Reading Notes 2013-02-04
Cloud
- Windows Azure VM Development: Part 1 (Bryan Bolling) – Great post about how to get started working with a VM in Azure. First post of a promising series.
- YouTrack — Agile Issue & Project Tracker – Great tutorial that explains how to install YouTrack in an Azure VM from A to Z to enjoy Agile project tracking.
- Access SQL Azure Data Using Java Script (Angshuman Nayak) – Interesting exercises. It could be used in a local web page.
- Announcing Amazon Elastic Transcoder – Amazon is replying to the Windows Azure Media Services with the release last week of a similar service.
- Startup Accelerator for Windows Azure: Demo Day (Scott Gu) – Exciting program for start-ups. See what you missed and how you could jump-in.
- Maarten Balliauw {blog} (Maarten Balliauw) – Get a tutorial for continuous development. I'm looking forward to see more tools/framework from .Net that will be supported.
- Using Fiddler to decipher Windows Azure PowerShell or REST API HTTPS traffic (Avkash Chauhan) – Great use of PowerShell for deployment.
- 39 design patterns to boost your cloud architecture (Joe McKendrick) – Post to bookmark, it also contains SOA references.
- “Key not valid for use in specified state” exception when working with the Access Control Service – Great tutorial/workaround to manage issues with the certificate when deploying with Azure.
- Backup TO DISK, TAPE and now URL – Backup On-Premises SQL Server Databases to Azure Storage – Enjoy the new way to do your on-premise SQL database backup.
- Build better VHDs with expanded SQL SysPrep support in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 – A lot of information about the SysPrep tool and the new features to get more control on your Sql Database VM. These prepared VM are supported on-premise or in Azure.
- How Does the Cloud Change a Database Administrator’s Job? – Excellent post if you are a DBA or if your job is database related. This post gives a good summary of the cloud database ecosystem and a lot of other good references.
Programming
- TFS and VS 2012 Update 1 Released (Bryan) – Announce of the new update in Visual Studio 2012 and is correlation with TFS… update now.
- TFS Power Tools Issues (Dustin Metzgar) – Little tips to be able to enjoy TFS PowerShell cmdlets.
- Developer Movement Windows Phone App Challenge (Jonathan Rozenblit) – Developers : You have until the end of February to take this challenge !
- Git support for Visual Studio – Git, TFS, and VS put into Context (Scott Hanselman) – Woohoo ! Great news ! I know a lot of friends that will be really happy on this… If only they believe me.
- Learning JustMock for Working with Nasty Dependencies(frazzleddad) – Good post that compares rhino mock and justmock with some code samples.
- Cross Browser Debugging integrated into Visual Studio with BrowserStack (Scott Hanselman) – Wow! Wow! Wow! Great addition to Visual Studio. That the first thing I will do next time I 'm opening VS. And just when Expression suite is going down. Hum…
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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup (Patrick McKenzie) – A security breach in Ruby on Rails, comprimising a huge part of web data.
- Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools (Joab Jackson) – Git to be integrated in TFS without any add-on or tweak.
Miscellaneous
- 3 Tactics to Breed Innovation – Easy rules to stimulate new ideas and creativity in your team.
- Executing Powershell commands in Windows Azure Web or Worker Role VM Instance return exception (Avkash Chauhan) – Great tips !
- Plex is the media center software ecosystem I've been waiting for (Scott Hanselman) – Plex was a big discovery for me in the holidays. Since that time, I can’t imagine how I could go without it.
These posts are from François Boucher and Sébastien Leclerc Lavallée are also posted on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2013/02/reading-notes-80.html.
