Reading Notes #255

Cloud

• AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - I personally value this kind o post where different cloud providers are compared. It helps to see if the solution available and find the best one for our needs.
  
• Announcing Azure Analysis Services preview (Bret Grinslade) - Impressive new service part o the SaaS Azure solution is now available (in preview) .
  
• Google releases .Net APIs for Google Cloud - Good news, now that Google embraced the .Net developers and our tooling, we have even more cloud opportunity.
  
• PowerShell cmdlets to manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Virtual Machines (Felipe Senso) - Nice little tips to know, and so much more in all these cmdlets.

Programming

• Debugging PowerShell Script with Visual Studio Code (rkeithhill) - Awesome tutorial full of tips that will bring you to the next level with VSCode.
  
• Exploring ServiceStack's simple and fast web services on .NET Core - This post is a really nice introduction to an interesting alternative when building services.
  
• Free ASP.NET Core 1.0 Training on Microsoft Virtual Academy - Wow! A full three days of training for free! Don't miss that opportunity.
  
• Why the Command Line? Why Now? - Interesting conclusion about the actual situation.

integration

• An important milestone in enterprise integration – launch of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 (Frank Weigel) - Great post about the Microsoft hybrid integration platform containing, of course, the new BizTalk 2016 Server, but also Azure Logic App.

Miscellaneous

• Download Microsoft Ignite 2016 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois) - Finally... The classic and useful script is out. Enjoy the shows from anywhere.
  
• Ten things we announced today at Microsoft’s Windows 10 Event (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper) - Interesting presentation this week from Microsoft. Not only, they announced new products that look fantastic, but it might stimulate other to push further their limits.
  
• VSTS Sync Migration Tools | naked Agility - Expert in DevOps & Agility with Visual Studio, Team Services, Azure, & Scrum - This post presents a very useful tool to migrate your source control environment to VSTS, easily. And don't forget that under 5 user, VSTS is completely free.

Reading Notes #229

Cloud

• Live Metrics Stream in Application Insights (Beckylin Orooji) - Wonderful, I'm looking forward to testing it.
  
• Create a Service Bus namespace using an ARM template - Awesome news! The service bus was expected in Azure Resource Manager for a very long time.
  
• Logic Apps: Tips and Tricks about the “new” Logic Apps Designer (Sandro Pereira) - This post introduces the great features brought by the redesign of the Azure Logic App designer.
  
• Logic Apps: How to add several actions inside a Loop (Sandro Pereira) - Another great post about Logic App. This time it explains how to do looping and other actions that were done differently in Biztalk.

Data

• Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI general availability (Ryan CrawCour) - Good news, having meta-data it's really nice but being able to see what it contains that's fantastic!

Programming

• Become a Visual Studio 2015 Power User (Allison Buchholtz-Au, Andrew Hall) - All Visual Studio developers must watch this video, big chance you had a d in your hand and didn't know about it.

Miscellaneous

• It's a new blog! (Troy Hunt) - A delicious post, thanks Troy to share that with us.

Reading Notes #203

 

 

Suggestion of the week

• Adding Insights and Telemetry to Logic Apps through Power BI (Jeff Hollan) - Fantastic post that explains how to integrate Logic Apps and Power BI. And for the lazy one that doesn't want to read, check the first haft of this video.

Cloud

• September update: Azure Preview Portal improvements (Leon Welicki) - The portal is changing again, and you can see how Microsoft is really listening to his users.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 101 - This video explains in only ten minutes, what is service fabric and why we should care.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 102 (Scott Hanselman) - You know our bases or you watch the 101; this post goes the code and explains how it can work.

Programming

• Battle of the Free Code Editors (Brian Rinaldi) - Nice post that compares three free, popular, and powerful code editor.

Databastes

• Easily Transform JSON Data When Importing to Azure DocumentDB (Stephen Baron) - Great post that explains powerful ways to import our data in DocumentDB.

