Cloud
- Implementing 5 important principles of REST using WCF Services (Shivprasad koirala) - Good post about the REST base.
- My Application Platform Quotes (Nikosan) - List of what you will need to start with Azure high performance computing (HPC)
- The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away - The cloud sometime is hard with us, here a example: www.theshallowsbook.com
- Connecting BizTalk with a mobile app using Azure Appfabric ServiceBus Queues, REST and WCF (Magnus) - Nice implementation of the AppFabric service bus queues in a integration application.
- SQL Azure Reporting Server – Windows Azure platform (sqlblog) - First step to use the Azure Reporting Server - Creation of a server. This post is the first one of a series, more to come.
- How to integrate a BizTalk Server application with Service Bus Queues and Topics (msdn.microsoft.com) - Learn what needs to be done so you can use Azure Service bus queues with BizTalk, in this very (and i mean very) well done and detailed post.
- Connection Modes (msdn.microsoft.com) - Good post explaining the many Azure Service bus connectivity options.
- Windows Azure Best Practices: Affinity Groups (BuckWoody) - Quick tips about affinity groups.
- Completing the Trip with AppFabric Queues - Part 2 of 2 on a quick demo playing with the AppFabric queues.
- Unable to find assembly references that are compatible with the target framework ‘Silverlight,Version=v4.0, Profile=WindowsPhone71′ (wadewegner.com) - Useful tips on a very easy to have issue with NuGet
- Cloud Cover Show: Episode 66 - Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone - A nice walks through the NuGet packages: Windows Azure storage and Windows Phone.
Programming
- Software Disasters: Recovery and Prevention Strategies - Dollars spent in prevention are worth more than dollars spent in recovery.
- oData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) - UI control that support oData binding with the usual Telerik quality... nice
- Binding to oData with jQuery Grid - The Infragistics version of a grid using oData.
- Method chaining and lazy evaluation in Ruby (Jeff Kreeftmeijer) - Nice post. Give some good tips about structure.
- How To Write Plugin in jQuery (Shakeel Iqbal | 28 Nov 2011 | Unedited contribution) - Yet another tutorial about creating a jQuery plugin. What is nice in this one is that is doing by iteration, starting with an empty plugin then adding bit of code to finish with some really great.
Miscellaneous
- Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman) - A nice reminder…
- Chatty’s Dream Design Project - This is looking good as a coop pet project... It could use the last Azure social game SDK... any one?
- Repaving your PC: the easier way(maartenba) - Very smart use of chocolate and PowerShell... I will use it.