Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Reading Notes #511


Good Monday, it's time to share new reading notes. Here is a list of all the articles, blog posts, and podcast episodes that catch my interest during the week. 

 If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

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Programming

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~Frank

Reading Notes #439

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Books


How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
 

Author: Leil Lowndes

I was interested to read this book to get some inspiration when it's time to talk to people in an event. But this book brought me way more then that. I really appreciated the clear example and the variety. After reading this book you won't be a master, but you now have options to start a conversation.








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Reading Notes #386

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Reading Notes #308

2017-12-02_00-10-58Suggestion of the week


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Reading Notes #294

MagPi60-Cover

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Reading Notes #200

2015-09-06_2133Suggestion of the week


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Books

  • Microsoft Azure Essentials Fundamentals of AzureMicrosoft Azure Essentials_ Fundamentals of Azure (Michael S. Collier & Robin E. Shahan) - This week a felt like returning to the sources, and read the essentials. Difficult to summarize a summary, but all principal family of features are approached and the “must have” tools are over… Even some scenarios. A really good book, evenmore it’s for all.

Reading Notes #182

post-it_AzureBootcamp2015Suggestion of the week


Cloud

released the DocumentDB Data Migration tool, an open source solution that imports data from a variety of sources, including JSON files, CSV files, SQL Server, MongoDB and existing DocumentDB collections.

Programming


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~Frank B.


Reading Notes #172

HomeSuggestion of the week


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~Frank B.


Reading Notes #165

 

OmnisharpSuggestion of the week

 

Cloud

Programming

Integration

  • Azure BizTalk Services: An Introduction - This is the second post of a series on BizTalk. We are still in an introduction mode, but this is good, BizTalk is not a little application or system, and in this time of the Internet of things, it's good to have the good tools.
~ Frank B

Reading Notes #135

 

What is DevOps_coverSuggestion of the week


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  • What is DevOps? (Mike Loukides) - Interesting short and free book that gives you a historical overview of devOps.

Miscellaneous



Reading Notes #127

Suggestion of the week

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Programming

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Integration

  • Streaming Xml Transformations (Christos Karras) - Great tutorial that explains very clearly what are our solutions when we are in front of a complex XML transformation.

Miscellaneous


Reading Notes #119

 

Stack of books-300

Suggestion of the week

  • BizTalk Summit 2013 Wrap-up (Kent Weare) - Very important news from the integration world. This post is a very complete summary of the event. Good job.

 

Cloud


Databases

 

Programming

Miscellaneous


~Frank


Reading Notes Special Books Edition

For the last months I read few technical books.  I thought it could be interesting to add it.  This is not a complete review and it only reflect my personal opinion.


EF CodeFirst coverProgramming Entity Framework: Code First 
By Julia Lerman, Rowan Miller
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: November 2011
ISBN 10:1-4493-1294-2

Note: By the time I write this post the version of Entity framework is 5.0.
Even if this book was about the previous version of Entity framework, it’s a golden mine of information. I found very useful the example that helps me to understand how to define the relation and more importantly what was the deference between the attribute way and the fluent way. It was easy to read, because well explains not because it was doing only the “beginner” stuff. Since EF is really useful when starting a new project or even for a POC, I think this book should be in all developer’s bookshelf.

 
PowerShell BestPractices coverWindows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices
By Ed Wilson
Publisher: Microsoft
Released: December 14, 2010
ISBN-10: 0735626464

If you are a .Net developer and you still don’t know PowerShell or don’t know why you should consider PowerShell than this book is not for you… You should read some Introduction books or post THEN read this book.
This book is all about best practices. It will help you to structures your code or your library of scripts. That way, you will be able to understand and found and reuse all of it. Whether to do something in a build or to deploy something in Windows Azure or even just to quickly do a repetitive task this book will help to do it.  A book to keep nearby. 


Claims-Based_CoverClaims-based Identity Second Edition device
By Dominick Baier, Vittorio Bertocci, Keith Brown and Matias Woloski
Publisher: Microsoft
Releaed: April 21, 2010
ISBN-10: 0735640599

This is definitely THE book to get started with claims. It starts right at the beginning explaining what’s a claim, why we should use it.  Many different scenarios are presented. Each of them is presented with and without claims and most of the time how to migrate from one to the other.  The complete solution is available on codeplex.com and if a PDF is good enough for you; it's also available on codeplex for free. 