Miscellaneous

• Going Back to One (Alexandre Brisebois) - Organize our work to become a performer, could be easily done in Windows. 10.

~Frank 

Reading Notes #200

Suggestion of the week

• Débuter avec Azure Resource Manager (Channel 9) (Julien Stroheker) - Really one of the best videos a saw. If you understand French, this is a must.

Cloud

• Using Travis to Deploy Apps to Azure - This post explains how to build a CI for Azure.
  
• New GS-Series VM (Daniel Wu) - Nice post that not only announces the new type of VM, but also how to convert your actual VM to this type.
  
• Using continuous integration with Azure & GitHub - Perfect post to get started with CI and Azure.
  
• Updates in Azure WebJobs SDK (1.1.0-alpha2) (Pranav Rastogi) - Learn more about the new singleton, redis trigger, logging, and all the other new features in this post.
  
• Seamlessly Migrate Your Application from AWS to Azure in Four Simple Steps (Rajesh Goli) - Wow only four steps to convert… nothing else to say.
  
• Introducing Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging (Clemens Vasters) - This post gives a short intro about the services bus.

Databases

• Azure DocumentDB’s LINQ provider just got better (Aravind Ramachandran) - This quick post lists the feature in the SDK.

Books

• Microsoft 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 #196

Suggestion of the week

• Push-to-succeed: a look into Azure Notification Hubs for business (Alexander Laysha) - Interesting post that explains how Azure and his Notification Hubs could be really useful in marketing.
  
• Getting Started with Windows 10 - This week it's the Windows 10 week. And this post regroups many useful tutorial to get started.

Cloud

• July update for Web apps and App Service environments in the Azure preview portal (Ron Tardif) - This post is a great summary of the new July features.

Programming

• One of My Favorite PowerShell Functions - Nice and useful little piece of code.
  
• Describe Your PowerShell Variables - Nice quick tips to help us remember what we thought when we created those variables.
  
• Installing EF Power Tools into VS2015 (Julie) - Interesting tutorial that shows how to "upgrade" an extension to use it in VS...
  
• Five Common Daylight Saving Time Antipatterns of .NET Developers - Ah the "time"... The more you play with it, the more confuse you can be. Interesting post to avoid common mistakes.

Miscellaneous

• The Secret (and Oh So Simple) Way to Get People to Pay Attention to You (Betty Liu) - Interesting post about business relationship.
  
• How to stay productive while working from home (Xavier Nayrac) - Being myself a remote worker a found this post very close to the reality and inspiring.

~Frank

Reading Notes #177

Suggestion of the week

• The Modern JavaScript Developer’s Toolbox  - If you eared about those buzz words: Grunt, Gulp, Sublime, LESS, Angular, want to know more, This is THE post you are looking for.

Cloud

• Get Your Reading On: Azure eBooks (Jonathan Rozenblit) - 8 free books, what else to say... Thanks of course.
  
• Cloud Computing Can Make Any Old Beater a Connected Car (Alex Davies) - Interesting article about the close future.
  
• Azure API Management Part 1: An Introduction - Nice introduction about the APIM, nice warm up.
  
• Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation (Kim Spilker, Mark) - Nice free ebook.

Programming

• Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Types and Interfaces - Very nice and clear introduction wit also a video.
  
• Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update (Vittorio Bertocci) - Yeah! A long wait but it's here now... Learn all the nice features of this new release in this post.
  
• Comprendre et maîtriser npm - Introduction - The perfect post to get started, for whom read French.

Miscellaneous

• How Leaders Should React When Someone Disappoints (Peter Bregman) - Interesting post about how we should react, simple and efficient.

Reading Notes #164

Suggestion of the week

• How Microsoft Is Taking Over The Cloud (David Thielen) - Very inspiring post about why choosing Azure for our cloud computing is a good decision.

Cloud

• Azure SDK 2.5 and Cloud Service Diagnostics (Gaurav) - Nice post that explains what changed in the Azure SDK.
• Azure Fridays - A Powershell script to Download RSS Videos (Marc Gagné) - Hum. What a create tool!

