Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

Is that Really Good Quality Code You’re Writing? - Always good to have our memory refreshed.

Announcing the release of Azure Mobile Apps Node SDK v3.0.0 (Adrian Hall) - Nice upgrade that includes a low of features. Be aware of the breaking changes.
Data Factory supports multiple web service inputs for Azure ML Batch Execution (Harish Kumar Agarwal) - Cool! Simple AND powerful.
Refreshing user logins in App Service Mobile Apps (Mimi Xu) - Great news, no more painful and complicated process, in the code App

Build cloud apps at warp speed (James Staten) - Awesome tools, I'm very curious to see what people will create with those.
NGINX for ASP.NET Core In-Depth - Interesting post that explains this very popular web server. It also very easy to use with docker.
Self-contained .NET Core Applications - Great post that clarifies little things, but yeah... The devil is in the details!

Trying out the “standard” and “enterprise” templates in Azure Logic Apps (Richard Seroter) - Another excellent post from Seroter who shows us a quick simple logic app, and also a more "complex" one using the new integration account.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Functions Within Azure’s IoT Hub - Great tutorial to build a scalable solution.
Azure Active Directory Labs Series – Creating an AD Forest (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is a step by step lab. You will create everything you need without trouble.
Azure Portal + Azure AD Management in Public Preview - Really happy to see new tools available (finally) to manage Active directory in the Azure portal.
Visual Studio 2015 update for Logic Apps (Jon Fancey) - Nice update to the on-premise tool. Have you tried it yet?

Entity Framework Pitfalls: Null Semantics - This post explains important gotchas, in one of the most popular ORM frameworks.
Getting Started with YAML in Node.js using js-yaml (Dave Johnson) - Interesting post, I've been using YAML for few years now. However, it's true that when I did some work with Node.js I switched to json... Next time then...
New book: Begin to Code with C# (Kim Spilker) - C# is a very popular and powerful language, I'm happy to see new books to bring more people aboard.

Azure DocumentDB powers the modern marketing intelligence platform (Aravind Ramachandran) - This post is a great story about a real-life scenario where DocumentDB was selected as NoSQL solution and gives an overview of his structure.

Want to know if you've been hacked? Troy Hunt has all the details - Excellent article, security breach, servers hack are not only in movies... Learn more about Troy Hunt who shares them with us.
Why Programmers Should Track Their Time (Even if They Don't Charge Hourly) - It's so painful but so true.

Building Your First Bot using Microsoft Bot Framework - Nice tutorial to get started with the bot framework... An yes, you should care, because bots are the new apps.
How to use Power BI Embedded with AspNetCore - Oh yeah! Quick and simple.
StrathWeb. A free flowing web tech monologue. - Nice post that explains different paths (good and bad) to declare a controller in Asp.Net Core and explains why.

Connect to Azure SQL Database V12 via Redirection (Kun Cheng) - Very interesting post about how to achieve great performance with our Azure solution.
Improved Automatic Tuning boosts your Azure SQL Database performance (Vladimir Ivanovic) - Definitely something to try at the minimum... It looks fantastic.

Who am I really logged in as on Visual Studio Team Services? (Willy-P. Schaub) - Nice tips... That will solve so many questions.
You might be a creative if … (docjamesw@gmail.com) - A post to read in the morning. It's like a little pill of energy.
You’re doing it wrong: Demos (Gil Zilberfeld) - Nice quick post that helps us to definitely pick a side when the question "Should we demo that?" popped.