The Morning Brew #1123

Information

• What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA) – Jason Zander gives the low down on all the key things you need to know about developing Windows 8 Applications to run on ARM based hardware, ranging from getting started with the code, through debugging, and performance profiling and testing.
• Deployment in Visual Studio 2012 RC Using Entity Framework Code First Migrations – ASP.NET and Web Tools Developer Content Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Tom Dykstra discusses the use of Entity Framework Code First Migrations as a part of the deployment process from within Visual Studio 2012 RC
• Using FluentMigrator with MSBuild – Miroslav Popovic is also looking at database upgrades, this time using FluentMigrator, exploring how you can integrate its use within your MSBuild scripts.
• Windows Azure Evolution – Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 – Shaun Xu kicks off a series looking at the new Web Sites feature of Windows Azure, giving an overview of the functionality, looking at how you can deploy an application as a Windows Azure Website, and exploring the configuration and pricing options.
• Windows Azure Websites: A PHP Perspective – Brian Swan also takes a look at the Windows Azure Websites functionality, exploring what this allows from a PHP standpoint
• Announcing Windows Azure SQL Reporting General Availability – The Microsoft BI Team share the news that Windows Azure SQL Reporting is now generally available allowing your reporting to be run as cloud based service.
• TechEd 2012: New Windows Azure Storage Features, Improved Manageability, and Lower Prices, Introducing Asynchronous Cross-Account Copy Blob, Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature), Queue SAS and update to Blob SAS & New Blob Lease Features: Infinite Leases, Smaller Lease Times, and More – The Windows Azure Storage Team share a bunch of announcement posts of new features of the Windows Azure Storage Services, as well as highlighting the recent price cuts to their services.
• Redis Is The Most Important Tool In My Toolbelt – Karl Seguin discusses how Redis has become his new Swiss Army Knife of choice, discussing the range of problems that Redis can solve.
• Why I do not mind VS2012 ALL CAPS menu – Mehdi Khalili discusses why he doesn’t care about the all caps menus in Visual Studio 2012 RC as the new Quick Launch functionality means he doesn’t use menus anymore.
• Free, online Windows 8 UX Training – Jaime Rodriguez highlights some free virtual training from the Windows 8 User experience team taking place this Thursday (14th June).

Community

• The Stack – Liverpool .Net User Group – June 2012 – The Liverpool based Stack User Group are meeting on Monday 25th June where I will be delivering a session on WebSockets and SignalR (at a slightly more relaxed pace than at DDD SW).