While Windows Azure is designed first and foremost to appeal to .Net developers, Microsoft has been adding tools for those who want to work on cloud apps using PHP, Ruby and even -- gasp -- Java.

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Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties. [Click on image for ...

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As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...