The first ever Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference

Did you eared about that great free event that Microsoft and the MVPs are putting on in May? On the 14th and 15th (yes two days!), join Microsoft MVPs from the Americas’ region as they share their knowledge and real-world expertise during a free event, the MVP Virtual Conference.

by MVPs, for everyone

 

Gigantic event

The MVP Virtual Conference will showcase 95 sessions of content for IT Pros, Developers and Consumer experts designed to help you navigate life in a mobile-first, cloud-first world.  Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Developer Platform, Steve Guggenheimer, will be on hand to deliver the opening Key Note Address.
 

Still not sure if you will found what you are looking for?

The conference will have 5 tracks:

• IT Pro English
• Dev English
• Consumer English
• Portuguese mixed sessions
• Spanish mixed sessions

There is something for everyone! Learn from the best and brightest MVPs in the tech world today and develop some great skills!

Join Me!

Be sure to register quickly to hold your spot and tell your friends & colleagues.


 
 
 


The conference will be widely covered on social media, you can join the conversation by following @MVPAward and using the hashtag #MVPvConf.

Reading Notes #182

Suggestion of the week

• Orchestrating massive parallelisation of Azure WebJobs for fun and profit (Troy Hunt) - An awesome post. I really like those post where we learn step by step what has been tried and failed, and how to move from point A to Z.

Cloud

• Azure Mobile Services and APIs – RESTful and Custom (Adarsha Datta) - Nice tutorial about how to use Azure service Api and customizes it.
• How Azure Web Apps Hosts an ASP.NET 5 Application (tugberkugurlu.com) - Interesting post th0at shows how aspnet works with Azure under the hood.
  
• NoSQL database service Azure DocumentDB now Generally Available (John Macintyre) - Know everything you need to get started on DocumetDB, now in GA. Nice free import tool was also released.

released the DocumentDB Data Migration tool, an open source solution that imports data from a variety of sources, including JSON files, CSV files, SQL Server, MongoDB and existing DocumentDB collections.

• Mostly Cloudy - April 14th - This post is a nice overview of the Azure actuality for April.
  
• Think #Microservices - Very interesting post that explains why microservices could be so promising.

Programming

• How to Update a Forked Repository (blog.falafel.com) - Nice little how to for Github and sourcetree.
  
• Understanding Internationalization in ASP.NET MVC (About the Author) - Nice tutorial that explains the difference between: Internationalization, localisation, globalisation and how to use them to build a nice app.net website.
  
• New book: Node.js for .NET Developers (KimSpilker Kim Spilker) - Today nodejs is an unavoidable language, this book explains how it works from a c# point of view.

Miscellaneous

• Free ebook: Managing Agile Open-Source Software Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Online (KimSpilker Kim Spilker) - A free book, that's always welcome.
  
• Avoiding Common Executive DevOps Mistakes (Ericka Chickowski) - Interesting post about common mistakes when people are trying to do agile methodology.
  
• Microsoft BUILD Announces #BuildTour (MVP Award Program) - Great news!
  
• Dropbox can now open documents straight into Microsoft Office Online (Dave Yin) - Now that what I call a reel int0egration, and a great feature!

~Frank B.

Reading Notes #181

Suggestion of the week

• MVP Virtual Conference - A date to reserve, this conference look amazing.

Cloud

• The Kudu Debug Console, Azure Websites best kept secret (Jonathan Rozenblit) - This post is a nice introduction to a very useful debugging tool: Kudu.
  
• Node.js and Visual Studio: From Zero to a Cloud Foundry Deployment in 2 Minutes (Richard Seroter) - This great post shows us how to deploy a node.js app as in the same amount of time it took us to read the post.
  
• Azure API App and Logic App. In depth look into Hybrid Connector. Marriage between cloud and on-premise (Saravana Kumar) - Great tutorial / demo of an Azure logic app, the BizTalk way.
  
• First Look at Azure API Apps and Logic Apps (Ricardo Torre) - Great post that explains the similitude and difference between BizTalk and the new Azure Logic App.
  
• Introducing Azure Resource Explorer for the Azure Resource Management APIs (Scott Hanselman) - This project look great! It's a good opportunity to know more about what is happening under the hood. I'm looking forward to knowing more...
  
• Fail fast when the cloud fails you (Troy Hunt) - Very interesting true story about how to investigate an unpredictable problem involving the cloud.
  
• How we deploy Visual Studio Online using Release Management (Buck Hodges) - Interesting post that relates a reel d0eployment process.

Programming

• Node.js development with Visual Studio - Quick post to get stated with the new Node.js tool in Visual Studio.
  
• How to wait for DOM elements to show up in modern browsers - This post that explains how we should wait for an element in modern browser using javascript.
  
• How to Update a Forked Repository (blog.falafel.com) - Nice little howto for Github and Sourcetree.

Miscellaneous

• Making the Complex Simple - Not sure how to "classify" this post, is it a top list of the best bad practices, or literally "du bonbon"? A post to read, and relax.