Programming

• Universal Windows Applications Across Multiple Form Factors Devices: From 4 to 82 Inches: - This post gives some keys things to remember when designing UI with Windows8.
• Does an insecure website compromise the security of a payment system in an iframe? - An interesting post that explains some of the myths security in an e-commerce web site.

• DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview - A detailed look (Derek M Muthukumaran) - Nice post that explains how to enjoy this new feature.

  Brian Keller’s Channel9 Video is a great place to start to learn more about this feature.

• ASP.NET 5 (vNext) Work in Progress - Exploring TagHelpers (Scott Hanselman) - Wow very interesting feature. An invite to get involve.
• Post-Release Goodies (Lucian Wischik,, John Dan) - This post helps us to get started with the .Net.Core open source project by listing some links.
• Introducing Smart Unit Tests (Pratap Lakshman) - This post is perfect to get started with the new unit test features. It contains also a link to a quick introduction video.

  If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature , I urge you to do so;

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Distractions at Work (and Life) (Erik Sherman) - This post remembers us some simple things to stay more focus.
• 3 Qualities Every Leader Needs to Succeed on a Team - Interesting thoughts that an enterprise is in fact, a team of teams, and that the need to work together.
• “Have I been pwned?” – now with RSS! - It's all in the title...;)

~Frank B

Reading Notes #163

Suggestion of the week

• Save the date! Connect(“November 12 & 13”); is almost here - If you missed this incredible event, don't cry because all the presentations were recorded. We can watch them on demand on Channel 9.

Cloud

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

• Building a Text Adventure with Azure and Orleans (Chris Risner) - While the game is not a triple A, I find the idea quite interesting.

• Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 (S.Somasegar) - This article explains all the new things that came out this week.

• Success by a thousand cuts: Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and SQL Azure - Ha Ha, I will quote the author: “Oh man, there is so much stuff I don’t know”.

Programming

• .NET Core is Open Source - Get a better understanding of what is .net Core and the meaning / purpose of the open source announce.

• Visual Studio Community 2013 - Now that all developers can have their Visual Studio, learn what's in this community version.

• The Roadmap for WPF - This post gives all the details about what is coming next for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

• Announcing Open Source of .NET Core Framework, .NET Core Distribution for Linux/OSX, and Free Visual Studio Community Edition - Another good summary of all the great things that was released this week in the Microsoft world.

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 (2013.4) RTM - Learn all about the new features in this update... Codelens, webjobs, Intelisense and so much more!
  
• Visual Studio Community 2013 - Now that all developers can have their Visual Studio learn what 's in the free version called community.

Miscellaneous

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 - Interesting. Agile is more than scrum...

• Why Citi Got Rid of Assigned Desks - Nice post that explains how a re-organized floor can help the productivity and the team spirit.

• Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and More - Learn more about all the amazing releases that happened this week during the Connect event.

• Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community (Scott Hanselman) - This post lists some post that cover all the new stuff that just came up this week. Happy reading.

~Frank

Reading Notes #161

Cloud

• Azure: New Marketplace, Network Improvements, New Batch Service, Automation Service, more - A great package of new features was announced last week, learn more about them in this post.

• Building myEcho - A real startup running on Azure - Great video about how Azure is really used in a real product. A must to see.

• Azure Table Storage little gem – InsertOrMerge (Boris Lipschitz) - An interesting post that explores the just as interesting method InsertOrMerge of the Azure storage.

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

Programming

• Building a working Robot controlled by a C#, an iPhone, and Monkey.Robotics (Scott Hanselman) - Really exiting stuff...

• ASP.NET MVC 5.1 New Features -- Visual Studio Magazine (Eric Vogel) - Nice post that introduces a new feature of Asp.net MVC 5 and shows how easy and powerful it becomes.

Miscellaneous

• Ghost Onboarding - How We Increased Conversion by Over 1,000% - This post is a nice proof that by knowing the impact of our product features we can achieve great things.
  
