Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby)(blog.maartenballiauw.be)

submitted by maartenba(5845) 2 years, 1 month ago

At the JumpIn Camp in Zürich this week, we are trying to get some of the more popular PHP applications running on Windows Azure. As you may know, Windows Azure has different storage options like blobs, tables, queues and drives. There’s the Windows Azure SDK for PHP for most of this, except for drives. Which is normal: drives are at the operating system level and have nothing to do with the REST calls that are used for the other storage types. By the way: I did a post on using Windows Azure Drive (or “XDrive”) a while ago if you want more info. Unfortunately, .NET code is currently the only way to create and mount these virtual hard drives from Windows Azure. But luckily, IIS7 has this integrated pipeline model which Windows Azure is also using. Among other things, this means that services provided by managed modules (written in .NET) can now be applied to all requests to the server, not just ones handled by ASP.NET! In even other words: you can have some .NET code running in the same request pipeline as the FastCGI process running PHP (or Ruby). Which made me think: it should be possible to create and mount a Windows Azure Drive in a .NET HTTP module and pass the drive letter of this thing to PHP through a server variable. And here’s how... read more...

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KalamazooX Conference(joshholmes.com)

submitted by joshholmes(260) 3 years, 1 month ago

The KalamazooX Conference is a unique conference. It's being thrown by the technical community but you won't find any straight up technical talks there. There will be an amazing amount of hard hitting content on topics ranging from leadership to simplicity. Read more about it on Josh Holmes' blog. read more...

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Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins(joshholmes.com)

submitted by joshholmes(260) 3 years, 3 months ago

There are a handful of essential add-ins for Expression Blend that you should be using. This article talks about how you get the add-ins working in the first place and then dives into a few of the add-ins that are available. read more...

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Playing with JSON(joshholmes.com)

submitted by joshholmes(260) 3 years, 4 months ago

Josh Holmes digs into JSON with Silverlight and a few JSON frameworks... Check out the article to see Silverlight leveraging JSON with System.Json, LINQ and more. There's even samples in raw JavaScript, MSAjax, Prototype and JQuery. Finally he ended it all up by mixing JQuery and Silverlight. That was fun and remarkably simple. read more...

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Architecture of RIA from JAOO(joshholmes.com)

submitted by adanacp(61) 3 years, 6 months ago

In this amazing blog post, Josh describes the meaning of RIA, design patterns to consider when architecting RIA, as well as the top 10 best and worst practices. There are so many nuggets of information in this article that make it a _very_ important read for the beginner and seasoned RIA architect/developer. read more...

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nPlus1.org: A New Resource For Architects(randomactsofcoding.blogspot.com)

submitted by JamesEggers(1250) 3 years, 6 months ago

I came across a new resource for developers and architects at nPlus1.org. With it just recently going live, this user submission site holds a lot of promise on the information that will be provided. read more...

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Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby(altnetpodcast.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 3 years, 8 months ago

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project, read more...

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Top 10 Things New Twitter Users Need To Know(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburg(1264) 3 years, 9 months ago

Those new to Twitter need some guidance. Jeff Blankenburg has come up with a list of things that someone new to Twitter needs to read before even creating their account. read more...

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Ranting and Raving or Getting Results?(joshholmes.com)

submitted by mjeaton(724) 3 years, 11 months ago

Josh talks about the recent Vote of No confidence and offers up some advice for those wanting to see change. read more...

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The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal(aspdotnetmvc.com)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 11 months ago

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC read more...

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When the Going Gets Tough or How to Improve(michaeleatonconsulting.com)

submitted by DanRigsby(1880) 3 years, 11 months ago

How to improve yourself as a developer. read more...

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LightReader - Open Source Silverlight RSS Reader(michaeleatonconsulting.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 4 years, 1 month ago

Michael Eaton is working on an open source Silverlight RSS Reader read more...

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What's your ALT.NET?(codebetter.com)

submitted by joshholmes(260) 4 years, 5 months ago

Simple description of ALT.NET... read more...

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Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development (TDD)(methodsandtools.com)

submitted by martinig(568) 5 years, 3 months ago

This article provides an introduction to Test-Driven Development with concrete examples using Nunit read more...

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Day Of Dot Net(dayofdotnet.org)

submitted by evarlast(20) 6 years, 2 months ago

Remember http://www.digg.com/technology/_.Net_programmers_are_one_of_the_top_5_most_in-demand_jobs ? Many regions in the US are forming their own community driven conferences. Think Ohio Linux fest, but for .NET instead. Southeastern Michigan is starting off with some excellent speakers (rumored are some DotNetRocks hosts). read more...

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