How To Create A Powershell Script To Backup Your Azure Blobs

In this post I will show you how easy it is to create a PowerShell script using Visual Studio that can backup your Azure Blobs. The same concept can be applied to backup Azure Tables and SQL Database. ...

Thoughts from PrDC 2015

I wrapped up my 9th Prairie Dev Con this week. I’ve been running conferences since 2009 (earlier if you count Code Camps I guess), and after 2 SDECs and 9 PrDCs, I’m finding that I still learn something ...

EventLogs with PowerShell

If you want to log to Windows Event Viewer you need to first create the EventLog and source. You can do this in C# or PowerShell. I’ve used LinqPad on the server before (run as administrator), but PowerShell ...

Creating Azure WebJobs With The WebJobs SDK

The move to the cloud of many applications means that we have to learn new approaches to solving old problems. One common problem that most developers face at one point or another is background processing ...

Backing up Azure Blobs

As customers adopt the Microsoft Azure platform, the need to backup Azure Blobs is becoming increasingly important. That’s because Azure Blobs are used by both the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure ...

ClipX – an indispensable tool

I found ClipX a few years ago and have used it every day since. The ability to have a searchable history of copied text and images from a hot key (I use ctrl+shift+z) has been invaluable. It’s saved me ...

Migrating SSRS Reports and Schedules

If you’re like me, you’ve found yourself in need of a quick and easy way to migrate between SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) servers. You want it configured identically and don’t want to do it manually. ...

Beware of Gaana.com , Another useless music streaming app :(

From a long time I am searching for a app which help me to listen the songs. In 2009 I have known a website called (jango.com) which allow me to listen songs through their site. it work good. Just play ...

Python OOP

Back in the day, I did a fair bit of work with BioPython – I thought it was time to revisit this glue language ! Classes Python allows for the definition of classes. The builtin __init__ function serves ...

Java Collections Refresher

Jumping around between programming languages, its very easy to forget what is what.Here's my short summary of Java Collections (obviously you can go a step further with Guava !) Collections Overview In ...

APPSENCE – Unattended installation of AppSense Desktop Now

What is AppSense? Espacially what is AppSense for me? I can call myself a GPO fundamentalist. And in my opinion I can reach everything using Group Polices. However the role of the engineer it to know, ...

Getting Started with Ubuntu

Have you heard? Microsoft hearts Linux. And with good reason: Linux is the home of fast-paced innovation and collaboration. If you're comfortable with Linux then you can step right into new technologies ...

Serializers in .NET

The project code is on GitHub. What is the best serializer in .NET? No, no, no, this project is not about the best serializer. Here I gather the code which shows in several lines of code, how to use different ...

Azure Training Courses in Stockholm, Sweden

I’ve been developing delivering training courses in the Azure technologies and services since 2010. During that time we have seen Azure evolve rapidly, with the addition new services and continued evolution ...

Moving to a New Blog

I have long wanted to get back into hands-on with some more code and write a blog website. After too much deliberation, I decided to separate the two ambitions and I started with a new blog over intended ...

Thought of the day

“There are consistencies in what we see as inconsistent”. I said this out loud today. We have an automated UI test build where all passed 2 times in a row, now without any code changes 2 have failed, with ...

Getting Started with OpenCV

Overview OpenCV is a Computer Vision / Image Processing library. It used in ffmpeg video processing / streaming and ROS robot operating system. you can install it from here: http://opencv.org/downloads... ...

Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips

High quality reusable modules, like LEGO pieces, enable IT Pros to build automation solutions in minutes! Where can I find those high quality reusable modules? One way is to use PowerShellGet, a set of ...

R High Performance Programming by Aloysius Lim, William Tjhi, Packt Publishing Book Review

R High Performance Programming is probably a unique book in terms of the material covered, I just have not see yet to date a book that is dedicated to increasing the computational capacity of the R language. ...

Cross Platform with Raspberry Pi

So this is nice. Being able to fully access RPI file system from a Mac. Just tweaked sudo nano /etc/avahi/services/afpd.se... To get hostname all looking consistent (i.e Mac and PC all see Raspberry ...

NuGet Packager Extension for Visual Studio

I’ve used this Nuget Packager Extension for Visual Studio with success. There are 7 well defined steps to show how to create the package. You can create a package and drop it on a network drive and you ...

Simplicity Principles and Anti-Patterns

In my last post I stated that the only guideline for writing good software is to make it simple. There are a number of very specific code analyses that can be applied during a code review that help guide ...

Protect Sensitive Data with SQL Database Dynamic Data Masking

During the Chinese New Year holiday, Microsoft had just announced a new feature in V12 SQL Database named Dynamic Data Masking. This feature limits sensitive data exposure by masking it to non-privileged ...

Apple Watch - oData and Images

So its been a month since I started experimenting with making oData calls from the Apple Watch SDK. I picked up the project again this evening. I wanted to go beyond the basics and try and get some images ...

Submitting HDInsight Storm Applications from Visual Studio - Gotcha!

Apache Storm went to GA on HDInsight yesterday, and the latest Azure SDK has Visual Studio integration for creating Storm applications. You can select the Storm Application project template: And that creates ...

oData Offline, Worth The Wait?

