Understanding Azure Machine Learning
Build sophisticated machine-learning models quickly and harness the power of predictive analytics to aid your research and build smarter apps.
Azure Storage Tables Whitepaper
Learn about the good and bad of Microsoft’s Azure storage library and develop an improved understanding of Azure Tables. Get introduced to a set of time-honed patterns and practices related to Azure Tables.
Multi-Stage Builds with Docker
One of the most anticipated announcements in the Docker space when it comes to building images is Multi-Stage builds because of the huge benefits it gives to CI/CD pipelines in DevOps. Before this announcement, building software in a container usually involved creating a container with all the SDK’s and compilers in the container, uploading code…
Migrating Legacy ASP.NET apps to Docker
Many organizations, not wanting to rewrite applications, are figuring out how to take apps and containerize them for the cloud. Older operating systems are either end-of-life or approaching the end-of-life. Likewise, applications are increasingly being migrated to cloud hosts. The need to do this is as pressing as ever and containers offer a simple, viable…
A Late Synopsis Of The Angular NG-Conf Day 3
With two jam-packed days in the books, only one day remained. The format for the final day of ng-conf was another single room, all day series of sessions. Much like the first day, the range of topics was both broad as they were relevant and informative. Day 3 had a few major themes expressed in…
Xamarin Forms for Windows Developers: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned, Part 2
Xamarin Forms best practices: The 60+ tips, tricks, lessons learned accumulated over the last couple of years using Xamarin Forms as a Microsoft Developer.
Xamarin Forms for Windows Developers: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned, Part 1
The Confession Okay, right off the bat, I’m going to admit I’m a Microsoft “bigot” or in less unfriendly terms, a Microsoft “super-enthusiast” with severe “Microsoft is actually better at everything” leanings. I’ve spent most of the last 30 years writing Microsoft-based solutions with Microsoft tools and technologies for clients who are Microsoft “shops.” Still,…
A Late Synopsis Of The Angular NG-Conf Day 2
Day 2 of ng-conf was a fair day. Multiple talks and activities took place all day long. Not being able to clone myself and see all of the discussions, I set my focus on a particular path for the day. So let’s take a look at the path I chose. RxJS: The Good Parts The title of…
A Late Synopsis of The Angular NG-Conf Day 1
April 5-7th 2017 marks the 4th year of the Angular conference ng-conf. This year’s ng-conf marks my first year attending, w00t w00t to that. From the first day’s rapid-fire talks, the tone of the conference, and I think for Angular in general, is set for the year. Some of the major takeaways from the first…
Building JavaScript Applications with Angular and Redux
Introduction The web application world has been disrupted by the plethora of JavaScript technologies which has transformed the development of web applications from being a primarily server-side effort, to primarily a client-side one. Ever since jQuery made cross-browser web applications easy for everyone to create, a steady stream of JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been…
NG-CONF 2017 Day Three Highlights
Keynote Brad Green spent some time discussing how Google as a company is fully embracing Angular as an application development framework. In fact, the goal is to have all web application development within Google to be using Angular by the end of 2017. He also explained that it makes sense for them to invest so…
NG-CONF 2017 Day Two Highlights
Day Two changes things up from the Day One and Day Three single-track format. There are breakout sessions focused on a specific topic as well as chances to sit down and ask questions of others who have expertise in Angular, including members of the Angular team themselves. It’s a good chance to listen to how…
