Reading Notes 2012-11-05
You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis' bloggers interest during the week ending on November, 5th.
Cloud
- This Site Now Powered By Windows Azure Websites! (Chris) – In this post Chris is sharing his experience when moving his web site to Windows Azure.
- Declarative Architectures in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – In this post Buck is sharing method and third party to design architecture where the cloud is part of the solution.
- Windows Azure Store Preview – Quick post to introduce some feature of the new Windows Azure Store.
- How to use MongoDB from PHP in Windows Azure Web Sites – Really nice tutorial that explains how to create the just announced MongoDB as a service and use it from a Windows Azure website.
- Announcing Second Generation Standard instances for Amazon EC2 and a price reduction for M1 instances – AWS announces a new generation of EC2 instance with nothing less than 50% more computational capability/core.
- SQL Data Sync now available in the East and West US Data Centers! – Announce of SQL Data Sync availability in two data center.
- Where in the world is SQL Data Sync? – Nice catch, learn how from the new Azure portal to access the Azure data sync page.
- Episode 92 – iOS SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Harris, Nathan Totten) – Great episode that shows how easy it is now to use Windows Azure with iOS.
- Episode 93 – Real-World Windows Azure with Mural.ly (Nick Harris, Nathan Totten) – An amazing video, watch this podcast. It's energizing to see someone with so much passion. And try Mural.ly.
- Single Sign On with Windows Azure Active Directory: a Deep Dive – Nice deep dive that stays clear even if very detailed.
Programming
- Your Visual Studio, Your Colors – Great, it will now be easier than even to customize the color of VS2012 with this new add-on.
- TechDays 2012, une nouvelle ère débute – A lot of great opportunities are coming this fall for all Canadians.
- Developer un site web avec node.js et tous les outils – Wow. Perfect tutorial to get started with Node.js. It explains how to setup a nice working environment, sometime saving tips, etc. (in French)
- Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 2012 RTM (Vittorio Bertocci) – I missed that one when it came out… Great tool!
- The Hanselminutes – Glimpse gets a benefactor – can open source and commercial software live together? - If you’re doing web development you should listen this and you must try Glimpse.
- The Hanselminutes – What is Typescript and why with Anders Hejlsberg - Loud and clear. The best description of what is Typescript and why I should start using it.
- Podcast Update with Guest Spots and a New Show – October 2012 (Scott Hanselman) – A list of interesting podcast in different domains suggested by Scoot Hanselman.
Integration
- BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Hierarchical Schema to a Name Value Pair – Nice post that describes the pros and cons of four methods to accomplish a mapping from hierarchical schema to a name value pair.
- BizTalk Server 2010 ESB Training Kit (Saravana Kumar) – Free resources, this is a link to bookmark.
- Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter (Steef-Jan Wiggers) – Great tutorial using Windows Azure Service Bus with BizTalk.
Miscellaneous
- Windows 8 upgrade: your hardware and software options explained (Sean Hollister) – The perfect post to help everyone to take the good decision regarding Windows 8. A link to share.
These posts are from François Boucher and are also posted on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2012/11/reading-notes-69.html.
