MSDN subscription and incorrect spending limit removed message

The Azure Billing team rolled out a new feature on 4/20 which shows a spending limit notification for MSDN customers. These spending limits are enabled by default on customers who activated their MSDN benefit on Windows Azure after 12/10. Spending limits were not available on MSDN subscriptions before this date Unfortunately, the “spending limit notification [...]

Building a Heroku add-on for fun and profit

The code for this project is located on github: https://github.com/bilalaslam/django-heroku-addon Herok has a fantastic add-on marketplace that gives developers like me a set of services we can use to build apps: If you’re a startup or a small developer, getting featured on the Heroku marketplace can mean extra cash in your bank account every month. Who [...]

Another Windows Azure billing release: two awesome new features!

The Azure Billing team just shipped another release of account.windowsazure.com. Here are the new features: 1. Spending limit notifications for MSDN subscriptions MSDN users get one of three MSDN-only special offers on Windows Azure, which include up to 1,500 hours of compute (among other goodies). A special feature of these offers is that they have [...]

accounts.windowsazure.com now redirects correctly

accounts.windowsazure.com now redirects to account.windowsazure.com, instead of giving a DNS error like it used to. Sometimes it’s the little things that count