Suggestion of the week
- Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman) - A post to read, and bookmark. I always find awesome tool that I didn't know.
- Introducing Visual Studio Online - This post is a lot more than only an introduction. It explains all the options we will encounter to start our first project, but it also describes how to use it, build with a CI, test, monitor, etc.
Cloud
- A new year's present: introducing Glimpse plugins for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw) - Really interesting tools that provide a lot of useful information. I need to try this.
- Quick ways to edit your files hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS), other than re-deploying - Nice quick tips that can save you a lot of time... and troubles.
- Do you serve your Azure Web Site hot or cold? - Useful use for the scheduler to improve website performance.
- New Windows Azure Network Security Whitepaper (Ashwin Palekar) - This is the post to improve your knowledge about network security, since it references the windows Azure white paper on the topic.
- Cloud Cover Show - Episode 125: Getting started with Application Insights for Visual Studio Online - Really great video. If you don't have time to read the MSDN Mag article or to get a better of the Online experience, this is the video.
Programming
- Composite Pattern: Handling child node collections - Interesting code solution. To read a second time.
- Temporary is The New Permanent - Interesting point of view about caring about our code.
- The Quality of Code (Paul W. Homer) - One of the best posts I read about this topic since a long time. It explains very well how easy it is to lose the focus.
- TypeScript: A New Language for .NET and JavaScript Developers - Nice introduction and quick overview of TypeScript.
- Prefixing ID columns with the table name in Entity Framework - See a time saving tips in this post to rename all ID property of your datamodel.
You can find out more about these conventions in the blog post Custom Code First Conventions (EF6 onwards)
Architecture
- How to Become a Software Architect - Interesting list.
Miscellaneous
- Finding a low-memory browser (Scott Hanselman) - Interesting information, and a simple but useful PowerShell script to get the info.
- What blogging was - Interesting thoughts about what blog became.