Azure PowerShell 1.0 – David Justice announces the release of Azure PowerShell, available for install from the Web Platform Installer and featuring a number of improvements and new features across the whole Azure stack.
ASP.NET 5 Node Services – Ricardo Peres shares a look at Node Services, a Microsoft project which was demonstrated at the MVP Summit by Steve Sanderson, which provides a bridge between ASP.NET 5 and Node.js
Automating and Customizing the Visual Studio 2015 Install – Tim Sneath shares details of a the not particularly obvious setup options available for the Visual Studio 2015 Installer and looks at how you can automate aspects of the install
Aurelia Beta Week – Day 5 – Aurelia Interface – With all the Connect noise last week I managed to miss the Aurelia beta release, and its corresponding week of posts – well worth checking out the series and also the beta release of Aurelia
Playing with synchroninzation barriers – Raymond Chen discusses Synchronization Barriers, discussing how they work, what they are used for, and providing a real world analogy in both story form and also code implementation.
Embedding Chrome in your C# App using CefSharp – H. Gupta takes a look at hosting the Chrome rendering engine inside a C# application using CefSharp, walking through a sample application
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Microsoft Press share their deal of the week, with a significant mark down on the ebook of CODE by Charles Petzold – This is probably one of my favourite technology related books I’ve read in the past couple of years, and is excellent ‘back to basics’ reading for any developer.