Cloud
- MCSE is Back–and Better Than Ever!! - Important new from Microsoft this week: certifications for the cloud. This post is a good summary of this new reality.
- An Up-Close Examination of the Microsoft RDP Vulnerability (Guest Author) - Important RDP vulnerability was fixed in the March patch. Since in Azure the remote is disabled by default and that some firewall rules protect some connections, if you use Azure you are now safe and probably you were never really in danger. But if you are using an image on AWS you probably should apply you Windows Updates...
- Announcing the Refresh of Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs (Harish Agarwal) - The Windows Azure team listened to our feedback and new features and a lot of performance improvements in the updated version of the EAI & EDI labs.
Programming
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Miscellaneous
- Succeeding with Agile - Nice tip that look simple and efficient.
- My car ships with crapware (Scott Hanselman) - Hilarious and true, why we can have a super dual-core computer in our pocket but our car come with a so crap old "computer"?
- 5 Presentation Apps to Try - Quick list of nice tools helping us to pass through a presentation or after to share some files.
- 12 Ways to Attack Any Challenge - Facing difficulties is good. It's mean you are challenging yourself. That you try to become better. This nice post is refreshing your memories about ways to overcome those challenges.
- More of What You Came For (Michael Desmond) - The team of the MSDN Magazine are since ... forever trying to always offer more. This time is by giving more content (some exclusively) on their web site. Like the column Azure by Bruno Terkaly.
- 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done (Peter Bregman) – A great book that explain a lot of little think that we could do every day to help to focus on the thing we want to accomplish. Nothing magic but it help to take better decision. Peter use a lot of personal story to explain is thoughts and that improve a lot the comprehension. It was my first experience with audio book, and I really like it. It was done by Peter Bregme himself.
~Frank
Cloud
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Programming
Miscellaneous
- I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code - Interesting, I didn't think our usual or natural sensor to estimate the complexity of something cannot be use when it comes to estimate software... but it makes senses!
- What geeks need to tell our parents about shopping online safely and securely (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post. read this post than go talk to your parent, uncle, brothers and sisters all those people that call you when they did nothing but the PC doesn't works anymore... ;)
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Cloud
- Best practices for migration to the cloud - Nice post that contain all the link you need in one place to read all the best practice and useful information on migration to the cloud.
- A Must-Have for Most Organizations (Gartner) - Learn all the benefits to have a cloud service brokered (CSB) in your cloud strategy.
- Take Your Cloud Like Your Coffee–Half and Half (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Good analogy between coffee and cloud solution. Different mixtures depending of the context.
- Windows Azure Storage Emulator or Service? - Useful tips to fix some problem/limitation when working locally with Windows Azure storage.
- How to Make the Private Cloud More Secure - Nice post that introduce some products to help maintaining the security of your cloud solution.
- A Social, Mobile, and Cloudy Modern Web Application (David Pallmann) - First of a series, this nice post present a well done application that combines HTML5, mobility, social networking and cloud computing.
- Inside SQL Azure – Self-healing, Self-governing, Massively Scalable Database service in the Cloud. (Cihan Biyikoglu) - A great presentation that explain a lot about SQL Azure.
- Microsoft Reinvents its Cloud Strategy (Martin Tantow) - Nice post comparing the new cloud positioning strategy o Microsoft with the majors players when looking for CRM
- Best practices for building Windows Azure service (Qingsong Yao) - Nice post with best practices to develop and to test. It also introduce briefly great MSTest framework.
- Protecting Windows Azure Web and Worker roles from malware (maartenba) - Not long time ago Microsoft release the Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview (EP for friends) and in this great post you will know how to install it, configure it and how to use it.
- Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview Now Available For Free Download (Elyasse_El_Yacoubi) - A vey complete post about the Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure (MEP). Everything you should know about it, and even more.
- In cloud computing moves, money isn’t everything (Barb Darrow) - Explain the result of a survey about the reason why companies are moving (or not) to the cloud.
- An Amazon Web Services primer (Matthew Braga) - To know all Amazon Web Service AWS products this post is a must.
- A Comprehensive Introduction to Cloud Computing - I did already mention is great introduction post in some Reading Notes, but at this time the author was rebuilding is blog and the article was removed. So if you didn't have the time to read it the first time, here is your chance.
- Cloud Tip #1–How to set a connection string in Web.config programmatically at runtime in Windows Azure (mbenkov) - Great tips that will save times to many developers.
- Auto scaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner) - This Cloud Cover Show Episode explain in detail the great Wasabi. Azure developer this is a must.
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Miscellaneous
~ Frank