Reading Notes #197

Suggestion of the week

• Deploying a VM using Azure Resource Manager – Part 1 (Marc Gagné) - Really great tutorial that is the perfect. How to deploy with Powershell using Azure Manager Resources 101.

Cloud

• A Complete List of Microsoft Azure Tools (Scott Ge) - Pretty good list of tools available today to work or plan your work with. Azure.
  
• What is the Azure Marketplace? (marc) - This is a good post to get started on Azure Market place.
  
• Ruby, TinyTDS, and Azure SQL Database update (Larry Franks) - Nice update, looking forward to upgrade some Ruby scripts of mine.
  
• Scheduling Azure Automation Runbooks with Azure Scheduler (Christopher Mank) - Great tutorial on Automation, very complete.
  
• Transitioning Application Insights from the VSO Portal to the Azure Portal (Dale Koetke) - We have until October to move our Application Insights in VSO to Azure. All you need to know to have a smooth migration is here.

Programming

• Five Common Daylight Saving Time Antipatterns of .NET Developers - Ah time, the more you play with the more confuse you can be. Interesting post to avoid common mistakes.
  
• Dependency injection in ASP.NET 5 - | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog - Dependency injection is a very good structure to facilitate testing. The new Asp.Net 5 help a lot going that way.
  
• 5 Tips for Dealing with Unreliable Web APIs - Summary of best practices when working with APIs.
  
• Continuous deployment (Gabriel Schenker) - Nice post to get started on continuous delivery and what it’s means.

Podcast

• .NET Rocks!  - I really like Glimpse, and it was nice to learn more about the journey of its creator and have a peek on what coming next.
  
• Systems Thinking: Less Coding, More Thinking with Kishau Rogers - Very stimulating episode, a lot of great ideas…

Miscellaneous

• Making the Complex Simple - Interesting thoughts about productivity traps.
  
• Making a clean exit – how to leave your company with friends, not dependencies - Interesting post on how to be professional when leaving.
  
• Apt-Get for Windows - OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10 - A new tool in Windows call OneGet… a package manager… manager.
  
• 10-minute workouts to improve your writing - Really interesting exercises… that are easy to fit in any schedule.
  
• New Package Roundup (izuzak) - Cool list of new Atom packages.
  
• Scrum or Kanban: Which form of Agile is best for you? - Nice post that explains the main differences between the two more popular Agile methods.

Reading Notes #162

Suggestion of the week

• Azure Service Bus 101 with Dan Rosanova - With those three videos, you will get started on the service bus in Azure and the Pub-Sub pattern. A thirty minutes well invested. Azure Service Bus 102 and Azure Service Bus 103

Cloud

• #Azure Table Storage - Using StartsWith to Filter on RowKeys - Nice post that explains some good practices to get quickly what we are querying for, and while keeping our code clean.

• Azure : How to publish a web site from VS2013 to Azure (Sacha Barber) - Nice first post of a beginner series on how to do things on Azure.

• Azure API Management Part One: An Introduction - Really nice post to get started with the brand new api manager of Windows Azure.

Programming

• Version 1.9.2 for Asp.Net Released (Anthony van der Hoorn) - Times to update your NuGet packages.

• NuGet Package of the Week - Courtesy Flush to flush buffers earlier and optimize time to first byte (Scott Hanselman) - As usual, this series of posts from Scott presents us another NuGet's pearl.

Miscellaneous

• Open Graph, Twitter Card and Schema.org support in Ghost - Good news, because having a shared message well formatted is always better.

• Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing at All - This post gives some tips on how to follow this golden rule.

• 151 Blog Post Ideas Guaranteed to Blast Off Your Blog (Matt Banner) - Hey bloggers, do yourself a favor and stimulate yourself with tons of ideas for new post. Very stimulating.

• Moving on from Scrum - Disciplined Agile Delivery - Nice post that gives all the interesting bookmarks of the book Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).

~Frank Boucher