- Sync Framework Toolkit now available for download - This toolkit allows other platforms to be used for offline clients such as Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Mobile; in addition, non-Microsoft platforms such as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry can be utilized as well as HTML.
- #1 Cause of Startup Death? Premature Scaling – Good post from the author of the book: Nail It then Scale It, tell is opinion about the risk of scaling too fast.
- Experiment with Role.Instances Collection and creating all Role Instances Order – Nice experience.
- How to become a great software developer - 13 points to be a better developer. Do you agree with all of them?
- Cloud Programming Concepts – Detailed post about everything. From the definition of the cloud, historic to a first application.
- Visualize Your Data: Charts in Google Apps Script! - I use to know Google chart in the query string but now you can create them by script! Sample code.
- Entity Framework Tips and Tricks: Use GetObjectByKey When Querying a Single Entity - Good tips to use the caching instead of poking the database each time with the EF.
- SQL Azure Essentials for the Database Developer - Good starting point of SQL Azure from a sql geek.
- Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases - Great sample. See the library (smarx.WazStorageExtensions) in action.
- Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure - Quick and easy way to start task scheduling in Azure.
- A basic non-cloud-based personal backup strategy - The cloud is not mandatory... here a good example.
- Using Co-Administrators with your Windows Azure Subscription - Very nice and more secure.
- Cloud computing: the triple fallacy - A lot of questions that don't highlight the usual.
~Franky