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Reading Notes #169

 

Happy New Year!

 

Suggestion of the week

• Magic Strings – No More! - Great post that explains different ways to manage string in our code. Clear and efficient.

Cloud

• The cloud saves the day and other non-myths (Brian Heckert) - Nice post that discusses some myths mentions in Gartner's presentation about the cloud.

• Automating Azure on your CI server using a Service Principal - Great tutorial that explains how to use Active Directory (AD) to access resources in Azure.

• Scaling #Azure Cloud Services Up and Down Like Clockwork (Alexandre Brisebois) - Really interesting post that explains how scaling up & out and down &in can mean huge saving in our pockets.

Programming

• Could not load file or assembly… NuGet Assembly Redirects (blog.maartenballiauw.be) - Nice clever tricks to avoid losing time.

• UI Considerations When Using Asynchronous Methods (Jeremy) - Good tutorial that explains some key features we must adapt in the UI when making our code async.

Miscellaneous

• 4 Simple Tricks to Help Make Your Content Stand Out (AJ Agrawal) - This post provides a nice list of tools to improve our content.

• Why You Should Say Goodbye to Work-Life Balance in 2015 (Aaron O'Hearn) - Interesting thoughts.

• The Key to Increased Productivity? Stop Working (Justin Bariso) - This post suggests simple thins to do to improve our productivity. Perfect to start the new year...

• XML Sitemaps for the Ghost Blogging Platform - Time to update our Ghost blogs...

~Frank Boucher

Reading Notes #168

Suggestion of the week

• Lift and Shift of a Console Appication to Microsoft #Azure - Great post that explains all the steps required to deploy a console app to Azure.

Cloud

• Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites (David Wesst) - If you prefer starting from the source code to deploy your Ghost blog, some steps could be less obvious. This post, the first of a series, will guide you through the deployment.
  
• Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 4 (David Wesst) - Bonus post in the 3 part series, this is a useful tips to set https on an Azure web site, very clear.

• Deux cas d’exception où l’infonuagique n’aide pas (Pour consulter tous les articles de André Giroux →) - Nice post that explains two reel cases were going was not a good option.

Programming

• Clean Code – Is my code always readable? - A simple but very efficient way to think when we a writing or re-factoring our code. I like it.

• Grunt and Gulp Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 (Google+) - Quick tips to get intellisense in javascript files.

• Could not load file or assembly… NuGet Assembly Redirects (blog.maartenballiauw.be) - Nice clever tricks to avoid losing time.

Miscellaneous

• 11 Tools We Use at Ghost for Distributed Teams & Digital Nomads - Many very nice tools. I fall in love with Slack and coffitivity.

See you in 2015!


~Frank B