• Microsoft Office coming to Android in early November (Alex Cobb) - This is a good news, my tablet will become a real on the road device... until I go for a surface 3...

• 10 email security fundamentals for everyday people - This post gives all the best practices to stay out of trouble...

~Frank Boucher

Reading Notes #124

Suggestion of the week

• Windows Azure: Staging Publishing Support for Web Sites, Monitoring Improvements, Hyper-V Recovery Manager GA, and PCI Compliance (ScottGu) - Great update again this week, may of the new features will be very appreciated.

Cloud

• Windows Azure Websites Development Stacks Support (Mark_BrownMS) - Nice post about how Azure website manages config version with his different supported languages.
  
• Using the Same Client-Side User with Multiple Azure Mobile Services (Chris Risner) - This nice post explains what are our options to bridge a UserID across multiple mobile application.
  
• GUIDs VS. IDs on Windows Azure SQL Database - Nice post, where the author gives is answer to a timeless question.
  
• Announcing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” - Interesting talk that you can now download as text. However, the video is still available...

Programming

• Code First Goodies in Entity Framework 6 - Nice article that explains more in details some new features of EF 6.0.
  
• Comments should be sentences (About me) - Interesting point of view about how should be the comments and why.

Miscellaneous

• WTF is an Architect Anyway? - Interesting thoughts about the definition of the role architect.
  
• How Do I Get Things Done? New Pluralsight Course Reveals All My Secrets - Learn the best tips from a real Jedi.
  
• 5 Myths that Can Ruin Project Management - Interesting post that uncovers some myths in project management.
  
• 30 Ways To Leave Google Apps Behind (Ciara Byrne) - Great post not because I agree or disagree with the title idea, but because it presents a lot of great applications.

Reading Notes #83

Suggestion of the week

• Windows Azure IaaS Cmdlets Source Code is Now Available (Michael Washam) - Great! Really good code sample that implements a lot of functionality.
• Windows Azure Virtual Machine and Virtual Hard Disk Management Tool – Can save you Money! (Stephen W. Thomas) - Wow, that a great tool! This post tells you were to find this application, its features and how to use it. Good job.

Cloud

• Creating a Game for the Windows Store (Tyler Doerksen) - Great tutorial that explains how to write your first Windows store application.
• Publishing ASP.NET Web Sites to “Windows Azure Web Sites” Service - Quick overview of the new publish Web Site feature in Visual Studio.
• Global Windows Azure Bootcamp - april 27th (Maarten Balliauw)- Yeah! Are you free on April 27th?
• Want Better Personal Video? Think Underwater Tech And Free Cloud Storage (Michael Chang) - Interesting thoughts about today’s cloud business reality and the future of cloud platform applications.
• Announcing New AWS CloudFormation Deployment Enhancements – Major announcement from Amazon who is directly competing with Windows Azure PaaS.
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 11) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Worker Roles (Jim O’Neil) - Nice short video that explains what is a worker role and his purpose.
• Amazon releases beta of application management solution called OpsWorks (Kenneth van Surksum) - Another post about the new AWS service OpsWork.
• Learn Windows Azure Cloud Services from Beginning: a Mini Online Course (Haishi) - Nice series of videos to get started with windows Azure.
• Improving Windows Azure Table Storage query performance (Ki Yi) - Quick post about best practices regarding querying Azure table storage.
• What's New? - Another release of AWS services this week; this one is about CloudFormation: a tool to enhance automatic task on EC2 instance to reduce the downtime when those tasks are to be execute.

Programming

• Why I Write Tests (Jason Whaley) - If you don't understand the benefice of working in TDD, or if you don't know what's the utility of those unit Tests, is post is for you.
• Getting Busy at Script Junkie (Michael Desmond) - Quick review of what have been done since the site has been moved "under" MSDN.
• Windows Store Apps: A Guide for WPF and Silverlight Developers, Part 1 - Nice post that explains the technical particularities and new concept of the "new" Windows RT platform.
• Using Markdown in Sublime Text 2 on Windows - It's nice to see that other people are playing around with these tools.
• You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall (Scott Hanselman) - This post talks about the issue with carriage return and line feed in merge tool... like github.
• Get Rolling With The Readability API (Richard Ziade) - Nice update for the developer's community.

