SE Blogs I Follow- Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus May 23, 2013For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has been to build an open, wire-level protocol standard for […]ScottGu
- And that is why I wrote my own db… May 23, 2013[…](author unknown)
- RavenDB Dynamic Aggregation Webinar May 23, 2013[…](author unknown)
- The Morning Brew #1362 May 23, 2013Software Glimpse 1.3.2 released - The Glimpse Team announce the release of Glimpse 1.3.2, a minor update which makes some improvements to the client side of Glimpse including better rendering of recursive data structures Rhino Mocks New Home - Mike Meisinger takes on the project lead role for Rhino Mocks, and outlines a little of what is planned for the (now […]Chris Alcock
- May 2013 edition of ThoughtWorks Technology Radar May 22, 2013The ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board (TAB) has released the latest edition of our technology radar. This is where we highlight some of the technologies that are currently attracting our attention and that we feel are worth you taking a look at. In this edition our themes include my long term interest in breaking down boundaries between people and group […](author unknown)
- Rhino Mocks' future May 22, 2013Well, it seems like Rhino Mocks has a new daddy . In particular, Mike Meisinger has kindly agreed to take the project as the project lead. You can discuss all about this in the mailing list for Rhino Mocks, or hear more about Mike’s plans, visit his blog. […](author unknown)
- The Morning Brew #1361 May 22, 2013Information How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) - Scott Hanselman gives a detailed walkthrough of setting up load balanced server farms on the Windows Azure platform, showing the process principally for Linux VM’s, but with notes for Windows VMs too. C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, […]Chris Alcock
- How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) May 21, 2013A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites. I showed how to do setup Azure Web Sites in minutes with Git in this post. They hide the underlying OS from you, are automatically updated, scale easily, and share […]Scott Hanselman
- Highlights from Lean Kanban North America 2013: Day 2 May 21, 2013Highlights from Day 2 of my trip to Lean Kanban North America in Chicago 2013 Day 2: Tuesday, 30 April Designing Adaptive, Innovative and Engaging Organisations Using Sense and Respond 3.0 Adaptive Lean Principles: Stephen Parry Service climate is the combined perception of customers, employees, managers, and leaders I'm wondering where organisations li […]Jason Yip
- photostream 46 May 21, 2013Longwood Gardens, PA […](author unknown)
- Expansion to DIP in the Wild May 21, 2013Brett’s article on the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) and how it works in practice has been a popular read on this site (over 24,000 views since it was published at the beginning of the month). Brett has now expanded the article with two more examples from his delivery experience: questioning requirements and handling time. […](author unknown)
- Highlights from Lean Kanban North America 2013: Day 1 May 21, 2013Highlights from Day 1 of my trip to Lean Kanban North America in Chicago 2013 Day 1: Monday, 29 April Lean Coffee "Respect for People" means "Respect human nature" as in "respect the laws of physics". Everything You Know is Wrong: Bob Lewis "We should call ourselves process automation [rather than IT]." "Never nam […]Jason Yip
- Coin Change, Part 2 May 21, 2013In the previous exercise we studied the classic coin change problem to find all the ways to make a given amount of change using a given set of coins. Sometimes the problem in a different way: find the minimum set of coins needed to make a given amount of change. As with the prior exercise, sometimes the task is to find just the count and sometimes the task i […]programmingpraxis
- RavenDB, Victory May 21, 2013Jeremy Miller’s post about Would I use RavenDB again has been making the round. It is a good post, and I was asked to comment on it by multiple people. I wanted to comment very briefly on some of the issues that were brought up: Memory consumption – this is probably mostly related to the long term session usage, which we expect to be much more short lived. T […](author unknown)
- The Morning Brew #1360 May 21, 2013Software Knockout-ES5: a plugin to simplify your syntax - Steve Sanderson shares Knockout-ES5, a plugin for Knockout which takes advantage of modern browser’s support for ECMAScript 5 to simplify and give a more natural syntax for the model and binding code. ripple: Fubu-inspired dependency management - Josh Arnold highlights the Ripple Project which aims to […]Chris Alcock
- Book Review: Async in C# 5.0 May 20, 2013Resources: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Play Books The book's web site (O'Reilly) – downloads, errata etc A while ago I was attending one of the Developer, Developer, Developer conference in Reading, and I heard Alex Davies give a talk about actors and async. He mentioned that he was in the process of writing a short book for O'Reilly about async […]skeet
- ripple: Fubu-inspired dependency management May 20, 2013I’m happy to announce that our ripple project is now publicly available and it’s sporting some brand new documentation. The docs go into greater detail than I’m going to write here but I’ll provide some highlights: Overview: Ripple is a new kind of package manager that was created out of heavy usage of the standard NuGet client. The feeds, the protocol, and […]Josh Arnold
- Pre-Process your images with promises May 20, 2013For this post, I’m using Windows 8 WinJS as the vehicle. However, this approach is applicable by any method that implements an XMLHttpRequest. Here’s the scenario: you have an application with several images and those images are stored on a remote server. The sources of each image is something like http://someserver.com/myimage.png. Looking at a Windows 8 st […]johnvpetersen
- Fixing up the build process May 20, 2013There is a big problem in the RavenDB build process. To be rather more exact, there is a… long problem in the RavenDB build process. As you can imagine, when the build process run for that long, it doesn’t' get run too often. We already had several runs of “let us optimize the build”. But… the actual reason for the tests taking this long is a bit sneaky […](author unknown)
- The Morning Brew #1359 May 20, 2013Software YUICompressor 2.4.8 Released - Joey Smith announces the latest release of the YUICompressor, and the first since they shifted to a contributor model. As a result this release contains contributions from over 10 individuals, and includes updates to both CSS and JavaScript minification Just released - Prism for Windows Runtime - Blaine Wastell of the […]Chris Alcock
- Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus May 23, 2013