Reading Notes #159

Suggestion of the week

• Azure: Redis Cache, Disaster Recovery to Azure, Tagging Support, Elastic Scale for SQLDB, DocDB (asp.net) - Great news features. One of my favorites is not to optimize the production but the ability to attribute tags to resources.

 

Cloud

• Ghost, Node.js, and Azure Websites: Not a Pretty Picture (Shawn Wildermuth) - Interesting... I though it was because I mess something that I got issue last time I update my blog.

• Cloud usage flavors for Development and Test teams - Quick post that enum how a team could use the cloud.

• Comparing Clouds: IaaS Provisioning Experience (Richard Seroter) - Great review of different cloud eco-systems.

• Azure BizTalk Services Introduction for BizTalk Devs (Matt Milner) - Great article that explains how BizTalk works in Zure as PaaS or IaaS.

• What is Azure DocumentDB (Dhananjay Kumar) - This post presents Windows Azure DocumentDB with a lot of screenshots.

 

Programming

• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: MVC View Components - This post explores Asp.Net vNext and his View components.

• Raygun.io and ignoring specific Web API exception types (Troy Hunt) - Since web APIs are very common, this post explains how to fix what could be a very common problem.

• Running ASP.NET MVC 6 on Linux - It not as simple as double-click, then next..next...next but it looks like not that hard.

 

Database

• DocumentDB Studio first (beta) release (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Wonderful idea! I can't wait to see the next version with querying capability.

 

Miscellaneous

• Using a Surface Pro 3 full time for two months (Scott Hanselman) - Great post that gives us the pros and cons of the surface pro 3.

~Frank Boucher

Reading Notes #158

Suggestion of the week

• The Deploy to Azure Button - This post tells us about the evolution of an amazing idea to simplify the deployment to Azure.

Cloud

• Azure Private Cloud: Ship it - Interesting post that talks about how a private cloud could be a great option for your enterprise.

• Infonuagique et vie privée : je t’aime moi non plus! - Interesting post in French that talk about some security concerns related our personal information in the cloud.

• Available on AWSLabs - That's a great news for all Xamarin developers.

• Amazon DynamoDB now supports JSON document data structure and large items - Great new it's now event easier to use the DynamoDB.

• Introducing the Azure Automation Runbook Gallery (Beth Cooper) - Great post that introduces the Azure Runbook Gallery and explains how to use it and also how to add our Runbook to it.

• Designing for Big Scale in Azure (K. Dotchkoff) - Nice post that explains how we should change our design in the cloud and use logical container or scale units.

• Automating the tedious parts of open source on Azure (Scott Hanselman) - This post walks us through the new optimized process of GitHub CLA service account with Azure.

Programming

• Custom Login Scopes, Single Sign-On, new ASP.NET Web API – updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend (Carlos Figueira) - Nice post that explains how to use some great feature of asp.net web API.

• Contributions to Azure documentation and SDK’s on GitHub just got simpler (Guy Burstein) - Because simpler is better. Nice update.

• Simple HTTP api for Executing PowerShell Scripts - Interesting alternative idea when you don't need any interaction with the user.

• Announcing Infragistics Xamarin.Forms! - Another good news for Xamrin developers, now your mockup could be closer to the final look.

• Challenges in handling date and time in REST API and distributed web applications (Saravana Kumar) - This post share with us the strategy they used to manage dates, and explained why they did it that way.

• Responding to Events with TypeScript and Backbone -- Visual Studio Magazine (Peter Vogel) - Nice tutorial, the third of a series, about building a single-page application. More to come.

• Building a Better NuGet (Edward Charbeneau) - Nice post that gives us the best practices when developing a NuGet package.

• Some challenges with Node.js on Windows - This post shares some workaround when developing in Node.js on a Windows environment.

• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: MVC View Components - This post explores Asp.Net vNext and his View components.

Miscellaneous

• The Greenfield to Brownfield Transition -Interesting thoughts about how we should embrace different kinds of opportunity....

• Adding Custom Post Meta Data - Nice update to help with the ranking with Ghost blog.

• Plex for Xbox One is here and my life is complete - Plus Synology setup how-to (Scott Hanselman) - I'm a huge fan of Plex myself and just want to share this great news with everyone.

~Frank