-update-1-released.aspx The important point is also EF 4.1.1 Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP Released: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/07/27/code-first-migrations-august-2011-ctp-released.aspx This is really ...

Value-Object pattern implementation in .NET

July 20th, 2011
Regarding DDD patterns, here I link two nice Value-Object implementation samples: http://elegantcode.com/2009/06/07/generic-value-object/ http://grabbagoft.blogspot.com/2007/06/generic-value-object-equality.html...

About Ayende’s blog posts series reviewing the NLayered Sample-App

July 20th, 2011
Ayende has been publishing a series of blog posts reviewing the V1.0 of the NLayerApp Sample App (Note we made V2.0 public a few weeks ago, so most of the code issues he highlights do not apply now). We’ve been taken into account every of those posts as well as every comment from the community in his blog. Some comments to Ayende’s...