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Of course change the general look of the blog, and I update my about page. I also add a Contact page with a form to send me comments.

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~Franky

Reading Notes #23

 

Cloud

• Implementing 5 important principles of REST using WCF Services (Shivprasad koirala) - Good post about the REST base.
  
• My Application Platform Quotes (Nikosan) - List of what you will need to start with Azure high performance computing (HPC)
  
• The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away - The cloud sometime is hard with us, here a example: www.theshallowsbook.com
  
• Connecting BizTalk with a mobile app using Azure Appfabric ServiceBus Queues, REST and WCF (Magnus) - Nice implementation of the AppFabric service bus queues in a integration application.
  
• SQL Azure Reporting Server – Windows Azure platform (sqlblog) - First step to use the Azure Reporting Server - Creation of a server. This post is the first one of a series, more to come.
  
• How to integrate a BizTalk Server application with Service Bus Queues and Topics (msdn.microsoft.com) - Learn what needs to be done so you can use Azure Service bus queues with BizTalk, in this very (and i mean very) well done and detailed post.
  
• Connection Modes (msdn.microsoft.com) - Good post explaining the many Azure Service bus connectivity options.
  
• Windows Azure Best Practices: Affinity Groups (BuckWoody) - Quick tips about affinity groups.
  
• Completing the Trip with AppFabric Queues - Part 2 of 2 on a quick demo playing with the AppFabric queues.
  
• Unable to find assembly references that are compatible with the target framework ‘Silverlight,Version=v4.0, Profile=WindowsPhone71′ (wadewegner.com) - Useful tips on a very easy to have issue with NuGet
• Cloud Cover Show: Episode 66 - Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone -  A nice walks through the NuGet packages: Windows Azure storage and Windows Phone.

Programming

• Software Disasters: Recovery and Prevention Strategies - Dollars spent in prevention are worth more than dollars spent in recovery.
• oData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) - UI control that support oData binding with the usual Telerik quality... nice
• Binding to oData with jQuery Grid - The Infragistics version of a grid using oData.
• Method chaining and lazy evaluation in Ruby (Jeff Kreeftmeijer) - Nice post. Give some good tips about structure.
• How To Write Plugin in jQuery (Shakeel Iqbal | 28 Nov 2011 | Unedited contribution) - Yet another tutorial about creating a jQuery plugin. What is nice in this one is that is doing by iteration, starting with an empty plugin then adding bit of code to finish with some really great.

Miscellaneous

• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman) - A nice reminder…
• Chatty’s Dream Design Project - This is looking good as a coop pet project... It could use the last Azure social game SDK... any one?
• Repaving your PC: the easier way(maartenba) - Very smart use of chocolate and PowerShell... I will use it.

~Franky

Reading Notes #22

Cloud

• Creating and Publishing a Web Application to Windows Azure in 15 Minutes (PubSec) - See how the last update really did boost vs2010.
• How to consume RESTful Services using jQuery and/or Javascript (BrunoTerkaly) - Nice sample/code snippet of JQuery to call a service using RESTful
• A few tips to get up and running with the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service - Save some pain, here are great tips about using AppFabric ACS.
• Sticky Azure WCF service roles (SailingRock) - Nice work around to connectivity issue when using Azure.
• Azure Service Bus Tester (Roman Kiss | 20 Nov 2011) - An amazing demo very well explain and detail about Azure Service Bus.
• Moving Channel9.msdn.com to Windows Azure - A real case: moving to the cloud. A great story.
• Securing AppFabric Service bus with ACS - Quick introduction to the new Access Control Service (ACS).

  Clemens Vasters recorded a great video describing all these capabilities in details.

• Resources to run Open Source Stacks on Windows Azure (blogs.msdn.com) - You can use many different languages with Azure (that why it's so great) here some resources for: java, apache. php. node.js  and ruby.
• Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming (laktek.com) - Five bests practices that should be in your day to day.
• What the Heck Are Document Databases? - Really interesting article, that explain not only what are NoSql database but what you can do with it and some differences between them.
  

  • MongoDB (mongodb.org)
  • CouchDB (couchdb.apache.org)
  • RavenDB (ravendb.net)

  An Alternative, Not a Replacement, for Relational Databases

• Federation Metadata in SQL Azure Part 1 – Federations and Federation Members (Cihan Biyikoglu - SQL Azure) - Great post to start to demystify where is the metadata when using federation with Azure Sql. sql code.
• Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan - MSFT) – Links on other nice post about communication in Azure. 

  Only role instances that are part of the same Windows Azure application can communicate with each other

• New Azure SDK, JLint, TFS, and guest host Martin Woodward - Nice podcast that review the actuality
• Partitions in Windows Azure Table - Good starting point to learn the basic and some best practices about partitioning.
• BlobShare Sample: ACS-Protected File Sharing (Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT) - Nice complement to the Cover Cloud Show (episode 63). This post explain how the access control service works with BlobShare by following a scenario.
• Implementing 5 important principles of REST using WCF Services (Shivprasad koirala) - Good post about the REST base.

Programming

• Ajax Control Toolkit November 2011 Release - Nice tooltips balloon and featured tabs are presented in this post.
• Ruby Golf - This post give some tricks to shortened your code, and introduce a competition... Dare you?
• Manage Project Libraries with NuGet - Everything you should know (and more) about the great NuGet
• Devenez un ninja avec Ruby #1 (SANCHEZ Benjamin) - Quick tips how to play with operators || and &&. In French.
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 - VS2010 is a great tools, this post will show some great feature. May be like me one that you didn't know about!
• Introducing gem_git: tiny tools for working with gems’ code via Git (omgbloglol) - Really nice idea.

Miscellaneous

• Nico and Rory’s Stories (Chatty DM) - This is how we all should do. Bravo Chatty!
• 5 Unusual Ways to Become a Better Speaker (Jeff Haden) - How to level up your “preacher” skill

~Franky