If you are like me and you missed your chance to attend Mix09, then all is not lost as you can view the Azure sessions 

Here's the list of Azure sessions:

• Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services
• Introduction to the Azure Services Platform
• Overview of Windows Azure
• Building Web Applications with Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Storage

Updates to the Azure platform, must spend some time on this soon

Greetings from the Azure Services Platform Team,

We are excited to announce that we have released an update to the Windows® Azure™ SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio®. These latest releases are available here:

• Install both the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio and SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752
• Install the Windows Azure SDK alone: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130232

• Support for developing Managed Full Trust applications. It also provides support for Native Code via PInvokes and spawning native processes.
• Support for developing FastCGI applications, including support for rewrite rules via URL Rewrite Module.
• Improved support for the integration of development storage with Visual Studio, including enhanced performance and support for SQL Server (only local instance).

• Combined installer includes the Windows Azure SDK
• Addressed top customer bugs
• Native Code Debugging
• Update Notification of future releases
• FastCGI template

Microsoft have release the January CTP edition of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK Kit

Windows Azure Software Development Kit (January 2009 CTP)

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio January 2009 CTP

These newly released SDK and Tools include:

• Bug and performance fixes
• Improved integration with Visual Studio
• Performance improvements with execution and debugging scenarios
• Improvements to Storage Client and ASP.Net provider samples
• Added support to debug Silverlight in a web role

Here is a set of link you may need to get you going with Azure and the Microsoft Cloud

DDD7 presentation by Chris Hay, includes Power Point Presentation and Source Code, this is the best examples I have see to date

Welcome To The Cloud (Complete).zip (2.41 mb) 

Here are a few links I have found on my travels, that will help getting going 

Windows Azure How Do I Videos

Cnet News Article 

Windows azure developer starter guide

Windows Azure - What Happens in the Data Center? 

The cloud for a fast deployment of proof of concepts 

Question and Answers

The Azure Services Platform is designed to help developers quickly and easily create, deploy, manage, and distribute web services and applications on the Internet. Windows Azure is an operating system for the cloud that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers on-demand compute & storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft data centers. 

Windows Azure is elastic, flexible, and interoperable. With Windows Azure developers can achieve high levels of service availability and application interoperability while maintaining freedom of choice. 

The Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the tools and APIs needed to develop, deploy, and manage scalable services in Windows Azure. 

Software Development Kit  

The Azure Services Training Kit will include a comprehensive set of technical content including samples, demos, hands-on labs, and presentations that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. This initial PDC Preview release includes the hands-on labs that were provided at the PDC 2008 conference. These labs cover the broad set of Azure Services including Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services. Additional content will be included in future updates of this kit.

Training Kit

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure. 

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

• C# and VB Project templates for building Cloud Services
• Integration with the Development Fabric and Development Storage services
• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric
• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages
• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal
• Role configuration
• SSL Certificate selection 

Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

Five webcasts for Azure to help you along the way

• Part: 1 Azure Services for Developers: Fundamentals
• Part: 2 Azure Services for Developers: Developing a Windows Azure Application
• Part: 3 Azure Services for Developers: .NET Services
• Part: 4 Azure Services for Developers: Microsoft SQL Data Services
• Part: 5 Azure Services for Developers: Live Framework Services

Okay it has taken me quite a while, but I finally found this Blog on how to publish to the Microsoft Cloud. 

A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

Not for getting you'll need an activation key Id to enable your services, I'm still trying to get mine. 

With Microsofts Cloud now available in CTP, I am looking at writing a blog entry about this great technology, but in the mean time if you are planning to use the Azure Tables, then it is worth checking out Chris Hays blog on Azure Tables

Azure Tables, Entities and Partition Diagrams

It give a good explaination of the Partition Key.