Database

• Has the term "big data" completely lost meaning yet? - Thoughts about the buzz word Big Data.
• SQL SERVER - Shortcut to SELECT only 1 Row from Table - Good idea, I never think of that! So simple.

Miscellaneous

• Teach your kids to be fans (Scott Hanselman) - Good lesson. Today it's simple to send/ publish hard critics about anything... It is also that easy to congratulations... so do it.

~Frank

Reading Notes #57

 

Cloud

• How to Assess Costs of using Windows Azure for your Applications (Himanshu Singh) - Quick post about a windows paper that provide all the information on Azure usual monthly charges.

Check out the paper.

• Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows (Maarten Balliauw) - M. Balliauw is asking a good question, that I ears often: Why should I do this?
• Windows Azure Visio Shapes - Yahooooo! I never enough Visio shape... Thanks Buck Woody!
• Service Bus for Windows server, the new features - Good post that introduces the new features of the service Bus and explains them quickly.
• Cloud Cover – Episode 84 - Windows Azure Storage Updates and a Preview of the Client Storage Library vNext - As usual nice video (shorter than last time ;) ). It reviews the new features available in Azure Storage, and show a preview of the Azure Storage libraries that will be release soon.

Programming

• ASP.NET Web API and Azure Blob Storage (Yao) - Super tutorial that show step by step how to manage your Azure Blob Storage by code, by doing a nice helper class.
• The 5 thing to immediately grab from EF Open Source - Good post that point out some place where you can see good code sample.
• When do you need a 3-tier architecture? - Good question! And this post is trying to answer it.
• Building an Offline HTML5 Application - Great tutorial about a well-structured HTML5 application that will also works offline.
• Entity Framework 5 and 6 Roadmap - The list of interesting features of the EF5 and some that are planned for the version 6.
• Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points - Nice post that summarize how to use some keys counters in order to have a better estimation of the project delivery date.
• CloudSurvey (Nathan Totten) - Nice work. A great sample to see how things are done.
• WCF - Top 10 Interview Questions (Imran Abdul Ghani) - Excellent post and excellent revision of what is WCF. Short and clear.
• Exterminating Common jQuery Bugs (Elijah Manor) - Wow what a great video. It goes through all most frequent mistake we make, explain why it doesn't works and fix it. Take a look at the tool he is using. An open source (soon) presentation framework. Very nice!
• 10 Application Performance Tuning Tips - Nice tips, simple and efficient.
• So you want to contribute to EF? Part 1: Introduction (Arthur Vickers) - Excellent series not only to kwon more about how to contribute with the Entity framework (EF) but with any kind of open source project.

Miscellaneous

• 5 Ways to Think Wisely in Development (Dimitrios Kalogirou) - Nice post that expose 5 ways to be a wiser developer.
• Sitting is Making You Fat and Killing You - Nice warning post that explains why say sit for a long period is bad and gives some tips to improve our comfort.
• Who Are You Really Mad At? (Peter) - This is about a life lesson: Pause. And like in the post you will be reward.
• Time to stop reusing your passwords - Nice reminder of the reason why we shouldn't reuse our e-mail.
• Get The Most Out of Your Mornings - Nice post that explain how to you could use your mornings to add 280 hours in your year.
• Time Management Tips #3 - Three Wins for the Week (JD Meier) - Simple tips from the book Getting Results the Agile Way that will help you to have a better week.
• 10 classic mistakes that plague software development projects (Justin James) - Nice post that make me smiling. I challenge you to pass through the list without thinking: oh yeah that's so true...
• True Secret to Success (It's Not What You Think) (Geoffrey James) - Suggest a very simple mental exercise to make your day more positive.
• I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. (Kyle Wiens) - I agree the grammar is really important, even if I’m not good as I want to be.
• 3 Interview Questions That Reveal Everything (Jeff Haden) - Nice post. I like the questions it's true that you should learn a lot from them even if the candidate is not "verbose".

