Reading Notes #272

Cloud

• Cloud Messaging – Amazon or Azure? (Steve Smith) - Great post that suggests an answer to the eternal question.
  
• Connect Tableau to an Azure Analysis Services server (Josh Caplan) - Nice integration.
  
• Visual Studio Talk Show - Les données et Azure (Guy Barrette) - It was really pleasant to record that podcast. I hope it is also to listen.
  
• Leverage the Azure CLI with these examples (Brian Benz) - If you would like to help Azure CLI to get better, this post explains how you could help.
  
• Using templates to customize restored VMs from Azure Backup (Trinadh Kotturu) - This post shares nice tips to get the maximum of our VMs backup.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core Error Management with elmah.io (Damien Bod) - Elmah is a fantastic tool. This tutorial explains how to use it with .NetCore.
  
• Options for CSS and JS Bundling and Minification with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tutorial that shows the how to find our sweet spot with the minification in VS2017.
  
• ZEIT now deployments of open source ASP.NET Core web apps with Docker - Scott Hanselman (hanselman.com) - Interesting new tools. I'm looking forward to trying it myself.

Databases

• Planet scale aggregates with Azure DocumentDB (Aravind Ramachandran Program Manager) - Fantastic news that was requested a lot by all the users. Get all the details in this post about all these new capabilities.

Reading Notes #98

Suggestion of the week

• Windows Azure: Announcing New Dev/Test Offering, BizTalk Services, SSL Support with Web Sites, AD Improvements, Per Minute Billing (Scott Guthrie)- This post is a mandatory reading. Know from the source what's new! So many good things, that I don't know where to start...
• Announcing "Get Involved" from Tekpub - Enhance your career by engaging with your peers (Scott Hanselman & Rob Conery) - Really great video that explains how to be involve in the community, the good way. Really nice work.

 

Cloud

• How To: Setup Windows Azure PowerShell  - Quick post that explains how to get ready to play with Azure with PowerShell.
• Cloud Cover Show, Episode 109 - Using Windows Azure Active Directory from Windows Store apps - Nice episode with V. Bertocci that get us up to date on all the news Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) features.
• Running WordPress with SQL Azure - That a great workaround! It could be super if we had this option when creating the application.
• Is Amazon becoming the Microsoft of cloud? Hold that thought | ZDNet (Service Oriented Joe McKendrick) - Interesting post about the future of the major players who wants to rules the cloud.
• Microsoft’s “Understanding the Microsoft Cloud” White Paper Misses the Windows Azure IaaS Boat (Roger Jennings) - Hard critic of a Microsoft White Paper. However, it's true that this paper does reflect Azure IaaS reality.
• Cloudy Thoughts by SyntaxC4 - Quick post that introduces some cool new feature for PHP in Azure...
• Windows Azure PowerShell June 2013 Update for IaaS and PaaS (Michael Washam) - With new Azure capabilities comes great PowerShell functionality... this post is all about that. Also Michal Washam is announcing that he is quitting Microsoft.
• Cloud Cover Show, Episode 110 - Windows Azure BizTalk Services - Great show with a demo done by no other one then Guru Venkataraman.
• Checking Azure Cloud Service SDK Version with PowerShell (Tyler Doerksen) - Nice and useful script.
• Azure VM Access Control with PowerShell (Tyler Doerksen) - Great with this post we now know all the new features that came up last week: powershell cmommand.

 

Programming

• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman) - This post is not really recent, but really interesting. If you still don't ELMAH this post is for you.
• Making Computer Science Cool (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Really good resources post that gives place to get started based on our level of confort. It could also be use at home for our kids... I wonder if this kind of information is also available in other languages...
• TypeScript: Scaling Up JavaScript - Great video from TechEd, it was hard to wait until the end to start doing TypeScript...

Databases

• Azure does Powershell too (Grant Fritchey) - Nice quick introduction to Azure Sql PowerShell cmdlets.

 

Integration

• Walkthrough of New Windows Azure BizTalk Services - Again a great post/ tutorial from Seroter. This is THE place to start to know more about the Biztalk services (WABS)

 

Miscellaneous

• Are you secure? WiFi Honeypots, Pineapples and SSL with Troy Hunt - And I though a knew the danger of the WiFi. You must spend 30 minutes and listen this post... and re-share!
• Live Demonstration: Hacker Tools You Should Know and Worry About (Hasain Alshakarti, Marcus Murray) - Wow! Very "perturbing" video that shows a lot of different tools to help you... or not.

~Frank

Reading Notes #9 (Lecture de la semaine)

Back from vacation, a lot of reading to catch-up.

• A cloud batch execution tool - Very interesting. In some of my past lives this could saved me hours of pain. Here's the documentation and here a video demo.
• Four 4 tips for developing Windows Services more efficiently  - Good simple tips to be more efficient developing services... and it can be applicable to all dev.
• When It Comes to Cloud, First Things First – Strategy and Training – Nice post published during the last #AzureWednesday…  Also Don’t mist the next episode of Manager Tech Talk, September 8, 2011.
• Various Options to Manage Session State in Windows Azure – Describe the different way to maintain session in the cloud. Also you can try the  Universal Providers presented in a previous post: The Magic Provider (also call Universal Providers)
• Welcome to Windows Azure’s Silver Lining – The first post of a new blog that need to be follow, especially if you’re not .net developer.
• Windows Azure Web Role and ACSv2 Application Exception - New version mean sometime new "features" (read bug). To understand one of them read this post. A workaround are also presented.
• Interface Attributes != Class Attributes – Nice and clear explanation of some difference between interface and class; or should i say base class.
• The Power of the Default (MSDN Mag) - You thick you know what should be a default value on an application... This post is for you.
• Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy - A short story... and a great new look.
• How to Speed up Windows Azure Deployments - Quick tips to make more enjoyable your dev. time with azure.
• Using ELMAH in Windows Azure with Table Storage – Show a simple way to use a great tool. With a Nuget implementation.
• Searching Windows Azure Storage with Lucene.Net (MSDN Mag) – Great article, this will be useful someday.

- A nice .NET version of the open source Lucene search and indexing library, which you’ll find at incubator.apache.org/lucene.net

- Tom Laird-McConnell created a fantastic library for using Windows Azure Storage with Lucene.Net; you’ll find it at code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureDirectory.

• Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features - Great intro to the tool. The azure analytics feature is really nice. I will come back on this one for sure.

The analytics documentation as well as the storage team’s blog posts on logging and metrics have more details

• Announcing Windows Azure Storage Analytics - Another good post about the azure storage analytics.
• Deploying the Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role – A lot of goods links and good advices. Watch the cloud cover episode 54 show for other detail.
• Announcing the August 2011 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 - Great new I was waiting for that one!
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know - Wow I think I was knowing my chrome browser. How could I be that foolish? I really like the un-minify feature...  Web developer be aware you MUST read this post. Also a cheatsheet link is available.

~Franky