Reading Notes 2012-05-21
You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis' bloggers interest during the week ending on May, 21th.
Cloud
- Is AWS or Windows Azure the Right Choice? It’s Not That Easy. – Really good question that compares AWS with Azure.
- Downloading Windows Azure Publish Settings (Subscription Configuration) file (Avkash Chauhan – MSFT) – Time saver quick tips to retrieve Azure Publish settings in one click.
- Avoiding cloud lock-in – Nice post that explains why it is important keep our application loosely couple. Or if we don't, to know what we do.
- Corporate Filesharing with Security and Control – This is the perfect alternative for a super private "DropBox" and it is true that it make full of sense in a corporate perspective.
- WordPress on S3: run a beautiful website on Amazon S3 cloud storage (Artem Livshits) – Great initiative! This is a perfect example of a application that takes the advantage of the cloud safe cheap and that will grow with your need.
- Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Summary (Gaurav) – Very long and exhaustive comparison between those 2 services. I didn't even know some features… Nice post.
- Episode 80 – Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync Preview (Channel 9) (Nick Harris Nathan Totten) – Really nice episode. I try the Azure Data Sync in one of my project (I should post something about it…) it is a very promising tool.
- Maarten Balliauw {blog} (maartenba) – Nice post about the changes that append now because of the cloud computing.
- Why You Need Compuware for Application Performance Monitoring – This looks like a very useful tool.
- Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part I (Gaurav) – Amazing post that covers ALL features of both Windows and Amazon cloud service. This is the part 1 of a series and it focus on containers and buckets.
- CloudTip #13-What do you need to know to get started? (mbenkov) – Great post that presents all 9 screencasts of soup of nuts. If you like watching video to quickly get started, you will like this one.
- Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part II (Gaurav) – Second part of a series, this one compares Azures blob storage to Amazon Simple storage. It covers all details even the different methods to upload and download files.
- Cloud Ninja Metering Block – Really promising project that provides tools to measure a multi-tenants Azure solution. More to come.
- Windows Azure Service Bus EAI Doesn’t Support Multicast Messaging. Should It? – The Azure service bus EAI is still at a hurly stage right now, but Seroter is highlighting a good point… It should.
- An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 2) – Really nice post part 2 of 2, this introduction post is focusing on available services in Windows Azure.
- Scott Guthrie on Cloud-Powered Revolutions (scottgu, Jonathan Rozenblit) – Really nice (and funny) introduction of Azure by the great Scott Gu. (1h video)
Programming
- An Introduction to NuGet – Nice post that explains quickly what is NuGet and which tools are available.
- Why I Hate Unit Testing – What a nightmare! I'm not sure that this post will help the undecided to join the unit testing but this JusMock tool deserved a look.
"This is easy to do with Telerik JustMock. I wrote about using JustMock to get you started in From Legacy to Dependency Injection."
"Steve Forte and Joel Semeniuk have a great presentation on this called The Agile Buffet Table."
- Automating Visual Studio 2010 builds and deployments with Nant.Builder (Iain Hunter) – Really interesting series. The steps are simple and well explained. In the next one deploy to Azure…
Miscellaneous
- A Super-Efficient Email Process (Peter) – Explain a simple method to be more productive and efficient with e-mail management.
- the Continuous Client (Joshua Topolsky) – So true, I'm looking for a continuous Twitter client for a long time now. I don't understand why this isn't in all application. Congratulation to Kindle for this! You can start reading on one device and continue to another one without effort.
- 9 Steps to Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog (Guest Blogger) – Having a blog is a lot of work. Here are 9 tips to keep you inspired and proliferates.
- 5 Things to Ask Your Cloud Backup Services Provider – I'm a Mozy user and really happy with it. Of course this post is also a sales pitch but the questions are the good one and should be considered when selecting your backup solution. When did you do your last backup?
- 5 Steps To Choosing The Right Challenges (Brendon Burchard) – Nice post that gives good tips to identify good challenges.
These posts are from François Boucher and are also on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2012/05/reading-notes-47.html
