10 Jan 2012 7 minutes to read

Node.JS on Windows Azure Part 2: Building a Basic Web Application with Node.JS on Azure

In the last post in this series on working with Node.JS in Windows Azure I showed you how to set up your development environment for working with Node.JS and Windows Azure. In this post I am going to show you how to write and deploy a simple web application...

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22 Dec 2011 1 minute to read

New Windows Phone 7 App: Lolcats Professional Pro Plus

localcatsproplus-icon-largeIn addition to my regular work for Microsoft and the open source...

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18 Dec 2011 2 minutes to read

Project Scaffolding for Python

 python-logo.pngOver the summer I went through Zed Shaw’s Learn Python the Hard Way in an effort to broaden my horizons and start learning languages beyond C#.

Learn Python the Hard Way is a book...

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14 Dec 2011 5 minutes to read

Intro to Node.JS for .NET Developers

Node.js darkMicrosoft announced out-of-the-box support for Node.JS on Windows Azure on Tuesday; we pushed both an official Node.JS SDK for Windows Azure services (table storage, blob storage, and queues) and some tools for creating...

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02 Dec 2011 2 minutes to read

How to Modify Machine.config on Windows Azure Web Roles

Earlier this week I spent some time helping a company troubleshoot some performance issues with Windows Azure – their ASP.NET request queue was growing longer than the maximum amount of queued requests supported by default in IIS (5000) during bursts of high activity, so I had to help them find...

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29 Nov 2011 4 minutes to read

How to Migrate Data between On-Premise SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Azure Without Getting a Migraine

I love my job at Microsoft, but there are some times when we simply make it really damn hard for people to do business with us. Migrating data from an on-premise SQL Server to SQL Azure is sadly one of those lapses where, for whatever reason, we’ve left people who...

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19 Nov 2011 3 minutes to read

Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer

I am frankly disturbed by a trend that I’ve seen both in-person and all over Hacker News / Reddit through the past year, and I am going to finally give it a name: “popped collar programming.”

Popped collar programming is the hipsterization of software development, and it’s happening in a...

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16 Aug 2011 5 minutes to read

How to Use Dependency Injection (Ninject) with WCF Services

I spent a lot of time late last week trying to figure out exactly how to set up dependency injection for a WCF service I was developing on Windows Azure; there’s some documentation out there on how to do it, but it’s not nearly as helpful as I would like...

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14 Aug 2011 1 minute to read

New Open Source Project: MVC.Utilities

I announced this on Twitter late last week, but I open-sourced a number of common helpers and service interfaces that I use throughout all of my production ASP.NET MVC applications and wrapped it into a project I call MVC.Utilities.

MVC.Utilities has a number of helper classes for the following:

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03 Aug 2011 5 minutes to read

How to Recruit a Technical Co-Founder for Your Startup

The LA startup scene is fascinating, having lived and worked in it for a year now - it's a scene teeming with brillaint people with big ideas, and it's starting to attract some major capital from the Bay Area. It has one major issue: a big shortage of technical...

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