Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

Although eveone is familar with the Enterprise Integration Patterns and GofF books, there are some newer patterns which are related to Cloud environments. There is a good collection of them published in MSDN at the following link.

Microsoft moved methods and classes into Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.Data, so in order to use them use:

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebHelpers

 Followed by:

Install-PackageMicrosoft.AspNet.WebPages.Data

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http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780132248310/samplechapter/013224831X_02.pdf

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http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/04/08/best-of-build-2014-what-s-new-in-microsoft-azure.aspx

In Internet apps, OWIN now plays a major role. Read on the best practices behind Katana http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/owin-and-katana/an-overview-of-project-katana

I've came across a few places where WCF ChannelFactory was recreated each time a new method was called. This arguably a bad practice and should be avoided. Instead, an instance of ChannelFactory should be cached and reused when a call needs to be made thus avoiding expensive reinitialization of the factory. Read on more on MSDN related to this topic:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh314046(v=vs.110).aspx

Check out this wintellect takeaway from BUILD conference:

http://www.wintellect.com/blogs/krome/what-did-he-just-say-%E2%80%93-a-cheat-sheet-for-the-build2014-day-1-keynote

I've been trying to install Hyper-V on Gen-1 i7 920 processor running on Gigabyte EX58 Motherboard and had no luck with getting SLAT check:

Turned out, while processor was VT-d capable, MB was not VT-x enabled, hence this error. After grabbing latest Gigabyte BIOS and flashing it, SLAT check passed.

Read on:

http://jenkinsheaven.blogspot.com/2013/11/selenium-testing-in-cloud-with.html

Lately, I've become a fan of Git, because it's simple, easy to use and distributed.

Read on quickstart doc on Git:

http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/index.html