~ Frank

Reading Notes #55

Cloud

• Monitoring your Windows Azure Web Site (Brian H. Prince) - Nice post that explain how to see the statistics of your servers with the new Azure graphic interface.
  
• Overview of the Windows Azure Platform (Neil Mackenzie) - Great overview in this post about all the features of Windows Azure, specifying the advantages of each one.
  
• Azure for Developers: Introduction to the Tutorial - Wow great job! This series of 8 post will explains all the basics (and more) about Windows Azure by constructing, step by step a real application. A perfect get started for all developer.
  
• Windows Azure IaaS Overload (Michael Washam) - All regroup in one posts a lot of videos about crash course on Windows Azure IaaS.
  
• Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services - Nice job from Larry Franks to the brand new Azure Cache with Ruby.
  
• Migrated to Azure Web Sites - Nice post, all the steps needed to move an existing Wordpress blog to Windows Azure.
  
• Switching to Windows Azure - Interesting post, from someone who changes is mind, and went to Windows Azure.
  
• Announcing the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory - Great news, even if it's in a very early age this is very interesting... now let's play with it!
  
• Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage (Gaurav) - Always very interesting those posts where two or more products are compared...

Programming

• Is recursion really bad? - Interesting demo about efficiency of recursive code compare to loop and stack. I would have liked to see the code that was used to test.
  
• Azure CDN Cache busting CSS image references and minification (Iain Hunter) - Interesting tricks to take advantage of the Azure CDN with minified css using pre-build event.
  
• Rhino Mocks Isn’t Complicated (Jim Cooper) - This post by doing code sample comparison between convinces me to try it again. It's true that a Rhino mocks has change since last time I worked with it. The "new" syntax is really clearer.
  
• Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed - Nice post very detailed that show how powerful is LINQ.
  
• Create Reminders in Windows 7 Without Outlook (groovypost.com) - Nice reminder ;) about the one of the great tools available on windows platform the task scheduler.
  
• Integrating Balsamiq Mockups with Google Drive (googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.ca) - Great news! I'm a big fan of Balsamiq and this "move" really makes sense.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners - Interesting post about the WPC that append on the week on July 10th.
  
• 10 crazy IT security tricks that actually work (Roger A. Grimes) - Good tips about security, even if some of them are for servers the other are simple to apply and should be very efficient.
  
• The Best Strategy for Reducing Stress (Peter) - Great post, in today's word being able to manage is stress could be life saver.
  
• Motivate Employees: 4 Techniques to Try (John Baldoni) - Interesting thoughts about some technics you use to motivate people you work with.

~Frank

Lecture de la semaine #7

• Windows Azure Design Patterns, Part 1 (David Pallmann) - Très bon post. Les symboles sont beaux et clairs. Je vais les utiliser assurément. Reste plus qu’à attendre le volume 2 : The Windows Azure Handbook. (Suite à une mise à jour les icônes peuvent sont disponible ici).
• Microsoft CIO Tony Scott: How to Avoid “Cloud Paralysis” (CIO, Microsoft Tony Scott) – Cinq leçons apprise suite à une courte utilisation du « cloud computing ».
• The Microsoft Cloud Like You’ve Never Seen It Before – (vidéo) Ce vidéo parle des différentes itérations des Data Center de Microsoft. Très intéressant.
• The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts (hanselman.com) – Grâce à Scott j’ai quelque chose de bien à lire chaque semaine! De prime à bord les conseils semblent peut-être faciles, mais la simplicité est la clé… Et les valeurs par défaut aussi ;)
• Using MSBuild to deploy your AppFabric Application (Justin Beckwith) – Un article très complet avec beaucoup d’information. Un exemple à faire pour tout retenir.
• node.js running in a Windows Azure Worker Role – Je crois que Node.js à beaucoup de potentiel. J’ai aimé cette « expérience ». À suivre…
• OData Feed Fun Or There's no Atom/RSS Feed, but there is OData, so there IS an Atom feed – Modifier un flux RSS pour obtenir, ou garder, exactement ce que l’on veut… Ça, c’est une bonne idée!
• 25 Ways To Become A Better Writer – Oui, je sais, encore d’autres articles non techniques, mais ce « post » est très stimulant. Lisez, vous verrez!
• Chatty DM, Freelancer – Une série intéressante, un parcours tortueux pour « bien » finir… ça me fait penser à quelqu’un… ;)
• Part 1: Lessons from Academia
• Part 2: Lessons from Day Jobs
• Part 3: RPG Blogging, The Revelation
• Chatty DM, Freelancer, Part 4: The Pit and The Plan

