Reading Notes #19


AzureAppFabric

 Cloud

 

Miscellaneous


~Franky

Reading Notes #18


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Cloud


Programming


    Miscellaneous


    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #17


    rain cloud

    Cloud


    Programming


    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #16


    Cloud

    "SQL Azure Reporting enables new hybrid IT scenarios - for example, customers can schedule automatic synchronization of on-premises databases with SQL Azure, and then deploy cloud-based BI reports based on the synchronized cloud-based data"

    Programming


    Miscellaneous

    "Microsoft’s Tony Meleg actually did an excellent job frankly discussing the future of the middle platform and their challenges of branding and cohesion.  I strongly encourage you to watch that session"

    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #15




    Cloud



  • Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start - First post of a series about moving to azure. Some good links.
  • Moving to Azure: The Database – (part two)  SQLAzure is so nice ;)
  • New Docs: AWS Getting Started Guides for Linux and Microsoft Windows - New docs... Great!
  • Hosting a Web Site Completely from Windows Azure Storage (David Pallmann) - If smaller is better, will you prefer 0,15 or 90?
  • TechDays 2011: Developer Tools, Languages, Frameworks & awesomeness (Frédéric Harper) - A lot of good things... And it’s coming at Montreal!
  • Does Windows Azure Startup task have time limit? What to do with heavy processing startup task in Windows Azure Role? (Avkash Chauhan - MSFT) - Explain a way to manage long start-up task without any issue.
  • Relaunching AzureDesignPatterns.com with HTML5 and Expanded Content (David Pallmann) - A useful web site that is store in blob storage...

  • Programming

    • Ninjecting MVC3 - If you never try Ninject, then try it! Go update youre pet project to make use of it.

    Miscellaneous


    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #14



    Azure


    Programming


    Ruby


    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #13

     Azure

    SQLAzure


    PowerShell


    Ruby


    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #12



    This week I try to "organize" my list a little bit.  Let me know if you prefer that way or the unsorted way like before.



    Azure

    Cloud

    Programing

    Miscellaneous

    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #11



    ~Franky

    Reading Notes #10

     HTML5 affects more than the front end and cloud computing affects more than the back end.”

    ~ Franky

    Azure Storage - Which tool should I choose to manage my Azure Storage?

    One of the first thing you need when you start doing Azure projects is a tool to manage the Azure storage. But so many are available… And they all look good!  In this post, I will try to answer to the question: Which tool should I choose to manage my Azure Storage?  Feel free to add comments or suggestions, I’m always open to better idea.


    Azure Storage Explorer
    clip_image002The first one I try was the Azure Storage Explorer. You can easily find it (you probably already know it) on Codeplex.com.
    The look of this application is gorgeous and the tool it self is very powerful.  You can manage the queues, the tables, the blob storage.  And more recently to project was update to add blob security features. And this tool is completely free.
    The only weak point I found, was that the application was freezing when I try too upload many (+1000) images in a blog storage.

    Cloudberry Explorer

    clip_image010Another I try was Cloudberry. It look like a ftp tool and only manage the blob storage, but I found it to be the more efficient.  The tool ask you for a registration, but the registration is free.  It never freeze event when I shoot him thousand of images.
    The only con is that it doesn't support queues and tables.


    AzureXplorer

    clip_image012Finally I also try AzureXplorer. This tool cost only 50$ (a free fully functional 30-days evaluation is also available) and is completely integrated to Visual Studio (that a great thing when you are a .Net developer).  It can manage queues, tables and blob storages.
    The problem was when (yes again) upload a lot of images the full Visual Studio was lock.  So I was unable to work… but other wise very nice.

    And the winner is…

    And the winner is all of them. I think that if your doing a lot of upload in the blob storage the CloudBerry is must.  Otherwise, depending if you are using Visual Studio or if you want to go with a free open source project both AzureXplorer or Azure Storage Explorer are a excellent choice.

    Again, this is not the absolute truth, this is base on my experience.  So please, if you know a good tool to manage Azure Storage add a comment.

    ~ Franky

    References:

    Reading Notes #9 (Lecture de la semaine)

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

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

    Lecture de la semaine # 8


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    ~Franky


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