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Beefing-up the Azure Platform
During PDC 2010 in Redmond, WA Microsoft announced a bunch of improvements to the whole Azure platform, some of them desperately needed: Support for the new Virtual Machine role, in addition to the...
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Compiling Views in MVC4
By default, any typo or mistake in MVC razor views will only be detected during execution.. However, you can enable compiling of views and detect those errors earlier in the development cycle. Just...
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A manifesto
“There is something about investing your humanity, your eccentricity, your exuberance in the things you do. Not everything you do is going to be successful, but that’s part of the allure. It is also...
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Deploying an Entire Environment using Azure and PowerShell
The IaaS capabilities of Azure could be very handy when you need to create temporary development/test environments during the SDLC. Automating the creation and clean-up of these environments could save...
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Build error in TFS after upgrading your project to Azure SDK 2.2
Here is the scenario for this silly issue that bugged me for a while after migrating my Azure solution to SDK. But first let me tell you that I was working mainly in VS 2010 and just recently...
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Deploying an Entire Environment using Azure and PowerShell, Part 2
In a previous post, I detailed how to automate the creation of a standard multi-server environment using the IaaS capabilities in Azure. During the last days I had the opportunity of enhancing these...
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Proofera.com is live!
I am glad to announce that last week I released Proofera to the Web. This is an online proofreading and editing service I have been working during the last year. I devoted many late nights and weekends...
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Azure error deploying: “The feature named NetFx451 that is required by the...
A quick search revealed that if your service is based on something below Windows Server 2012 R2, you’ll get this error for .Net 4.5.1. To fix this go into all your *.cscfg files and in the very top...
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Tip of the Month: Retrieving stock market data into your Google Docs-based...
Yesterday I found this gem while creating a simple spreadsheet with a portfolio I am defining. Instead copy/pasting values of the stocks in my portfolio from any of the financial information providers,...
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Comparing the Performance of Azure Table Storage with Other Repositories
I have been using Azure Table Storage—ATS in a couple of my personal projects like Proofera, and I just love it. It is simple, the performance was decent and the storage quite cheap. A NoSQL key-value...
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