End of Month Research Roundup – June 2014
Endjineers do a lot of research and learning every day; we share interesting articles in our yammer account so that we can discuss them. Here is what we researched in June:
Microsoft Azure
- Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io [Troy Hunt]
- Server Garbage Collection Mode in Microsoft Azure [Chris Clayton]
- Office 365 Tech Tip: Retiring Office 365 Mailboxes [Champion Solutions Blog]
- blinkbox Saving Millions with Microsoft Cloud [Openness@Microsoft]
- PowerShell Script to Deploy Multiple VM on Azure in Parallel [Marco Russo]
- Creating Azure VM Asynchronous in PowerShell [StackOverflow]
- Start and stop Azure VM'S (and more) in parallel from PowerShell [Lawrence Gripper]
- Windows Azure Migration Tips and Tracks [rakhiguha]
- HSTS Support for Azure websites [Azure Website Forum]
- Swap Azure Website staging programmatically via REST API [Azure Website Forum]
- Azure Datacenter IP Ranges [MSDN]
- Free ebook: Patterns & Practices: Cloud Design Patterns [Kurt Shintaku]
- Request for a specific Azure website instance [amitapl]
- Using Time-based Partition Keys in Azure Table Storage [Alexandre Brisebois]
- Microsoft Azure Machine Learning combines power of comprehensive machine learning with benefits of cloud
- Microsoft readies public preview of cloud-based machine-learning service [Mary Jo Foley]
- Connecting your azure environment to your office VPN [James Betteley]
- Azure Media Services Infographic
- Simplified Setup and Use of Docker on Microsoft Azure [Microsoft Open Technologies]
- Docker and Azure Coolness [Corey Sanders]
- Windows Azure Startup Tasks: Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas [Steve Marx]
- ExpressRoute or Virtual Network VPN – What's right for me? [Ganesh Srinivasan]
- Configuring external startup tasks on an Azure cloud service [David Rodriguez]
- AzureTools – The Diagnostic Utility used by the Windows Azure Developer Support Team [Kevin Williamson]
- Accessing the kudu service [David Ebbo]
- Automatic optimization of images, CSS and JavaScript [Mads Kristensen]
- Azure VPN Connected to Company Network, but not able to connect VMs
- Configuring Virtual Machine Disks and Endpoints with Windows Azure PowerShell [Michael Washam]
Web Development
- How to configure ng-animate to work on a restricted set of elements [Francois-Guillaume Ribreau]
- Card – a better credit card form experience [Jesse Pollak]
- QueueBackgroundWorkItem to reliably schedule and run background processes in ASP.NET [Rick_Anderson]
- The Simpsons in CSS [Chris Pattle]
- Code Guide by @mdo
- Real-Time Visitor Count in Sitefinity with SignalR [Josh Morales]
- Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel [IEBlog]
Architecture & Programming
- Real World Functional Programming [Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet and Yin Zhu]
- Setting up TypeScript and AngularJs in Visual Studio 2013 [blorkfish]
- TODO MVC AngularJS edition
- Code Spaces - A lesson in credential management? [James Brown]
- The Saddest Moment [James Mickens]
.NET Ecosystem
- Polly – Transient Exception Handling Policies [Michael Wolfenden]
- Reduce CPU core count to improve Lucene.NET index building performance [Michael Lee]
- Micro WPF [Greg Duncan]
- How to transform T4 templates on build without installing a Visual Studio SDK [Daniel Cazzulino]
- weblogs.asp.net Now Running On Orchard and Azure Web Sites [Jon Galloway]
Build, Deployment, Test, Automation & Monitoring
- Running JavaScript Unit Tests in Visual Studio with Jasmine & ReSharper [Phillip Haydon]
- More on recursive merge strategy [Plastic SCM Blog]
- A Note About Git Commit Messages [Tim Pope]
- How to programmatically import a pfx with a chain of certificates into the certificate store? [Stackoverflow]
- Integrating StyleCop with TeamCity [Andy French]
- Tracking Every Release [Mike Brittain]
- Install Splunk with PowerShell (2014 Edition)
Tools
- 7-Zip Command-Line Examples
- Calabash - automated acceptance tests of mobile apps
- Heap Allocations Viewer plugin for ReSharper [Matt Ellis]
- JsNice – make obfuscated JavaScript code readable
- A couple of notes on using Endjin's Templify [penguinoid]
- Bootply - A Playground for Bootstrap, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
- Bootsnipp - Design elements, playground and code snippets for Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS framework
- Office Lens: A OneNote scanner for your pocket [OneNote Team]
Presentations, Courses & Groups
- Mark Rendle - Angular TypeScript at NDC Oslo 2014
- Liam Westley - Async C# 5.0 - Patters For Real World Use @ NDC Oslo 2014
- Liam Westley - An Actor's Life for Me – An introduction to the TPL Dataflow Library and asynchronous programming blocks @ NDC Oslo 2014
- NDC Oslo 2014 sessions
- The Blazingly Simple Guide To Web Testing – 36 Ideas to Try [Rob Lambert]
- Essential Truths Everyone Should Know about Performance in a Large Managed Codebase [Dustin Campbell]
- MLConf NYC 2014 Highlights [Charles Menguy]
- Task-based Asynchronous Pattern DOCX [Stephen Toub]
- Introduction to TPL Dataflow DOCX [Stephen Toub]
- Containers At Scale [Joe Beda]
Design & Experience
- The Story Behind One of the Most Beautiful Real Moments in Advertising [David Griner]
- Google (Material) Design
- Introduction To Photoshop Scripting [Kamil Khadeyev]
- The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14 [Tim Nudd]
- It can always be simpler [Luke Wroblewski]
- Crossing the Great UX–Agile Divide [Mike Bulajewski]
- How storytelling affects the brain
- Moniker.com Is Being Murdered [Jacques Mattheij]
- Every company needs this quote
- Introducing the Needotron: working out the shape of the product [GDS]
- PSD Viewing & Diffing [GitHub]
- Fritzing - an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone
- UX Crash Course: User Psychology [Joel Marsh]
- Tinc – creative stationary
- Design Thinking
- Little Bits – the easiest way to get started with electronics
- Civic Exchange – Technology for better government
- Brilliant PR on a Startup Budget [Courtney Boyd Myers]