So I’m syncing data to my App. It all works well, I’m looking at strategies now to disguise the (inevitable) synchronisation process. At the moment, I have a nice Windows Mobile esq. form. I’m sure I can ...

Everything Isn’t Fixed With Another Layer Of Abstraction

Many developers say with a sarcastic tone “You can fix any problem with another layer of abstraction”. The question is if there is any truth to this. While abstraction can increase reuse, flexibility and ...

Working Simply

So a while back I was listening to Corey Haines on the Ruby Rogues podcast (a good podcast even if you’re not a Ruby developer). He was talking about how the OLID principles from SOLID could all be derived ...

Native Android Apps

Overview Native activities – create an application based only on native code, without a single line of Java. Use cases: Android sensor polling – more accurate than Java eventsCross platform 3D – include ...

Xiaomi is a another bullshit brand.

Every time I see a new brand coming to India, I see some hope in it. Trust me most of them are working too good. Xiaomi maybe will become in future but it’s crap as the date of today. This company stealing ...

Xamarin.Android and Visual Studio–Build Failed with no errors!

I was working with Wearable applications using Xamarin.Android. It was working great and I was able to run the application on the emulator and on the actual wearable device itself. The problem started ...

10 Awesome Gulp Plugins Working with AngularJS and Bower

Below are some gulp plugins I'm using in my Angular.JS website for build and deployment. Basically what I need are 1, Generate <script> and <link> element in "index.html" page based on packages ...

Troubleshooting: C++ Assembly Load Failed on Cloud

One of my project needs a C++ assembly for data encrypt and decrypt. We built that assembly from Visual Studio 2013 and tested in local machine. Everything ran well. But when I published to Microsoft Azure ...

A No Obligation, Totally Free Learning From Packt Publishing!

Heads up! A no small print, no catches offer – totally free learning from Packt Publishing! How it works: every day starting today there will be a new free ebook offered to claim. The campaign has already ...

A No Obligation, Totally Free Learning From Packt Publishing!

Heads up! A no small print, no catches offer – totally free learning from Packt Publishing! How it works: every day starting today there will be a new free ebook offered to claim. The campaign has already ...

Responsive Web Design by Example by Thoriq Firdaus, Packt Publishing Book Review

As a data practitioner and BI person I am always looking for ways to present my data more visually appealing and yet easy to share. With the advance of the internet technologies and the introduction of ...

JNI – the Java Native Interface

*note: for brevity, error checking code has been left out of this post. Overview The JNI API allows Java applications to invoke native C/C++ code and native C/C++ code to invoke Java. Using the JNI comes ...

Java Fork-Join

in java.util.concurrent package - JDK 7 A Framework for Divide and Conquer recursively divides a task into smaller subtasks until threshold check indicates subtask size is small enough to execute serially. ...

Cool Chocolatey utilities for developers with a single install

Simply run this command from command line or powershell with elevated privileges:cinst Ferventcoder.Chocolatey.Uti... The utilities that will be installed are:console2fiddlerlaunchyl... ...

Speaking at DevSum 2015

This year I’ll be presenting at DevSum, which is the largest .NET conference in Sweden. I’ll be talking about Visual Studio Online, Microsoft cloud offering for your development projects. I will go through ...

Introducing GitFlow for Visual Studio

Update: The exension is now also available for Visual Studio 2015 Preview: https://visualstudiogallery... GitFlow is a popular workflow that provides ...

Getting Started with Android Wearable using Xamarin and Visual Studio

What are Wearable Devices? The terms “wearable devices“, and “wearables” all refer to electronic technologies or computers that are incorporated into items of clothing and accessories which can comfortably ...

Windows 10–that was easy

Windows Update seemed stuck on some files. I found KB971058 (How do I reset Windows Update components?) which had a bunch of suggestions. The one I tried was: Delete the qmgr*.dat files. To do this, at ...

Odata Consistency

So I’m drawing to the end of a long day and a long project. As you know I’ve been building an iPad client in Swift that uses Core Data and OData to provide offline and online access to Dynamics NAV. A ...

Windows 10 technical preview–where’s Metro gone?

Two problems have appeared: Windows Update and Recovery is unresponsive – the page just show the circular hourglass thingy (what is it called?); also prevents shutting down Windows and I have to force ...

New Version of CloudCasts Website

I’ve just published a new version of the CloudCasts website at www.cloudcasts.net. I published the first version in May 2009, and at the time it was running in a single web role instance on my PDC08 Azure ...

A Windows Guy and His iPhone – Day 1 - 4

I was thinking of how to open this blog – to contrast the fact that I’ve been a Microsoft guy for so long and now here I am with an iPhone device, except…it doesn’t matter here in 2015. The days where ...

OpenCL - An Overview

Overview OpenCL is a GPGPU API that abstracts over acceleration devices (be they CPU, GPU or FPGA) to provide data-parallelism (as well as task-parallelism) behavior. heterogeneous portability is achieved ...

TypeScript and RequireJs

TypeScript and RequireJs work well together. Writing small modular code with Single Responsibilities (SOLID principles) is a good practice in any language and JavaScript is not an exception. AMD-Dependency ...

SWIFT a property to set controls to visible

Fed up with typing .hidden=true ? My brain only works with .visible = false Is it me, or does the World need this SWIFT extension? Just add this in a file to your SWIFT app. import Foundation import UIKit ...