Reading Notes 2014-01-13

You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis’ bloggers interest during the week ending on January, 12th.

Cloud

A new year's present: introducing Glimpse plugins for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw) – Really interesting tools that provide a lot of useful informations. I need to try this.
Quick ways to edit your files hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS), other than re-deploying – Nice quick tips that can save you a lot of time… and troubles.
Do you serve your Azure Web Site hot or cold? – Useful use for the scheduler to improve website performance.
New Windows Azure Network Security Whitepaper (Ashwin Palekar) – This is the post to improve your knowledge about network security, since it references the windows Azure white paper on the topic.
Cloud Cover Show – Episode 125: Getting strated with Application Insights for Visual Studio Online – Really great video. If you don't have time to read the MSDN Mag article or to get a better online experience, this is the video.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3023421/why-the-pull-to-refresh-gesture-must-die (Austin Carr) – Why should we manually do something to have our data updated?
http://blog.bignerdranch.com/4322-64-bit-smorgasbord/ (Mark Dalrymple) – 64-bit is coming to iPhones and iPads, what is it that we need to do to be ??
http://www.neglectedpotential.com/2014/01/ptr/ (Nick Arnott) – Now I'm confused…

Composite Pattern: Handling child node collections – Interesting code solution. To read a second time.
Temporary is The New Permanent – Interesting point of view about caring about our code.
The Quality of Code (Paul W. Homer) – One of the best posts I read about this topic since a long time. It explains very well how easy it is to lose the focus.
TypeScript: A New Language for .NET and JavaScript Developers – Nice introduction and quick overview of TypeScript.
Introducing Visual Studio Online – This post is a lot more than only an introduction. It explains all the options we will encounter to start our first project, but it also describes how to use it, build with a CI, test, monitor, etc.
Prefixing ID columns with the table name in Entity Framework – See a time saving tips in this post to rename all ID property of your datamodel.

[…]You can find out more about these conventions in the blog post Custom Code First Conventions (EF6 onwards)[…]

Finding a low-memory browser (Scott Hanselman) – Interesting information, and a simple but useful PowerShell script to get the info.
What blogging was – Interesting thoughts about what blog became.
Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman) – A post to read, and bookmark. I always find awesome tool that I didn't know.