Reading Notes #219

Suggestion of the week

• I Hated JavaScript - Awesome post that presents Typescript under is best light.

Cloud

• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET (Brady Gaster) - This post will explain why you really want to upgrade to this new SDK version.
  
• Syncing Files Between Devices with Azure File Sync | - Nice tutorial that shows how to build a Xamarin application leveraging files synchronization between devices.
  
• Upgrading to the Azure Search .NET SDK version 1.0.1-preview - Wow!So So much in this new version, I'm looking forward to play with it.
  
• Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio (Charles Sterling) - Great tutorial that shows how to use one of the more popular testing tools in a CI solution running in VisualStudio Team Services (VSTS).

Programming

• Visual Studio Code and local web server (Lachezar Arabadzhiev) - Really cool and light solution to develop a website or web application.
  
• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window (Scott Hanselman) - Repl...Yep it's real thing an it could be really useful. L more about this tools and where to find it, in this post.

Books

• Free eBook: Enterprise Cloud Strategy - Hmmmm. To read.

Reading Notes #217

Suggestion of the week

• Building an ASP.NET 5 website using Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and Yeoman - If you are looking for a super light .Net environment, whatever you are on Windows, Linux or Apple, this is th perfect post to get started.

Cloud

• Azure IoT Hub in Public Preview - Quick intro to Azure IoT Hub leveraging the excellent AzureCon video.
  
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers - This nice post regroupes nice Azure storage type, enough to make you fall in love with F# right await.

Programming

• Version Control PowerShell Scripts with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services - This post describes a fantastic solution if you already have Visual Studio (it could also be the free community edition). But vscode could also be a nice. solution.
  
• Evolution of #CSharp (1.0 to 6.0) - an Infographic (Kunal Chowdhury) - Cool recap an infographic.
  
• Submitting your first Pull Request (David Paquette) - Nice post, that demystifies a lo o things, if Git is new for you or that open source projects.
  
• Task runners in Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen) - This post regroups many extensions to Visual Studio that will definitely speed up repetitive process.

Miscellaneous

• Visualizing Your (Real) Software Architecture (View all posts by Erik Dietrich) - This post describe a situation that too often true, and suggested a way to avoid it.
  
• When did we stop caring about memory management? - That totally right!
  
• Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable - Interesting post, how many of this Howard type did you work with?

Reading Notes #214

Suggestion of the week

• Express - This is the perfect post to get started with node.js with Azure. This post starts with you step by step from a vanilla computer running OS X or Linux to your first App.

Cloud

• Troubleshooting – ma llowedContentLength Exceeded - Useful quick post for all the none asp.net user on Azure.
• September update for Web Apps and App Service environments in the Azure Preview Portal (ron Tardif) - Nice post that lists the September features of the new (not preview anymore). Azure portal.
• Microsoft Takes Azure Portal out of Extended Preview (2015 | Richard Seroter on Dec 14) - It's all in the title, but since the devil is in the detail .... that the post to know about it.

Programming

• Setting up Continuous Deployment for Android with VSTS and HockeyApp - HockeyApp is definitely a must for all mobile develpment teams. This post is a nice intro to it and also to VisualStudio Team Services.
• What I Learned After A Week of Visual Studio Code and ASP.NET 5 - I've been too busy (or lazy) to do that test myself and try to do my next project on a Linux machine only with VSCode as tools... that post was a real pleasure to read of that.
• Exploring Azure DocumentDB in Visual Studio (Andrew Hoh) - This post reveals all the feature of this very powerful addition the already great cloud explorer, VisualStudio add-on.
• Visual Studio Code: PowerShell Extension (Sergiy Baydachnyy) - Nice post of a series and cool introduction to a useful vscode extension... if you still don't have already installed it yet.

Data

• Power BI Desktop Custom Visualization (Scott Murray) - Learn more about how Power BI let you expand the Wow effect of your data in this nice post.
• Reading Your Way Into Big Data - Perfect post to get started to the data platform and build your ready queue.

Miscellaneous

• “Fixing” Windows Live Writer’s NotFound - Open Live Writer… - The brand-new Open Live Writer is still very young, this is how walkaround one of the frequent problems.
• Announcing Open Live Writer - An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer - Great newsthis llong time amazing tool will probably get a lot of improuvement in the next months.
• Get more awesome Pluralsight content than ever for zero dollars! - That news was the sunshine of my day, now we don't have any excuse not to get our subscription in Plurasign.