Cloud
- Enableing gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role (Avkash Chauhan) - Because compression is not supported by default here a nice tips about how to implement it.
- Working with SSL certificates on Azure and IIS7 (Iain) - Nice post where few "gotchas" are explained with their workaround/solution.
- Cloud Comments .net - Discuss about the new price drop of AWS and the lack of tools to help to calculate the cost, or to compare it with the usual on premise solution.
- Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application (James Urquhart) - Great article that deploy a simple Asp.Net application in three different cloud environments: Azure, AWS, Iron Foundry then compare the effort.
- Announcing Reduced Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and Compute (Steven Martin) - A fantastic news! we can now have a instance 24/7 with a database for less than 20$.
- Moving SQL Azure Servers Between Subscriptions (R Syam Kumar) - It's now eaiser than ever to move a database between different Azure subscription. that all possible to a new feature that been add:Server Move in the database section. be aware that price may be different in each subscription.
- My Experience as a Developer at Startup Weekend (Saturday and Sunday) (Jason Haley) - Nice post about true experience at start-up weekend.
- Logging best practices - Good post to re-align our logging practice. What to log, or what to not.
- Using Cloud9 IDE to Deploy to Windows Azure - As usual nice show. this week is a lot about Node.js.
Programming
- How I work with Live Mesh, SkyDrive, and Office Live Workspace (Buck Woody) - Good post that explains one setup you can use to get your files synchronized and available on many device.
- How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you're on a plane) (Scott Hanselman) - Nice one... be sure to take note of this because when the network will be down... it will be too late.
- 10 web development concepts designers should know - Nice tips that apply more for designers but developers should found some of them really useful.
[..] Beanstalk also have a brilliant guide to version control for those who are using it for the first time.[..]
- Maarten Balliauw {blog} (maartenba) - Nice short post on how you could "improve" your works with MyGet using less feeds.
- 3 Simple Things to Make Your jQuery Code Awesome (Joseph Zimmerman) - Great tips that will take only 5 minutes to read/ learn and that will save a lot of time and memories at runtime.
- Visual Studio Magazine (Eric Vogel) - This nice article explains clearly the strategy pattern by refactoring a simple scenario.
Miscellaneous
- Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 2 (Chatty DM) - Part 2 of a series about Dad and son playing RPG.
- Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 3 (Chatty DM) - Part 3 of a simple RPG game to be the best dad ever!
- Why I really love SCRUM - Nice post to learn more about Agile Scrum, the idea of icebox and pivot tracker, a nice tool.
- Dark Matter Developers (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post where some analogies between Dark Matter and some developer is made. Funny and true.