Still playing catch up this week, after having been on the road for a few days…
Software
- Announcing Updates to Windows Azure SQL Database – Gregory Leake announces the latest update to Windows Azure SQL Databases, which adds support for Linked Servers and distributed queries, recursive triggers, exposing of statistics and improved firewall functionality
- Announcing YUI 3.7.0 – The YUI team announce the latest release (already updated to fix an issue) of their UI Library for web applications. This release includes some significant performance improvements, updated and rebuilt controls and much more.
Information
- Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough – Part 5: Distributing Your App From the Windows Store – Rodger Jennings continues his series looking at the Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview with a look at the latter stages of building an application using tme, getting your app distributed in the Windows Store, walking through the process.
- Continuous Deployment with Windows Azure Web Sites – The Silver Lining Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Larry Franks takes a look at getting continuous deployment to Windows Azure websites set up from a Git repository, looking at an example using Octopress, a Ruby based blogging engine.
- Things in C# you might have missed – Filip Ekberg takes a look at a couple of neat tricks and tips in C# which may have passed you by, taking a look at the use of bits and bytes, some interesting numbers and ways of working better with lists.
- Make your HTML/JavaScript app accessible – Jennifer Norberg discusses at length the techniques and features you can (and should) use to make your JavaSCript / HTML5 based Windows 8 applications more accessible.
- Configuring your ASP.NET application for Microsoft OAuth account – Pranav Rastogi continues his series looking at authorisation in ASP.NET using OpenID / OAuth, sharing some notes on getting up and running with Microsoft OAuth.
- Let the Power of Shell be with you! A Powershell review – Marcin Dembowski takes us on a tour of some of the neat features of PowerShell, and explores how and why it can be used to make our lives better.
- JSON is very nearly valid PowerShell – Douge Finke further discusses the newly added support for JSON data in PowerShell 3, exploring the parsing and conversion of JSON data into PowerShell objects.
- Redesigning CodeProject – Chris Maunder discusses the latest encarnation of long time development site The CodeProject, talking about its new Metro enspired look and feel.
- Announcement: Introducing Windows 8 | Elite – Sarah Lamb highlights the Windows 8 | Elite programme, a scheme to encourage development of Windows 8 applications for the marketplace before the offical consumer launch of Windows 8, enticing you with great additional benefits.