My Windows Azure Caching Service talk from DevConnections
I just presented my Windows Azure Caching Service talk. Thanks to everyone who attended. The audience was small, but I love that you all asked so many great questions. Here are the slides and demos...
View ArticleREST Presentation at Chicago Software Development Community in Oakbrook
Thanks again to everyone who showed up for my presentation on REST at the Microsoft Store in Oakbrook. I’ve posted the slides and demos here. It was a great time. I’ve never presented in a store, never...
View ArticleValidating a WRAP ACS token in node.js
A few friends and I are building a system for home automation. Specifically, it is an application that opens and closes a garage door. One of the design decisions was to write the server side in...
View ArticleBody Scanners, Fluoroscopes, and the TSA
From the 1920s through about 1960, shoe stores used an amazing device to sell shoes: the fluoroscope. Depending on the year, the reason behind the device changed; it helped you fit the shoe better, it...
View ArticleWindows 8 Lists: Sizing the list item
This past week, I was helping out at a “hack day” at the Microsoft offices in Downers Grove, IL. One of the attendees had an interesting problem: he wanted the contents of his list to dynamically...
View ArticleDirecting Service Bus to Communicate on HTTP Only
Many folks have constraints in their data centers, frequently relating to which incoming and outgoing ports they can open up. Many times, they are restricted to only using well known ports, like HTTP...
View ArticleRevisiting REST Versioning
I was recently asked what my opinion was on REST versioning, a few years after having written http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1566460 and after having recorded some stuff for...
View ArticleMVP Program Guest Post: Connected Apps Made Wicked Easy with Windows Azure...
A little while ago, I was asked to write a post on some topic for the MVP Program blog. I suggested a post on Windows Azure Mobile Services titled Connected Apps Made Wicked Easy with Windows Azure...
View ArticleNew work machine
Back in 1999, I officially gave up on the desktop computer. Since then, my personal machine has always been a desktop replacement quality laptop. I enjoy being able to take a powerful box wherever I...
View Article(Re)claiming My Blue Badge
TL;DR: Microsoft offered me a position on the Windows Azure Service Bus team and I took it. I’m ex-Microsoft and I reclaim my blue badge on February 11, 2013. Longer version: From 2000 to 2006, I...
View ArticleMVP Program Guest Post: Connected Apps Made Wicked Easy with Windows Azure...
A little while ago, I was asked to write a post on some topic for the MVP Program blog. I suggested a post on Windows Azure Mobile Services titled Connected Apps Made Wicked Easy with Windows Azure...
View ArticleNew work machine
Back in 1999, I officially gave up on the desktop computer. Since then, my personal machine has always been a desktop replacement quality laptop. I enjoy being able to take a powerful box wherever I...
View Article(Re)claiming My Blue Badge
TL;DR: Microsoft offered me a position on the Windows Azure Service Bus team and I took it. I’m ex-Microsoft and I reclaim my blue badge on February 11, 2013. Longer version: From 2000 to 2006, I...
View ArticleAzure OS Family 5 changes to RDP/Remote Desktop prevent logins on short...
TLDR; Azure OS Family 5 requires Remote Desktop passwords >= 10 characters. Anything less will cause your login to fail, repeatedly requesting that you re-enter your password. I ran into an issue...
View Article.NET Fx version to Azure Cloud Service Mapping
Posting this here mostly for me so I can find this easily again: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-guestos-update-matrix. I’m monitoring this URL, waiting for .NET...
View ArticleCopying files from a Docker container onto local machine
This past week, I’ve spent time wiping away my ignorance of containers. To do this, I started in my usual way: Buy a bunch of books. Probably too many. Work through books, doing exercises as I go. The...
View ArticleThoughts on Day 1 of Money2020, Europe
I just finished day 1 of Money 20/20 Europe. I stuck mainly to the large sessions and to the show floor. What I saw was a repeated vision of what this group in finance sees as the next set of important...
View ArticleThoughts on Day 2 of Money 2020, Europe
The conference at Money2020 has many tracks. Given the amount of questions I have seen from customers around distributed ledger technology (DLT) (Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Corda, etc.),...
View ArticleThoughts on Day 3 of Money 2020, Europe
Walking the show floor at Money 2020, one sees lots of payment providers. Its no shock then that today, I saw a lot of talks on how this works. This is in keeping with the theme of the show: the future...
View ArticlePublic Notes: Running Python in Azure Batch on Windows using the Azure Portal
TLDR; This post explains how to setup an Azure Batch node which uses Windows using installers. It also explains how to use application packages to preload Azure Batch nodes with utilities so that tasks...
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