Software
- RIA Services is Getting Open-Sourced – Jeff Handley announces Microsoft’s plans to open source RIA Services, via the OuterCurve Foundation, as ‘Open RIA Services’ with code hand over occurring this summer
Information
- What’s in a Good Commit? & What’s in a Good Commit? – Timo Mihaljov and Jaco Pretorius discuss best practices for what should go in a commit when developing, with Timo giving the initial list of 5 best practices and Jaco responding to these sharing his opinions
- How to integrate a Mobile Service with a SOAP Service Bus Relay Service – Paolo Salvatori takes us on a detailed exploration of combining cloud based Azure Mobile Services with on premise applications, and bridging the gap between the systems usng the Service Bus
- Practical Azure #24: Windows Azure Mobile Services – Jim O’Neil shares a session recording looking at the Windows Azure Mobile Services – this one is from before //build 2013 so there have been a few new announcements, and Jim shares links to the relevant sessions from Build to extend your knowledge
- Is there more to using SQL in Azure than redirecting your connection string? – Greg Low discusses some of the other things you should think about before moving your application databases to the (Azure) cloud as SQL Azure
- Think virtualizing SQL Server is evil? Here’s a 94 page PDF from the SQL Server team that might have you thinking otherwise… "Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing SQL Server 2012" – Greg Duncan highlights a new whitepaper discussing the best practices for running SQL Server 2012 in virtual environments, something which is ever more important as infrastructure teams continue adopting virtualisation.
- API diff report for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview – Jim Galasyn highlights some work by Koen Zwikstra at First Floor Software who has looked at the differences between the APIs exposed in Windows 8.1 compared to those in Windows 8.
- Web Page Performance – Profiling paint times – Dean Hume discusses the performance of web pages, specifically looking at the support in Chrome ‘Canary’ to help identiy the paint time of the page.
- Looking Back: My First C# Program – K Scott Allen takes us on a trip down memory lane, sharing one of his oldest .NET programs, from the early .NET 1.0 beta days