Reading Notes #374

Cloud

• Publishing Static Content to Azure Blob Storage (Jason N. Gaylord) - Yet another great tutorial to copy files from inside an Azure Pipeline.
• The Wide World of Microsoft Windows on AWS | Amazon Web Services (Jeff Barr) - Great list of Windows services running on AWS with some context, very instructive.

Programming

• Accessibility Insights for the Web and Windows makes accessibility even easier (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tools. Definitely, something I will look into.
• New features for extension authors in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 | The Visual Studio Blog (Mads Kristensen) - That's a lot of 'little' thing that would make a big difference. Well done.
• Progressive Web Apps & Electron (Felix Rieseberg) - Excellent post that does a thorough comparison between pwa and electron app.
• Tests code coverage in Visual Studio Code with C# and .Net Core (Alberto Bar-Noy) - Awesome post that introduces a code coverage tool for .Net Core.

Podcast

• Hevesh5 - Making a YouTube Career from Viral Domino Art (#46) (That Creative Life) - Great show. An amazing story.
• Azure Functions using Node with Simona Cotin (.NET Rocks!) - Great show. I just switch my website following that Jam stack pattern. I was planning to use Azure Functions to add a few little twists.... I'm happy to see that I not alone thinking like that!
• 0230 - Alain Vezina - Le métier du DevOps (Visual Studio Talk Show) - Super épisode, très intéressant d'entendre parler du rôle de DevOps de quelqu'un qui le vie au quotidien. Merci de la suggestion, je crois, bien que je suis du pour relire The Pheonix Project.
• Goal Setting Tips & Tracking KPIs (Video Pursuit Podcast) - Really interesting episode. Everybody is talking about matrix and KPI... But it's not frequent to hear about the "how". I really like how the goals are explained, achievable, but not easy... And how we should react when we don't reach them.
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Miscellaneous

• Show the Time to Read Your Markdown in VS Code (John Papa) - Cool new little extension for writers.
• Surface Pro – Don’t forget to update the Dock (buildbod) - Great advice, that will save you a lot of time.

~ Good week!

Reading Notes #116

 

Cloud

• A complete overview to get started with the Windows Azure Scheduler - Very complete tutorial on how to manage the new Azure Job scheduler by code.
  
• Migrating a Java Spring Framework Application to Windows Azure (Gregory Leake) - The starting point for Java developer.
  
• How to write to and read from Windows Azure tables within Web Applications (BrunoTerkaly) - An impossible to fail tutorial that take you by the hand and guide you step by step.
  
• Manage Azure Subscriptions with Office 365 Users (Tyler Doerksen) - Nice tips to manage/add security.
  
• Staying Current on Technology for your Organization (Buck Woody) - Interesting though and methodology to stay up to date with techno.
  
• Migrating Database Workloads to the Cloud - Great source of information. This article describes all the scenarios with the pros and cons then helps you in the steps to do it.

Programming

• Code Maps in Visual Studio 2013 - Interesting feature that improves a lot the visualization of our code.

Channel 9 has an excellent streaming video that covers Code Maps here 

Databases

• re: Why You Should Never Use MongoDB (Ayende Rahien) - NoSQL is very popular, but we should learn and do our homework before starting a big project, like this post shows us.

Miscellaneous

• Using Surface RT for presentations (Gunnar Peipman) - Really?! I'm honestly surprise by the ordinary/medium performance...

~Frank