What you shouldn't have missed in the last few weeks

In September, Microsoft did so many announcements it’s difficult to keep tracks of all. This short post he just to list the most important and to give you the opportunity to watch them again or the first time.

AzureCon 2015

The AzureCon was a virtual event on September 29 that was focusing on Microsoft Azure. Many View Party around the global was watching this even rich in announcements. You can watch here the AzureCon keynotes online.
But AzureCon was not only keynotes, it was more than 50 technical sessions covering every Azure’s feature. Get the the full list on Channel9 here.

Windows 10 Devices

At the beginning of October the Windows 10 Devices was a really amazing event. Microsoft was showing us all is new devices, and they were a lot! Don’t trust me, go see by yourself on this blog post by Terry Myerson.

 

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~Frank

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Suggestion of the week

• AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center - This post summarizes all the AzureCon announcements. If you have more time, I suggest you to watch the keynotes.

Cloud

• View and analyze Azure Audit Logs in Power BI and more (Ashwin Kamath) - This post explains witch to use to get the maximum of our logs.

• Meet the new OneDrive for Business - Good post that explains all the advantages of the new OneDrive for business.

• Download Microsoft AzureCon Sept. 2015 Sessions Using PowerShell - The perfect script for all of us that want to see everything from AzureCon.

• How To Resize an AWS Volume Using The AWS Console or PowerShell (John Grover) - Great tutorial that explain how to get our self out of a difficult situation when things didn't go as planned.

• Introduction to Azure Search - | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog - This post clarifies things about what Azure Search is and what is not.

Programming

• 31 Days of Visual Studio 2015 Tricks and Treats (Steve Smith) - Very promising and interesting series, more to come...

• Kanban Updates, new Branch Policies, and more... – Sep 18 - All the details about the last VSO features release.

Databastes

• Create and Edit DocumentDB Server Side Scripts in the Azure Preview Portal (Stephen Baron) - Great tutorial that shows how to use that new functions of DocumentDB.

Miscellaneous

• Going Back to One (Alexandre Brisebois) - Organize our work to become a performer, could be easily done in Windows 10.

• Introducing Digital Triage - Interesting thoughts about how we should structure our resources to triage the priorities.

• Static Site or CMS? - (Brian Rinaldi) - Nice post that gives insights to answer one of the most frequent questions when people start a blog/website.

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Suggestion of the week

• Adding Insights and Telemetry to Logic Apps through Power BI (Jeff Hollan) - Fantastic post that explains how to integrate Logic Apps and Power BI. And for the lazy one that doesn't want to read, check the first haft of this video.

Cloud

• September update: Azure Preview Portal improvements (Leon Welicki) - The portal is changing again, and you can see how Microsoft is really listening to his users.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 101 - This video explains in only ten minutes, what is service fabric and why we should care.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 102 (Scott Hanselman) - You know our bases or you watch the 101; this post goes the code and explains how it can work.

Programming

• Battle of the Free Code Editors (Brian Rinaldi) - Nice post that compares three free, popular, and powerful code editor.

Databastes

• Easily Transform JSON Data When Importing to Azure DocumentDB (Stephen Baron) - Great post that explains powerful ways to import our data in DocumentDB.

Miscellaneous

• Going Back to One (Alexandre Brisebois) - Organize our work to become a performer, could be easily done in Windows. 10.

~Frank 

Reading Notes #187

Cloud

• Publishing an ASP.NET 5 app to Docker on Linux with Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tutorial for a cross-platform Hello word.
  
• Create a CentOS Virtual Machine Using #Azure Resource Manager (Alexandre Brisebois) - Nice deep-dive to Azure Resource manager creating a Raid0 Linux VM.
  
• Protect Mission Critial #Azure Virtual Machines from Accidental Deletion - An accident is so fast done...Thanks for the tips!
  
• Is Microsoft Changing Azure Too Much? (Paul Ballard) - Interesting thought. And you what do you think?
  
• Delphi Turns Every Car into a Connected Car with Affordable, Cloud-Based Telematics (microsoft.com) - Interesting use case about Azure, IoT.
  
• Hooking up a scheduler job to a WebJob - Nice post that explains different options when we are using Azure webjob or scheduler.

Programming

• 10 Leading HTML5 Frameworks You'll Find Hard to Miss - Your next mobile project.
  
• Using TypeScript for Visual Studio Online Extensions (Serkan Inci) - Little introduction to a useful extension.

Miscellaneous

• Making the Complex Simple - Interesting article about how to become a true leader.
  
• Atom.io for Markdown editing (Larry Franks) - This post explains how to transform the great editor Atom in an amazing markdown editor.
  
• And the Release Date for Windows 10 Is... (Paul Thurrott) - The official date is finally out!