End of Month Research Roundup – January 2014
We spend quite a bit of time every week finding, consuming & sharing interesting content that can help us in our day to day work and we like to share & discuss internally on our Yammer account. Some of the links are new, some are old, but all are useful & interesting.
Microsoft Azure
- Diagnostics and logging in Windows Azure Web Sites (Devon Musgrav)
- Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs (Scott Hanselman)
- Getting Started with the Windows Azure WebJobs SDK (Tom Dykstra and Rick Anderson)
- Useful resources for Windows Azure Media Services (Mingfei Yan)
- ASP.NET Identity and Windows Azure Table Storage (Stuart Leeks)
- Monitoring the Performance of Multi-Tiered Windows Azure Applications (Bruno Terkaly)
- Windows Azure Storage and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) – Lets Have Some Fun (Gaurav Mantri)
- Workers on a shoestring in Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
- Azure Architecture Reference (Richard Astbury)
- GreenButton Launches WarpDrive for Cloud Data Transfers (Cloud Computing Journal)
- Azure Storage Blobs: the API DownloadToStream is always faster than OpenRead (Ying Qin)
- Best Practices for Building a Hybrid Cloud (Brad Anderson)
- Windows Azure Tables: Introducing JSON (Azure Storage Team)
- New Changes to Windows Azure Storage – A Perfect Thanksgiving Gift (Gaurav Mantri)
- oData and JSON payload examples (Leo Hu)
- The Cloud Ninja Project (Full Scale 180)
- Azure Powershell Setup and IaaS Mass Endpoint Creation (Toby Meyer)
- Windows Azure Management Certificates (Mike Wood)
- Copying VHDs (Blobs) between Storage Accounts (Michael Washam)
- Web Platform Installer in Windows Azure Startup Tasks (Tamas Nemeth)
- Developing Multi-Tenant Web Applications with Windows Azure AD (MSDN)
- Virtual Hard Disk Requirements of Windows Azure Pack Gallery Items (J.C. Hornbeck)
Web Development
- Output Caching in ASP.NET Web API 2 (Filip Wojcieszyn)
- Cookies vs Tokens. Getting auth right with Angular.JS (Alberto Pose)
- WebApi.Hal (Jake Ginnivan)
- JavaScript JSON Date Parsing and real Dates (Rick Strahl)
- CMS Trap (Maxim Chernyak)
- Redesigned Google Maps can now be embedded in websites (Jacob Kastrenakes)
- Evoq in the Cloud
- DNN Cloud Services – Under the Hood (Channel 9)
- Ultimate Guide to CMS
.NET Ecosystem
- PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin (The .NET Team)
- Announcing Deedle - Data Frame and Time Series Package for Exploratory Data Programming with F# and C# (Don Syme)
- AlphaFS – Advanced Windows Filesystem Support in .NET (Peter Palotas)
- AlphaVSS – Bringing Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service to .NET (Peter Palotas)
- Nemerle (.NET 4.5.1, Visual Studio 2013) (Vladimir Kochetkov)
- Async, await, and yield return (Ian Griffiths)
- Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now RC on NuGet.org (Immo Landwerth)
- A glimpse into a new general purpose programmin g language under development at Microsoft (Charles Torre)
- Microsoft's Midori: The M# connection (Mary Jo Foley)
- An actor model implementation in C# using TPL DataFlow (Johan Olsson)
- Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces) (Ross Gardler)
- Coeffects: The next big programming challenge (Tomas Petricek)
- CudaSharp (khyperia)
- Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and use (Patrick Smacchia)
- Parsing Big Records with Json.NET (David Cox)
- Roslyn performance (Matt Gertz)
- NDepend.Path (Patrick Smacchia)
- ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ (Simon McKenzie)
Build, Deployment, Test & Automation
- Chocolatey, Remote PowerShell and Azure IaaS – Automating Dev Box Creation (Lawrence Gripper)
- Building a Desired State Configuration Pull Server (Steven Murawski)
- Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012 – Book Download (MSDN)
- Branch By Abstraction (Martin Fowler)
- The right way to restore NuGet packages (David Ebbo)
- Sauce Labs and JetBrains TeamCity Tutorials
- TeamCity.GitHub (Eugene Petrenko)
- Automatically Building Pull Requests from GitHub (Hadi Hariri)
Tools
- .Net Fiddle
- GitLab Community Edition
- OzCode Features
- Keycodes
- Convert .NET (Based on .NET 4.5)
- Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
- JSON C# Class Generator
Misc
- History of the Amiga (Jeremy Reimer)
- Fisher–Yates shuffle (Wikipedia)
- TwilioCon Europe 2013
- An Introduction to Nitra (Hadi Hariri)
- Tiny 3D-printed selfies can be ordered from your living room
- Four Things That Make Job Hunting For Developers Hell (Bethany Marzewski)
- Take a closer look at Google
- Holacracy
- Video Is the Future of Social