Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

Thinking About Strings, Quotes, Tokens, And Tildes In Less CSS - Less CSS seams really interesting. Next web projects, I seriously think use it.

Lessons Learned – On #Azure, Log Everything!s (Alexandre Briseboi) - Great post about how we should use the Event Trace Windows (ETW) to do our logs.
Using Time-based Partition Keys in #Azure Table Storage (Alexandre Briseboi) - Nice tips about how saving our logs in Azure.
How to get notifications from a Windows Azure website - Wow, this is truly amazing and really easy to do.

How to connect your Windows Phone 8 & 8.1 app to Yammer - Nice short tutorial to learn how connect Windows Phone (wp) apps to Yammer.
PowerShell Tools - v0.8.0 - Now with REPL! - Time to get or update this great add-ons in our Visual Studio.
Thinktecture.IdentityManager as a replacement for the ASP.NET WebSite Administration tool (Scott Hanselman) - This post introduces a great project to manage our memberships in our Asp.Net projects through a nice interface.

Windows First: A New Strategy for Mobile Development and Beyond - Programming multi platform application is becoming much easier. This post explains some of your options.

The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™ Starts to Take Shape (The Open Group Blog) - This post talks about an interesting white paper. What’s good in it and why we should read it. This new 3.0 platform look very promising.

How to use an Xbox One controller on your Windows PC (Scott Hanselman) - Really.?! That simple? That’s great!
Windows Live Writer going Open Source? - This post explains why our help is needed in order to give a future to Windows Live Writer.

Automate Backups using PowerShell - Great post that explains how to do backups, but also shows how powerful is PS scripts.
How To Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Await and Async – Visual Studio Magazine (Peter Vogel) - Good tutorial that explains clearly how to use Async in a Windows Form context.
How to connect your Windows Phone 8 & 8.1 app to Yammer - Nice short tutorial to learn how connect Windows Phone (wp) apps to Yammer.

Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman) - Useful post to refresh our memory. I mean the memory in our head… and gain disk space in your PC.
Introducing OneNote Clipper for Chrome and Springpad to OneNote migration tool (blogs.office.com) - Since a year now, I’m a big user of OneNote. Why only one year? Because, I never try it before. Since I started, I just use it more and more… I’m really happy about the new chrome extension.

Microsoft Azure and Open Source Power Grid Computing - A nice article about an integration solution using JavaScript (with different components) and the cloud.
How do you build features on #Azure? - Nice post that describes a real job situation and a really good team spirit.
AppVeyor - A good continuous integration system is a joy to behold - (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful post that gives us a taste of what VenyorApp is capable of.

Managing NuGet packages dependencies with the Package Visualizer tool (Pascal Laurin) - Wow what a useful tool. I just have a very painful moment upgrading an application. Using this tool could have saved me a lot of troubles. Looking forward to see the other tools that his talking about.
Comparing LINQ with Stored Procedure - Quick tips to help us to decide if we pick linq or sproc when starting a new project.

What fuels your development efforts? - Hey, it looks like you just level up brother and got +1 of wisdom…

Note: Less reading this week, I spent some time re-installing my PC. Thanks to boxstarter.org, part of it was really easy.

~Frank