Reading Notes #218

Suggestion of the week

• Open Source tools to kick start your Xamarin Projects (Guy Barrete, Erik Renaud) - Awesome video where Guy and Eric show many powerful tools to get stated with our project... the good way.

Cloud

• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers - This nice post regroups good Azure storage tips, enough to make you fall in love with F# right await.
  
• How to refer an Azure Key Vault secret in an Azure Resource Manager deployment template - Nice post that shows some security best practices with ARM.
  
• Microservices in Azure (Jon Hilton) - Excellent post to get started and do you first Hello word micro-services application.

Programming

• .NET Rocks! vNext (dotnetrocks.com) - Another great show... And so happy about Glimpse.
  
• Tips for Deploying your .Net project (Gregor Suttie) - Looking for some quick suggestion from some on with experience? Here is the perfect post for that.

Data

• How Halo 5 implemented cloud scale telemetry using Azure Event Hubs (Dan Rosanova) - Inspiring post about scaling and the data platform.

Reading Notes #217

Suggestion of the week

• Building an ASP.NET 5 website using Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and Yeoman - If you are looking for a super light .Net environment, whatever you are on Windows, Linux or Apple, this is th perfect post to get started.

Cloud

• Azure IoT Hub in Public Preview - Quick intro to Azure IoT Hub leveraging the excellent AzureCon video.
  
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers - This nice post regroupes nice Azure storage type, enough to make you fall in love with F# right await.

Programming

• Version Control PowerShell Scripts with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services - This post describes a fantastic solution if you already have Visual Studio (it could also be the free community edition). But vscode could also be a nice. solution.
  
• Evolution of #CSharp (1.0 to 6.0) - an Infographic (Kunal Chowdhury) - Cool recap an infographic.
  
• Submitting your first Pull Request (David Paquette) - Nice post, that demystifies a lo o things, if Git is new for you or that open source projects.
  
• Task runners in Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen) - This post regroups many extensions to Visual Studio that will definitely speed up repetitive process.

Miscellaneous

• Visualizing Your (Real) Software Architecture (View all posts by Erik Dietrich) - This post describe a situation that too often true, and suggested a way to avoid it.
  
• When did we stop caring about memory management? - That totally right!
  
• Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable - Interesting post, how many of this Howard type did you work with?

Reading Notes #216

Cloud

• Best practices: How to handle sensitive data in Azure Resource Manager templates using Key Vault (Stephane Lapointe) - Good first post of a very promising series about Azure Key Vault.
  
• Azure Automation: Graphical and textual runbook authoring (Chris Sanders) - Nice post that shows th nice graphical interface available to edit our Azure cookbooks.
  
• New book: Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications (Kim Spilker) - Another book that goes on my to read stacks...

Programming

• What’s New in Fiddler 4.6.2 (Eric Law) - In today's world of connectivity, a tool like Fiddler is a must. This post shared the features of the last release, and what need to be done once you upgrade.
  
• 10 Visual Studio tips to improve your development productivity - This post group 10 useful article that explain ho to can customize VS to be more productive.(or at least more comfortable).

Data

• Introducing a simplified configuration experience for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines (Ninar Nuemah) - Wow, this is very convenient upgrade... Really cool.

Podcast

• .NET Rocks! vNext - Really interesting podcast episode. I think it's the clearer and more comprehensible explanation of Git I have ever eared.

Miscellaneous

• No, you can’t join my wifi network (Troy Hunt) - Just after the holidays, after a lot of people visit others to their houses... This is a scary but really interesting post to read.
  
• It’s 2016 already, how are websites still screwing up these user experiences?! (Troy Hunt) - Nice post about the not so nice reality of today's internet.
  
• Join us in congratulating MVP awardees! - Congratulations to all of you.
  
• A Project Guide to UX Design And Content Strategy - Very nice document that tells us how a team organizes their work to create a great user experience. Step by step, we pass what look like a real case.
  
• New Year, new Git release - Can an awesome tool become even more amazing? Learn how Git did it.