Cloud
- Azure: New Marketplace, Network Improvements, New Batch Service, Automation Service, more - A great package of new features was announced last week, learn more about them in this post.
- Building myEcho - A real startup running on Azure - Great video about how Azure is really used in a real product. A must to see.
- Azure Table Storage little gem – InsertOrMerge (Boris Lipschitz) - An interesting post that explores the just as interesting method InsertOrMerge of the Azure storage.
- #Azure Table Storage - Using StartsWith to Filter on RowKeys - Nice post that explains a good practice to get quickly what we are querying for, and while keeping our code clean.
Programming
- Building a working Robot controlled by a C#, an iPhone, and Monkey.Robotics (Scott Hanselman) - Really exiting stuff...
- ASP.NET MVC 5.1 New Features -- Visual Studio Magazine (Eric Vogel) - Nice post that introduces a new feature of Asp.net MVC 5 and shows how easy and powerful it becomes.
Miscellaneous
- Ghost Onboarding - How We Increased Conversion by Over 1,000% - This post is a nice proof that by knowing the impact of our product features we can achieve great things.
- Microsoft Office coming to Android in early November (Alex Cobb) - This is a good news, my tablet will become a real on the road device... until I go for a surface 3...
- 10 email security fundamentals for everyday people - This post gives all the best practices to stay out of trouble...