~ Franky

Lecture de la semaine #6

 

• A JavaScript Trick You Should Know - Nice tricks I need to remember this one... so simple!
• Why is the Cloud so important to software developers? - Nice post. Simple word that show you the picture
• Easily Add Performance Counters to Your MVC Application - Really nice post
  del.icio.us Tags: AppFabric,Tools,Azure,Cloud,video
  about using MVC filter tag to replace repetitive code. Great job!

“to read more about the filter attribute, see bit.ly/kMPBYB”
“The list of built-in MVC filters can be found here: bit.ly/jSaD5N”

• The cloud will have no impact on IT departments - Compare the madness of cloud computing to the introduction of Excel a few years ago.
• Using Moq to mock ASP.NET MVC HttpContextBase - If you never try Moq, this is a good sample to show how everything is easy.
• Developing a Windows Azure AppFabric Application (Windows Azure Team) - Part 1 of 2 steps to build a simple application using Windows Azure Appfabric application.
• Configuring, Deploying, and Monitoring Applications using AppFabric Application Manager - Part 2 of 2, well documented with a lot of screen shot how to bring and configure a Windows Azure Appfabric application.
• Does Size Really Matter? – This is absolutely not a technical article, more a geeky one. But AD&D is good stuff too! ;)
• Scripting vs. Coding vs. Programming - Ooooh I like this one. It’s a classic. What do YOU think?
• Tools and Techniques for .NET Code Profiling (MSDN Magazize - Toolbox) - A lot of good references on articles and tools. You should bookmark this one.

“Profiling Your .NET Code : bit.ly/dDXWsF”
“ - Guide to Improving Code Performance in .NET: Part I” by Satesh Arveti on C# Corner (bit.ly/gyImk9)
- Writing Efficient C and C Code Optimization” by Koushik Ghosh on Code Project (bit.ly/icnYEi)
- Writing High Performance .NET Code” by Juan A Rodriguez and Simonijt Dutta from Intel (intel.ly/fvweaP)”

• Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects - Some simples (but needed) requirements for a JQuery plugin to be interesting.
• 7 Blogging Statistics Rules (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post as usual. If I must say an one liner for this post I would say: “Blog for yourself and ... enjoy!”
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw) – I really good post again, that answer the question: Does Windows Azure is interesting for me?

“Deploy sites to Windows Azure in less than 30 seconds Enables deployments to multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy Saves Web Deploy packages & IIS configuration in Windows Azure storage to provide durability A web administrator portal for managing web sites deployed to the role The ability to upload and manage SSL certificates Simple logging and diagnostics tools.”
“Installing the WAAWR is as easy as download, extract, buildme.cmd and you’re done.”

• Cloud Cover Episode 50 - Episode 51 - Builds an AppFabric Application and Web Deploy and the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles.
• Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles – Really nice, short a quick intro that show the big picture.
• Design Patterns,Practices and Techniques with the Windows Azure – This is a advanced video, but it contain everything.

~ Franky

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