Cloud
- How to Assess Costs of using Windows Azure for your Applications (Himanshu Singh) - Quick post about a windows paper that provide all the information on Azure usual monthly charges.
Check out the paper.
- Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows (Maarten Balliauw) - M. Balliauw is asking a good question, that I ears often: Why should I do this?
- Windows Azure Visio Shapes - Yahooooo! I never enough Visio shape... Thanks Buck Woody!
- Service Bus for Windows server, the new features - Good post that introduces the new features of the service Bus and explains them quickly.
- Cloud Cover – Episode 84 - Windows Azure Storage Updates and a Preview of the Client Storage Library vNext - As usual nice video (shorter than last time ;) ). It reviews the new features available in Azure Storage, and show a preview of the Azure Storage libraries that will be release soon.
- ASP.NET Web API and Azure Blob Storage (Yao) - Super tutorial that show step by step how to manage your Azure Blob Storage by code, by doing a nice helper class.
- The 5 thing to immediately grab from EF Open Source - Good post that point out some place where you can see good code sample.
- When do you need a 3-tier architecture? - Good question! And this post is trying to answer it.
- Building an Offline HTML5 Application - Great tutorial about a well-structured HTML5 application that will also works offline.
- Entity Framework 5 and 6 Roadmap - The list of interesting features of the EF5 and some that are planned for the version 6.
- Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points - Nice post that summarize how to use some keys counters in order to have a better estimation of the project delivery date.
- CloudSurvey (Nathan Totten) - Nice work. A great sample to see how things are done.
- WCF - Top 10 Interview Questions (Imran Abdul Ghani) - Excellent post and excellent revision of what is WCF. Short and clear.
- Exterminating Common jQuery Bugs (Elijah Manor) - Wow what a great video. It goes through all most frequent mistake we make, explain why it doesn't works and fix it. Take a look at the tool he is using. An open source (soon) presentation framework. Very nice!
- 10 Application Performance Tuning Tips - Nice tips, simple and efficient.
- So you want to contribute to EF? Part 1: Introduction (Arthur Vickers) - Excellent series not only to kwon more about how to contribute with the Entity framework (EF) but with any kind of open source project.
- 5 Ways to Think Wisely in Development (Dimitrios Kalogirou) - Nice post that expose 5 ways to be a wiser developer.
- Sitting is Making You Fat and Killing You - Nice warning post that explains why say sit for a long period is bad and gives some tips to improve our comfort.
- Who Are You Really Mad At? (Peter) - This is about a life lesson: Pause. And like in the post you will be reward.
- Time to stop reusing your passwords - Nice reminder of the reason why we shouldn't reuse our e-mail.
- Get The Most Out of Your Mornings - Nice post that explain how to you could use your mornings to add 280 hours in your year.
- Time Management Tips #3 - Three Wins for the Week (JD Meier) - Simple tips from the book Getting Results the Agile Way that will help you to have a better week.
- 10 classic mistakes that plague software development projects (Justin James) - Nice post that make me smiling. I challenge you to pass through the list without thinking: oh yeah that's so true...
- True Secret to Success (It's Not What You Think) (Geoffrey James) - Suggest a very simple mental exercise to make your day more positive.
- I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. (Kyle Wiens) - I agree the grammar is really important, even if I’m not good as I want to be.
- 3 Interview Questions That Reveal Everything (Jeff Haden) - Nice post. I like the questions it's true that you should learn a lot from them even if the candidate is not "verbose".
~ Frank