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Showing posts with label IaaS. Show all posts

Reading Notes #92

CloudBroadcastSuggestion of the week

Cloud

Programming

UX

  • Magic Numbers in CSS - If you are doing web development this reading is a must. For all the other read it, you will learn important css base.
  • Stop Your Console App The Nice Way) (Mike Hadlow) - This post some best practice to do a better management of the console application. It's not because it's a console app that UX is not important.

Miscellaneous

~Frank


Reading Notes #91

cloud log

Suggestion of the week

Cloud

Integration

Programming

  • View your Kanban board - Nice post that gives more details on one of the new supported Visual Studio features. Really interesting and useful.
  • jQuery 2.0 Released  - Good news. However, don't forget that the branch 2.x is met to support new browser. For IE 6, 7, 8 the branch 1.x will continue to be supported.

System Management

Miscellaneous


~Frank


Reading Notes #82

Post-it_SnowmanSuggestion of the week
Cloud
This blog post summarizes the best practices to be used to protect Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
Integration
Programming
Miscellaneous

~Frank







Reading Notes # 72

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1358858Cloud
Integration
  • AppFabric - Frequently Asked Development Questions (Ed Price - MSFT Ed Price - MSFT Microsoft MSFT 122,146 Points 25 20 17 Recent Achievements Proposed Answerer III Gallery Contributor II Wiki Ninja View Profile) - Good questions... with their answers.
Programming
Miscellaneous

~Frank





Reading Notes #60

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[…]Read this getting started tutorial to walkthrough how you can build (in less than 5 minutes) a simple Windows 8 “Todo List” app that is cloud enabled using Windows Azure Mobile Services. Or watch this video of me showing how to do it step by step. […]

Programming
[…] 9% of all men are color blind. Use vischeck.com to check how your site or web app looks to those people. […]

Miscellaneous



Reading Notes #59

www.SonicAgile.com

Cloud

Programming

Miscellaneous
  • Three cool things to try with your old netbook - Good idea that I also try with my Asus EeePC 701. The Ubuntu Netbook is also a really good option, you will be able to watch all the movies you want, have access to your Wi-Fi network and browse Internet.
  • Your words are wasted (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post that nails the idea where all developer should have a blog, blog more and doing it on their own controlled domain.
  • Scrum in 5 Minutes - Really nice post that describe very clearly the basic concepts and roles involve in Agile. It also suggests a book for more detailed explanations and a tool AgileSonic that looks gorgeous. A post to read.
“The problem is that writing code is much more like Finding a Cure for Cancer than Building a Brick Wall.”




Reading Notes #49

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Cloud

Programming

Miscellaneous


~ Frank


Reading Notes #43

Cloud


from Wely's Cloud Journey blog


Programming

  • Need A Cloud Monkey? Netflix Unleashes Simian Army - Monkeys is the name of all those programmes or applications that are used by Netflix to watch their system. This post report that Netflix announce they will give the code as open source.
  • Outside-the-Box Pizza, Part 3: Mobility & Responsive Web Design (David Pallmann) - In this post all the CSS tricks to support the Responsive web design will be explains. The goal is to support the army of different mobile devices.
  • Why you need to learn async in .NET (weblogs.asp.net) - Nice post with a code sample that illustrate the advantage of using the async framework. Let’s the code represents “the what” of what you want to do not “the how”.
  • WCF-SQL Adapter and permissions - Well explain. I got this once, and I remember spending few minutes trying to understand this error message... It's a shame that it's not the good one that is display first...
  • Lowering the Barriers to Code Generation with T4 - If you are not already using T4 or if you think code generation is only for "big project", this post is for you. This very nice tutorial shows how to use T4 to improve the quality, the stability and the readability of your code. A must for all serious .Net developer.

    Miscellaneous


    Reading Notes #42

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    Cloud

    • MCSE is Back–and Better Than Ever!! - Important new from Microsoft this week: certifications for the cloud. This post is a good summary of this new reality.
    • An Up-Close Examination of the Microsoft RDP Vulnerability (Guest Author) - Important RDP vulnerability was fixed in the March patch. Since in Azure the remote is disabled by default and that some firewall rules protect some connections, if you use Azure you are now safe and probably you were never really in danger. But if you are using an image on AWS you probably should apply you Windows Updates...
    • Announcing the Refresh of Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs (Harish Agarwal) - The Windows Azure team listened to our feedback and new features and a lot of performance improvements in the updated version of the EAI & EDI labs.

    Programming

    […] Are people who speak at conferences speaking because they are the best, or are they the best because they are speaking…[…]
    […]The best way to learn is to teach.[…]

    Miscellaneous

    • Succeeding with Agile - Nice tip that look simple and efficient.
    • My car ships with crapware (Scott Hanselman) - Hilarious and true, why we can have a super dual-core computer in our pocket but our car come with a so crap old "computer"?
    • 5 Presentation Apps to Try - Quick list of nice tools helping us to pass through a presentation or after to share some files.
    • 12 Ways to Attack Any Challenge - Facing difficulties is good. It's mean you are challenging yourself. That you try to become better. This nice post is refreshing your memories about ways to overcome those challenges.
    • More of What You Came For (Michael Desmond) - The team of the MSDN Magazine are since ... forever trying to always offer more. This time is by giving more content (some exclusively) on their web site. Like the column Azure by Bruno Terkaly.
    • 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done (Peter Bregman) – A great book that explain a lot of little think that we could do every day to help to focus on the thing we want to accomplish. Nothing magic but it help to take better decision. Peter use a lot of personal story to explain is thoughts and that improve a lot the comprehension. It was my first experience with audio book, and I really like it. It was done by Peter Bregme himself.


    ~Frank



    Reading Notes #21


    Cloud

    The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler also allows for job scheduling and resource management, web-based job submission, parallel runtimes with support for MPI applications and WCF services and persistent state management of job queue and resource configuration.

    Programming


    Miscellaneous


    ~Franky