February 2012 - Posts

"I can't even think about switching phones without these apps." Windows Phone 7, a Nokia Lumia 800 and the Essential Apps by Scott Hanselman

I'm still using my iPhone 4s mostly but a Nokia Lumia 800 showed up in the mail last week. Turns out that Nokia was giving away new Lumias to folks that had written Windows Phone 7 applications in the month of January as a part of their "WPNewYear"...
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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect …...
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Update: Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m really excited to be able to give you an update on our strategy and product roadmap for big data, especially around our embrace of Apache Hadoop as part of our data platform. As you may remember, at the PASS Summit last October we laid out our...
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Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure: New Best Practices Documentation Now Available by Windows Azure

We have just released new best practices documentation for SQL Azure under the MSDN heading SQL Azure Business Continuity . The documentation explains the basic SQL Azure disaster recovery/backup mechanisms, and best practices to achieve advanced disaster...
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How to upgrade an HP TouchPad to Android Ice Cream Sandwich by Scott Hanselman

A while back I picked up an HP TouchPad for $99 during the great "HP Tribulations of 2011." It was a fire sale and I was lucky enough to grab one on Amazon. I really like the HP WebOS and I enjoyed overclocking the TouchPad to get more performance...
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Video: Structuring JavaScript with the Revealing Module Pattern by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

This sample video from Pluralsight’s Structuring JavaScript Code course provides an introduction to the Revealing Module Pattern and demonstrates how it can be used to convert “function spaghetti code” to more structured code that’s re-useable and easier...
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jQuery Tip #5: Using jQuery’s end() Function to Work with Sets by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Previous Tips: jQuery Tip #1 - Defining a Context When Using Selectors jQuery Tip #2 - Manipulating the DOM in a Loop jQuery Tip #3 – Using the data() Function jQuery Tip #4 – Use the on() Function for Event Handling jQuery's selector functionality...
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jQuery Tip #4 – Use the on() Function for Event Handling by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Previous Tips: jQuery Tip #1 - Defining a Context When Using Selectors jQuery Tip #2 - Manipulating the DOM in a Loop jQuery Tip #3 – Using the data() Function jQuery provides several different functions that can be used to handle events. Choices include...
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One ASP.NET - Making JSON Web APIs with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API by Scott Hanselman

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta came out last week. It's got lots of new features as well as some surprises that move us closer to the "One ASP.NET" idea. I talked about this a little in this week's MSDN Flash email newsletter (you can subscribe...
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Microsoft's CQRS Journey Project to Take Community Contributions by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My colleague Grigori Melnik has a great blog post about the CQRS Journey project, which aims to deliver the source code for a complete, working reference implementation (an end-to-end sample app) that illustrates the key concepts, patterns, and approaches...
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Change Considered Harmful? - The New Visual Studio Look and Feel by Scott Hanselman

DISCLAIMER: This is my opinion. I don't work for the Visual Studio Team. If you write an article about this and quote me as "The Principal Program Manager for Something Major" then you are a silly person. The next version of Visual Studio...
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Screen Actors Guild Selects Windows Azure by Windows Azure

One of the entertainment industry’s leading organizations, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), recently chose to use a Windows Azure solution for their cloud computing needs. SAG moved their website from Linux based servers to Windows Azure to support...
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SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running...
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ASP.NET Web API (Part 1) by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  One of the improvements I’m most excited about is the support...
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Upcoming Pluralsight Course - Web Development with ASP.NET MVC, EF Code First, jQuery, and HTML5 by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

OK...so I admit we're still working on the final title, but there's a lot of great information in this upcoming Pluralsight course I'm working on so it's hard to keep the title short. The goal of the course is provide an end-to-end look...
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