RavenDB - locked database base when running Azure emulator

Thought I'd note this down for anyone observing this in the future - this was purely down to user (me) error!If you ever find yourself using the embedded version of RavenDB in an asp.net based azure hosted service running in the azure emulator locally don't play around with azure instance settings as it can f**k-up royally and cause you no end of pain with your RavenDB instance.Specifically if you change the number of instance to anything other...

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Configuring default page for azure service

Been playing around with Azure for a week or so now and I'm starting to get my head round it, to be honest it ain't that difficult. @RichGee & I are going to be deploying RESTful services into the cloud for our shiney ninja project and whilst we are spiking these out I wanted to be able to set the default page, you know something like 'default.html'.Now this was easy when hosting a service in IIS, all you had to do was specify the default document...

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Getting app feedback from windowsphone.com

I was chatting with my good friend Denis (@dhaman) about user feedback for the apps he's produced for the iPhone & droid app stores and just like the WP7 app store they all fall short in supporting your app once released out into the wild. I was also reading the final post in the '31 days of mango...' by @jeffblankenburg and he talks about promoting your app, he mentions the great work Nick (@spacescape) did originally for...

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