Reading Notes 2014-07-28
You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis’ bloggers interest during the week ending on July, 27th.
Cloud
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Using Reserved IP Addresses with Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines – Nice PowerShell scripts and comments to help us with our Azure fixed IP.
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Getting Acquainted with #Azure Service Bus Event Hubs – This nice post describes the event bus of Azure, when more muscles are needed.
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Affinity Groups in Azure – Nice post that clarifies the purpose of the affinity group.
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Integrating Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services with Salesforce.com – Really nice tutorial that explains how to send a message to a SaaS in Microsoft Azure.
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Azure Databases – Restore Local Database To Azure – This post describes a quick and easy way to copy our database to the cloud when we have a simple database.
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AWS Wants to Attract Mobile Developers with New Services (Saroj Kar) – Nice new tools from Amazon.
Programming
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How I’ve started loving PowerShell (Fabien Dibot) – This nice post is a real pep-talk. It also gives references for more information about PowerShell.
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Why you need to use Bower – If you are hesitating about if you should or not try Bower, this post will pin down the nail.
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Image Sprites made easy with Web Essentials (Josh Eastburn) – If you thought that using sprite was too complicated for the benefit you could have, this post will show you how effortless it is today.
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New Compiler and Moving to GitHub – Interesting improvement about the compiler, looking forward to try those new features… And time to add GitHub followed projects to add Typescript.
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Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 1 – Get all the tools you need to move. Part 2, Part 3 – Last post of the series, focuses on the troubleshooting…
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Day 28: Doing More Interesting Things With Buttons (james.chambers) – Nice tricks to get an amazing dropdown control.
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Day 30: Loading Bootstrap Modal Content via AJAX (james.chambers) – "The season finally" of a great series about Asp.Net MVC bootstrap. If you didn't have read it already go for it.
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How to fake session object / HttpContext for integration tests – Useful tips to get better or more complete integration tests.
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Visual Studio Online updates include enabling Azure Active Directory support and self-service account deletion – Nice update.
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Why Agile Sprints Are Not Tiny Waterfalls (M. David Green) – It could be confusing at the beginning.
Integration
- Troubleshooting the WCF-Custom adapter – Typed-Polling with dynamic SQL & empty result sets – Great post that gives a lot of little tips so next time we don't get stock.
UX
- API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes (Tomas Vitvar) – Some simple thing to take into consideration that will make your REST API better.
- Android L: Developers Enjoy Unprecedented Freedom (Racheal Dane) – This new version seems really promising!
Miscellaneous
- Don’t Let Your Head Attack Your Heart – Interesting thoughts about how leadership is closer to us and our feelings.
- Just Let Me Code! (Andrew Binstock) – Interesting share about the evolution of coding and the impact on the developers.
These posts are from François Boucher, Sebastien Leclerc and are also posted on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2014/07/reading-notes-150.html.