Reading Notes 2013-03-04

You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis' bloggers interest during the week ending on March, 3rd.

Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw) – Nice tool that provides a lots of useful features.
Detecting Expired PKI Certificates (Wade) – Detail on the disruption of service for Windows Azure.
Announcing AWS OpsWorks – Wow another release this week! This time it's some diagnostics beta tools.
Developer Tools — Including Github, Zencoder, AWS (Natasha Lomas) – Great news for young start-ups companies: Starter Pack is back with a second edition.
Glass Half Empty: Understanding Cloud Computing SLAs (David Pallmann) – This post demystifies the 9s in the SLA and attaches them to more real value.
Windows Azure Store: The Services You Need, Where You Need Them (Himanshu Singh) – Nice list of Azure third party and data provider available right now on the Windows Azure Store.
New Add-ons in the Windows Azure Store – 4 very promising new add-ons to Azure and I would suggest also New Relic.
Practical Azure #13: Windows Azure Queue Storage – Nice overview video. All the features are well explained.
Why am I Getting so Many Deadlocks From Windows Azure SQL Database? (alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com) – Really great post that explains every detail of the problem and of its solution, even for EF.

DefinitelyTyped TypeScript definitions now on NuGet (Jason Jarrett) – Typescript is really powerful and easy to use. And these days it’s even easier to use with all those new DefinitelyTyped package for NuGet.
Polymorphism: Part 1 (John Teague) – Great tutorial that explains an important concept in programmation.
jQuery Tutorial – Getting Started: Basics & Selectors (James Bruce) – A lot of people are using jQuery this day, put do you use it efficiently? This post brings some 101 best practices and is quick to read…
Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development (Frederic Lardinois) – Nice post that shows who quick the HTML5 is adopted by developers.
Ruby 2.0.0-p0 is released – Good news. Here is an overview of the new features in this new release.
Learning Center – Wow, I just discover this web site, and I thought to share it because it's an incredible source of information well-structured and clear.
jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Released – New release of jQuery Mobile the library to use for a Responsive Web Design (RWD) or for a mobile first approach.
Is Access to Big Data Limited to Big Players? (Saroj Kar) – This post demystifies the idea of big data equal big application. Nice reading.

What’s new in BizTalk360 v6.0? (Saravana Kumar) – Biztalk360 is old his promises by releasing a new version after 4-5 month. This post list what the changes.

What Recruiters Want To See On Your LinkedIn Profile (Levo League Jaime Petkanics) – Nice post to help doing a quick check up of your LinkedIn profile.
Being a Remote Worker Sucks – Long Live the Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman) – Interesting post that highlight the challenge of working remote and how to define them.
Want To Be Taken Seriously? Become a Better Writer – Delete
What does "Future Perfect English" mean? (Lynda Hurcomb) – Indeed! Learning another language is not as easy as saying hello, but much more rewarding.
How to make files searchable in Google Drive – Ah! Simple AND useful.
The Key to Being On Time – I don’t know for you but that his example look likes to have been taken from my life.
Evernote resets user passwords after being hit by “coordinated” hack (Nathan Mattise) – Learn more about the Evernote attach and what are the "risk."
Focus Your To-Do List – It's so true and the solution is so simple, but not that easy to do.

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