Tag: General
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Seven things you didn’t know about me
Seems 2009 is starting off with yet another round of tagging people. Back in 2007, I already had to write five things about myself. Since we are now two years further, I guess each year asks for another extra item to be added. Thank you Michelangelo for making me write another post. Here goes, seven things you may not know about me: Since almost everyone I know in PHP land has been tagged, let’s also tag some people outside PHP land: Here are the rules if you are tagged:
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Top blog posts in 2008
Since everyone (that is Simone Chiaretta and Phil Haack) seems to be blogging about 2008 and their top posts, here’s my list. 1. Reuse Excel business logic with PHPExcel – This post explains how to use PHPExcel in a business scenario where a spreadsheet contains calculation logic which is used in a PHP application. 2. Code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Studio developer, did you know you have a great performance analysis (profiling) tool at your fingertips? 3. ASP.NET load balancing and ASP.NET state server (aspnet_state) – A how-to on load balancing with ASP.NET. Also related to ASP.NET Session State Partitioning and ASP.NET Session State Partitioning using State Server Load Balancing.
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Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design
The people at Packt asked it again: “Do you want to review this book?” Sure I do! The book I’m reviewing this time is ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design, written by Vivek Thakur.
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CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 5 - Deploying in the cloud
This post is part 5 (and the final part) of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about deploying CarTrackr in the cloud after all modifications done in previous posts. Other parts: Deploying CarTrackr is done using the Azure developer portal. I'm creating a hosted service named "CarTrackr", which will host the cloud version of CarTrackr. I'm also creating a second storage acocunt project, used for TableStorage of all data in CarTrackr.
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CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 4 - Membership and authentication
This post is part 4 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing authentication in CarTrackr. Other parts: In my opening post on this series, i defined some tasks which i would probably have to do prior to being able to run cartrackr on azure. for membership and authentication, i defined 2 solutions: cloudship or Windows Live ID. At first, Cloudship looked really nice as it is just an implementation of ASP.NET's provider model based on Azure. Some thinking cycles later, this did not feel right for CarTrackr... For CarTrackr, authentication only would be enough, membership would be real overkill.
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CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 3 - Data storage
This post is part 3 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing cloud storage in CarTrackr. Other parts: Windows Azure offers 3 types of cloud storage: blobs, tables and queues. Blob Storage stores sets of binary data, organized in containers of your storage account. Table Storage offers structured storage in the form of tables. The Queue service stores an unlimited number of messages, each of which can be up to 8 KB in size.
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Microsoft launches Implementation Notes (for ODF)
Just a quick post: at the Document Operability workshop in Brussels on December 2, Microsoft already announced they were going to do something with implementation notes. Here’s a scoop from my blog post on that:
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CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 2 - Cloud-enabling CarTrackr
This post is part 2 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I'll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about enabling the CarTrackr Visual Studio Solution file for Windows Azure. Other parts: For a blank Azure application, one would choose the Web Cloud Service type project (installed with teh Azure CTP), which brings up two projects in the solution: a <project> and <project>_WebRole. The first one is teh service definition, the latter is the actual application. Since CarTrackr is an existing project, let's add a new CarTrackr_Azure project containing the service definition.
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Track your car expenses in the cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Part 1 - Introduction
As you may see in the title, I will be starting a series on modifying my CarTrackr sample application to a cloud-based, Windows Azure application. At this point, I don't know if it's easy nor do I know what it takes to achieve this goal. I only have some assumtions on how CarTrackr can be converted to a cloud application. This post is part 1 of the series, in which I'll describe the architecture of Windows Azure and what I think it takes to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. Other parts:
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New Entity Framework / LINQ blog!
Just a quick recommendation note: One of my colleagues, Julien Hanssens, has started blogging on his experiences with the Entity Framework and LINQ. Here are some links to get you started: