Reading Notes 2014-09-15

You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis’ bloggers interest during the week ending on September, 14th.

Cloud

• Azure Automation: Reliable, Fault-Tolerant Runbook Execution Using Checkpoints (Chris Sanders) – Really interesting and complete post about automation in Azure and how to follow the best practices.

• Mostly Cloudy – Sept 5th, 2014 – Really interesting post that resumes the last release of Azure. It also gives a reference for every feature to get more detail.

• How do You Like Your Pizzas Delivered? – #Azure #PaaS – A short and simple explanation of what is in the cloud.

• Cloud Cover 152: Azure Search with Liam Cavanagh (Channel 9) (Chris Haishi Bai) – A really excellent web episode and a great demo of the new Azure Search.

• Making Azure Blob Storage Searchable Using Azure Search Service (Gaurav) – Great tutorial about the new Azure Search with a lot of details. The code is available online.

• Writing a Site Extension for Azure Websites (Elliott Hamai) – Great tutorial that explains how to build and test our Site Extention. It also explains how to publish it privately or publicly.

• Azure DocumentDB: first use cases (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) – Interesting post that places the new DocumentDb compares to the other solution in Azure.

• Azure DocumentDB: Working with Microsoft's NoSQL Database in the Cloud (Gastón Hillar) – This post is a great tutorial to get started with Azure DocumentDB in C#.

• IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS ? – Nice images to see the differences between each of them.

Programming

• New handy Visual Studio extensions – Three great extensions that add this little thing that simplify our life…

• #PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod – the underlying connection was closed – Useful tips to save some headache while developing.

• A chatroom for all! Part 1 – Introduction to Node.js – This post is the first tutorial of a series about developing a real application in Node.js and putting it to Azure. In this one, learns how to setup your Windows environment.

• Public Data Sources – finding them and using them – Useful post that lists different data sources.

• Introduction to Machine Learning Studio – Great article that introduces Machine Learning ML and shows us how to do a simple application in ML Studio…

• Two free video courses: Intro to ASP.NET MVC and Responsive UI with Bootstrap – Nice two courses (part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy) about an unavoidable tool these days: Bootstrap.

• Integrating OneDrive into Your Windows Store Apps – Excellent post that gets us started with the Live SDK, so we can add One Drive capabilities to all our applications.

Miscellaneous

• Can you hear me now? Unmute your microphone (Scott Hanselman) – This post published a useful tool that we should include in all our meeting description: HowToUnmute.com.

• Don't Check Your Email in the Morning (Scott Hanselman) – Who will raise this challenge?

• I can't hear you over the sound of how small your fonts are (Aaron Bertrand, JK Wood, lkh, Dandy Weyn BuckWoody) – Quick tips and indispensable tools for all speakers.

These posts are from François Boucher and are also posted on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2014/09/reading-notes-154.html.