Feel at home with Azure? Well then, how about a free online hands-on workshop, with two weeks of free Azure hosting, for ya? - “@Home with Windows Azure”

StructureTooBig Blog - Register To Attend A Windows Azure Virtual Hands-On Workshop

“I’m really excited to announce a project my colleagues Jim, John and I have been working on.  We wanted to come up with a project that would: 1) be fun for users to learn Azure, 2) help illustrate scale, 3) do something useful, and 4) be fun to develop (from our end). 

I think we got it!  Here is a rundown:

Elevate your skills with Windows Azure in this hands-on workshop! In this event we’ll guide you through the process of building and deploying a large scale Azure application. Forget about “hello world”! In less than two hours we’ll build and deploy a real cloud app that leverages the Azure data center and helps make a difference in the world. Yes, in addition to building an application that will leave you with a rock-solid understanding of the Azure platform, the solution you deploy will contribute back to Stanford’s Folding@home distributed computing project. There’s no cost to you to participate in this session; each attendee will receive a temporary, self-expiring, full-access account to work with Azure for a period of 2-weeks.

Visit the project home page at http://distributed.cloudapp.net.

For this briefing you will:

• Receive a temporary, self-expiring full-access account to work with Azure for a period of 2-weeks at no cost - accounts will be emailed to all registered attendees 24-48 hours in advance of each event.

• Build and deploy a real cloud app that leverages the Azure data center

Who should attend?

Open to developers with an interest in exploring Windows Azure through a short, hands-on workshop

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This isn’t a static lecture, but a hands-on, get your fingers into the code and have stuff really running on Azure (with two weeks of free Azure hosting included).

(via Pla.NET Southeast! - Get your head in the cloud(s) with this free training)