Reading Notes #19

 Cloud

• How to Detect If You Are Connected To A Federation Root (Herve Roggero) - Will be useful when federation will come out.
• Mixpanel Engineering - The cloud is not for all business, here the Mixpanel’s story .
• Unable to connect to one(or few) of the Windows Azure role instnaces using remote desktop (RDP) option - Nice tips.
• Enabling Support for 32-bit IIS Applications in Windows Azure - Perfect! Simple to do and simple to use.
• Article: Introducing Queues and Topics in Azure Service Bus - A lot of new exiting stuff for the middleware and integration.
• Free Databases in the Window Azure Marketplace - Nice place to start playing with oData and/or the Marketplace
• Windows Azure PowerShell Extensions - I look forward to see those extensions...

  PowerShell is a very powerful tool for your developer tool belt,

  For an overview of the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets, watch this video

• Windows Azure, Fiddler and netmf - Nice to know. since it's not done by default.
• 10 Predictions About Cloud Computing - This is a good question. What will became the cloud in a long-term? Good post.
• SQL Azure PowerShell for Developers on the Run! - This is a most. A really sharp idea.

  “Quickly create firewall rules for where ever you are”

• Roger Doherty's SQL Server Evangelism Blog - Great new labs for migration. reporting. sync and federation. really good update. More info about the Data-tier Application Framework or DAC Fx.
• Windows Azure Traffic Manager - I know exactly in witch project i could use this...
• Reading configuration entries using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager class in a Windows Azure Application - A well done 101 about read config in Azure project.
• 10 Enterprise Cloud Storage Options - A 10 list of cloud storage option... but no syng of Google or Azure?
• Deadlettering in Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging - A great introduction to the message architecture and how to use it with the new Azure AppFabric coming in.

  “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric”, a free e-book on Azure AppFabric development. Available for download here.

  The Enterprise Integration Patterns website provides a description of the Dead Letter Channel pattern here.

• CloudCover Show: Episode 64 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows Phone Apps – Wade explain all the new stuff for Windows Phone apps by using composable NuGet packages with Windows Azure.
  
• Using Windows Azure Service Bus Messaging (Roman Kiss) – Everything you should know about Azure service bus, write inn one amazing post.

 

Miscellaneous

• Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table - Trying to but together something append 2 weeks ago on Twitter... nah forget it. but see how is it possible on Google +

~Franky

Reading Notes #18

Cloud

• Windows Azure: Startup task or OnStart(), which to choose? (Avkash Chauhan - MSFT) - Know the difference between starup task and onStart()
• Can Cloud Computing Reduce IT Cost Complexities?
• Packaging an Executable as a Windows Azure Application From the Command Line – Quick way using programEntryPoint of worker role
• New Article: How To Integrate a BizTalk Server Application with Service Bus Queues and Topics - This is looking promising, need to read the full article.
• Four key reasons to include cloud computing in your business strategy - To help some client to find if the cloud is good from them
• Cloud Cover Show: Episode 62 - Marketplace with Christian Liensberger – Great info about Marketplace.
• Cloud Cover Show: Episode 63 - Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure – Really nice introduction of the BlobShare. 
• Six Reasons to Use Cloud Services for Small Business - Another list of arguments of why you should go in the cloud

Programming

• Bodega Sale Blog - A kind of American idol for developer... not a bad idea.
• Engine Yard Platform-as-a-Service – Difference between concurrency and parallelism by type of ruby
• Sandro Pereira BizTalk Blog - When an image IS thousand words
• Fire and Ice: David Pallmann's Web and Cloud Blog: Adventures in HTML5: Bouncy Bar Chart (David Pallmann) - If you're looking for a nice way to learn HTML5 then this how-to make a htmk5 version of Jelly bars is perfect for you.

Miscellaneous

• An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman) - Understand why you should go with a e Reader
• I know apps - Interesting point. Next time keep that in mind.

~Franky

Reading Notes #17

Cloud

• Announcing Improved In-place Updates (DrewMcDaniel) - A must to read to any Azure developer. this will improve the speed and lower the friction...
• Windows Azure In-place Upgrades (Year of Azure – Week16) (brentdacodemonkey) - Really interesting. A recap of where we where and where we are going. continue with the post.
• Questions About the Cloud? Learn from Windows Azure Partners And Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud  (blogs.msdn.com) - True stories. perfect to finish convincing someone to move to the cloud (is the cloud is a solution)
• Editing a Local Windows Azure Project with the Emulator Running (Nathan Totten)- Great news... Debugging will be lot less painful.
• Dark Side of the Cloud (Andy Singleton) - Its not always as perfect as it look. Some time the cloud is not the best solution.
• SQL Azure Federations: Building Scalable, Elastic, and Multi-tenant Database Solutions - To start learning about SQL Azure federations this is a good post. a lot of details and links
• Simple Database Migration to SQL Azure (David Pallmann) - Well explain, well packaged this very frequent scenario.
• Windows Azure VM downtime due to Host and Guest OS update and how to manage it in multi-instance Windows Azure Application (Avkash Chauhan - MSFT) - Explain different scenarios possible when Azure is doing an update.
• What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train? (Randy Bias) - Great post exposing the Amazon web service AWS secret.
• Microsoft Azure: B for effort, less for execution (Barb Darrow) - Very nice post where the author talk about where Azure is compare with is competitor.
• The Microsoft Private Cloud: A Technology Overview – Perfect post to start learning on private cloud, or should I say IaaS?
• Implementing Windows Azure Retry Logic (DavidAiken) – AzureSQL and Service Bus don't implement the retry. To have a good idea u cant use the framework explain in this post

Programming

• What Ruby’s ||= (Double Pipe / Or Equals) Really Does - Explain how really this particular operator works.
• Introducing the OData Library (dpblogs) - This post explain the new feature present in the new October CTP of oData.
• Cutting Edge - Objects and the Art of Data Modeling (Dino Esposito) - Good article, and by the side explain some EF stuff. Explain how to use the active record pattern and Domain Model Pattern with EF.

~Franky