Suggestion of the week
- Azure: SQL Databases, API Management, Media Services, Websites, Role Based Access Control and More - Amazing new features that j4ust arrives in Azure!
- TIP: Lazy Code Snippets in Visual Studio (Jonathan Rozenblit) - OMG this post just makes my day!
Cloud
- How Azure Mobile Services enable your Cloud First Mobile First World (AdarshaDatta) - Nice post to get started on Azure Mobile Services.
- Automating Integration Testing with Microsoft Azure - Great post that explains how to use Web Plaform Installer to leverage our unit tests.
- How to host a ClickOnce deployment in Azure Blob Storage - This post is a nice crossover with ClicOnce and Azure, it's explained how to prepare our deployment to do it.
- Troy Hunt: 10 things I learned about rapidly scaling websites with Azure (Troy Hunt) - Another great post about scaling in Azure; how much it cost, how to manage it, etc....
Programming
- Integrating OneDrive into Your Windows Store Apps - Excellent post that gets us started with the Live SDK, so we can add One Drive capabilities to all our applications.
- Revisiting - how to make your EF queries testable (tilovell09) - Interesting post about testing our EF query.
- Automatically strong name signing NuGet packages (Maarten Balliauw) - Who never needed to fight to include an unsigned DLL to a project?! Here is nice to that will help to do it.
- 5 skills every programmer needs in 2014 - This post is a good place to start if we are looking to learn a new language.
- Git: It’s Just Data! - This post shows us Git from a database point of view. Julie also gives really good reference for tool and book.
- Choosing a JavaScript Framework with Craig McKeachie - Really interesting episode talking on key features of your projects or code that you like to pick a Javascript framework.
Databes
- What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Client side (Ayende Rahien) - This post explains the major improuvment the the last RavenDB release.
Miscellaneous
- Upgrade to BlogEngine.NET 3.1 (rtur.net) - Time to upgrade your blog engine.
- Lineup of Windows books and ebooks (Kim Spilker) - Nice windows books list.
- How do you deal with anxiety when Live Coding in Technical Interviews? (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tips, a post to share.
- Authoring Markdown - What, Why, How - Interesting post to introduce markdown.