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Last week I was neck deep into some code + good ol SQL and it was a serious jam! I knew mighty well the thing cooking in my head but the hands have mind of their own. It dawned on me that I am a terrible typist. Had I known how to touch type I could have accomplished a lot more without having to slog the weekend. Now most the people who know me would say I type pretty fast but unfortunately It's just a five finger varant of Hunt and Peck as its equally bad. My fingers know a little bit about the...
Confession time – It wasn’t too intuitive to learn “using” a RESTful service first time I was confronted with it. The idea of the latest and greatest (well not so latest) to do Web Services was nice but after the initial infatuation days were over and it was time to actually work with it, things started getting interesting. The first ever RESTful service I had to use was the Windows Azure Storage REST API. It was early 2009 and the documentation and support was as scarce as things get. The communities...
The Extreme computing group has released a fairly comprehensive set of benchmarks for almost all aspects of WA. They have also provided the source code to alleviate all doubts that may surface with the MSFT logo lurking around the top right of their homepage :) (Which also resides at a cloudapp.net url). The code is simple and the tests comprehensive enough to hold as data points for customer interactions. Add to it the clean no nonsense Silverlight charts to render the benchmarks and you are set...
LinqPad as we all know has been a wonderful tool for running ad-hoc queries. With Windows Azure Table storage in picture LinqPad was no longer in picture and we shifted focus to Cloud Storage Studio only to realize the limited and strange querying capabilities of CSS. With some tweaking to Linqpad we can get the comfortable old shoe of ad-hoc queries with LinqPad in the Windows Azure Table storage. Steps: 1. Start LinqPad 2. Right Click in the query window and select “Query Properties” 3. In The...
Here we have a series of posts wherein I’ll reminisce in detail about my computing hardware journey so far. This is a tribute some magnificent and some not so magnificent pieces of hardware that has made this short journey of 11 years so enjoyable. Although, technically it would be more than 16 years of computing, I’ll be sticking to the Hardware I personally owned instead of classroom computers that I got to abuse as a kid. Technology overall and computer hardware in particular was a distant dream...
Lets face it, RegEx are a part and parcel of a developers’ life and very few actually have the know how to write them and even fewer have the willingness to do so. I am in the second category and oftentimes it takes me quite bit of inertia to wake up and create that perfect RegEx for my needs. Nettuts+ here does a lot of good to the community by providing a well thought-out and even well presented list of 8 RegEx you should know. Some of which you must have come across at some point in your career....
I hope Stevie Wonder (Steve Ballmer) of MSFT was right when he proclaimed that 7 was a luck number for MSFT. It better be, 'cause I am already loving the Windows 7 experience and some more WinMo oops now WinPho (I coined that term remember that :)) won't hurt either. Microsoft has covered all the nook and crannies of the interface in a video on MSDN. What MSFT has managed to achieve here was totally unexpected from the Redmond. A complete revamp of the platform. They've thrown all crap out of the...
All you tech addicts out there must be following the MWC 2010 keenly enough. But today (tonight for me in India) is a night I've been waiting eagerly. Kind of with the same teeny excitement with which we awaited the disappointing iPad. Tonights the night when my infidelities with WinMo may come to an end. I am sorry WinMo, yes I admit I was dating the iPhone OS, and Android lately. But you are to blame partly for it. Tonight I'll see if we could settle scores. Lets see what WinMo 7 err Windows Phone...
Context: My Windows Azure account is inaccessible since last morning (IST), its been 24 Hrs since I raised alarm with the support folks and its yet to be resolved. Rant: Now this is not a freebie account we are talking here, I am a Customer as well as a regular "Consumer". Have bills mounting 300$ +. Surprisingly another free account is there and the storage on that is running fine (Till 31st March). Now what have us poor paying folks done to receive such treatment? What about the SLA? I am being...
Joannes Vermorel of Lokad Forecasting is a Azure early adopter and a sincere patron ever since I've been lurking around the Azure forums. Always ready to help and come with innovative ideas to utilize Azure resources. Joannes yesterday has posted a long and very well compiled wish-list for the perfect Azure experience that he envisions. Why is this list important? Lokad in general and Joannes in particular shares my idea of a perfect cloud application. Forecasting requires sudden burst of compute...
The Windows Azure team announced availability of the November 2009 CTP of Windows Azure along with new Tooling for Visual studio and an improved Development Fabric as well as samples. The official announcement is given below, straight from the horses’ mouth. Today we released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2. What’s New · Service Model UI:A redesigned and significantly...
Had created this blog long back but could not due to time constraints. Now that our first Windows Zure app is alive and kicking its time for some REST . The Azure November CTP was announced last weekend and I thought it to be an auspicious enough time to start posting. I am Sarang Kulkarni, work for one of the biggest Microsoft shops in the market today, have been around for 8 years now. And been coding .Net for food for the past 4 years...