Building N-Layered Applications with ASP.NET 4.5N-Layer_Build_cover
By Imar Spaanjaars
Publisher: Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Released: July 2013

This document is, in fact, a series of post about the best practices related to Asp. Net 4.5. While writing this notes, only two or three posts were available online. To get the full document with the source code you must pay. Eventually, all parts of the rich document will be available for free, but it's only 20$ and its own is value.
The solution explained in this document is simple enough so it’s easy to understand the architecture but detailed enough to cover most of the case.  The solution will include a lot of technologies like: Entity Framework, Asp. Net MVC, WCF Services and many patterns: Dependency Injection, Repository, Unit Test, Mocking, etc.
It’s a really well done document, and I think it’s a must to any web developer or architect.

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 App Development
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 App Development
By Scot Hillier, Ted Pattison
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Released: November 2012
ISBN 10:0-7356-7498-1

I read this book to know more about the new “Apps” thing.  While I was ready, I understand that my project was not a good match for SharePoint App, so I didn’t finish it… yet. However, I found the book explications really clear, and it gives me all the tooling and options I needed to get started.
Since Apps are now very present in SharePoint, I decided to include it in my notes.



~Frank






Reading Notes #97

june_26Suggestion of the week


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 Databases

Programming

  • Dojo for jQuery Developers - Incredibly clear tutorial here that compares Dojo with jQuery to explain how things are done with Dojo. The perfect post to get started. 

Miscellaneous

 
~Frank





Lecture de la semaine #2

 

Cloud Cover Episode 23 - AppFabric Service Bus (vidéo)

Épisode très intéressante où le Service Bus est présenté avec un exemple simple. Plus d’information sur : https://portal.appfabriclabs.com et sur CodePlex. Il est possible de télécharger des exemples à partir de CodePlex ou avec Nuget. ref : http://goo.gl/fFY1F

 

Understanding Windows Azure AppFabric Queues (vidéo)

Une autre présentation sur AppFabric, axé sur les queues. ref : http://goo.gl/U3hhZ
 

Console2 - A Better Windows Command Prompt

by Scott Hanselman
Description d’une console « DOS Prompt » génial. ref : http://goo.gl/7AMqo

 

jQAPI - Alternative jQuery Documentation - For Version 1.6

Documentation très bien faite structurée, avec des exemples et permettant des recherches. C'est le même contenu que sur jquery.com mais le contenu formaté différemment et la recherche facilitée. ref : http://jqapi.com/
 

TFS merge tools configuration

Je chercher toujours d’une fois à l’autre « LA » configuration de KDiff dans Visual Studio, maintenant je ne chercherai plus. ref : http://goo.gl/dSGdM
 

Windows Azure MSDN How To tips in one place

Le titre dit tout… ref : http://goo.gl/BirT2

 

Code snippets on blogs, are you allowed to use them in your own work? No you can not!!

Je ne savais pas… maintenant j’en sais plus sur les “code snippets” et leur utilisation. ref : http://goo.gl/lPCUq
 

Tools For jQuery Application Architecture – The Printable Chart

Présentation sur jQuery, l’architecture des applications et les outils disponibles. Ref : http://goo.gl/cz46S
Aussi disponible un livre gratuit : Essential JavaScript Design Patterns 1.1 – A Free Updated Book For Beginners. Disponible ici : http://goo.gl/D98nR

~Franky

Read all of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action now while you wait for the printed book

I just read this on the Jeffrey Palermo's blog, awesome reading.  I'm in a hurry to start...
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Read all of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action now while you wait for the printed book : Jeffrey Palermo (.com): "First, you should place your advance order for ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action at http://manning.com/palermo2. That way, you will receive the printed book even before you see it at your local bookstore.
The entire book is finished, and we are just moving through production right now. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait to read it and learn about ASP.NET MVC 2. Since the beginning of the book project, you have been able to see the progression of the book on GitHub, our project site and version control system. That’s right, version control is for more than just code!
Head over to http://github.com/jeffreypalermo/mvc2inaction and go to the “manuscript” folder to read the entire book in Word document form. All the content is there. In fact, the Word documents for the 1st edition is there as well. You can see just how much we have expanded the 2nd edition to not only cover version 2 but also to incorporate lessons learned using the framework over the last 2 years."
References: http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/read-all-of-asp-net-mvc-2-in-action-now-while-you-wait-for-the-printed-book/