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An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure

One of the core value propositions of Windows Azure is the ability to have automatic, elastic scalability for your applications (i.e. automatically...

0 replies - 2865 views - 10/06/11 by Brian Swan in News

Node.js on Windows (or JavaScript for the backend)

What is Node? The simplest answer, albeit a simplistic answer, is that Node (or Node.js) is JavaScript on the server. Actually, it’s a more than just...

0 replies - 3668 views - 10/06/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone - Getting the data from the timeline

You already have the foundation for the Twitter client, and now you need to actually see what people are tweeting about. In case you missed the previous parts,...

0 replies - 992 views - 10/06/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Restarting Node.js When Your Source Changes

I’m lazy. I remember reading somewhere that that was a desirable trait to have in a developer. I’m not sure where though, and honestly it’s just...

0 replies - 2610 views - 10/06/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

Squish your CSS and JS files in your ASP.NET web apps

SquishIt is a nice library that helps you nicely minify your CSS and JavaScript files with very small effort. The tool works perfectly fine in both ASP.NET...

2 replies - 3372 views - 10/03/11 by Hajan Selmani in News

Log your LINQ query

Most of the beginner developer who are using LINQ to SQL as there back-end to talk with the database (i.e to perform the database CRUD operation), don't...

0 replies - 2455 views - 10/03/11 by Pranay Rana in News

First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview

After so much buzz Microsoft has launched some of the new tools at build conference and ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview is one of them. How I can install...

0 replies - 1610 views - 10/03/11 by Jalpesh Vadgama in News

What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard

It was a decision I was thinking about for quite a while now. Besides the fact that I am working mostly in the context of the .NET ecosystem, WordPress started...

0 replies - 2867 views - 10/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Are Scrum Masters agents for change?

If you are interested in finding out more about Scrum and how to implement it you might be interested in the Professional Scrum Master certification. Think...

1 replies - 2116 views - 10/01/11 by Martin Hinshelwood in News

Simple, fast and useful MiniProfiler for ASP.NET MVC

MiniProfiler is very lightweight, simple, fast and useful profiler for ASP.NET websites including ASP.NET MVC. It is designed to help you find possible...

0 replies - 3277 views - 09/26/11 by Hajan Selmani in News

XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould

So far with SilverXNA we have been dealing will a full page approach to rendering our Silverlight page in XNA, it’s quick and simple but there is...

1 replies - 3802 views - 09/24/11 by Simon Jackson in News

Project killing, code throwing (over the wall) and cost, oh my!

I got some requests to make RavenMQ an OSS project. And I thought that I might explain the thinking behind why I don’t want to do that. Put simply, I...

0 replies - 1847 views - 09/21/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

Paging ListView using DataPager without using DataSource Control

If you have already used the ASP.NET ListView and DataPager controls, you know how easily you can display your data using custom templates and provide...

0 replies - 4126 views - 09/20/11 by Hajan Selmani in News

Creating a Virtual Cluster – Part 2 – The Windows Cluster

As part of this ongoing series in creating a Virtual Cluster, this post will cover the creation of the Windows Cluster, using the Shared Storage created in...

0 replies - 1718 views - 09/20/11 by Nick Haslam in News

Reviewing SignalR–Part II

After reading this post from Scott Hanselman, I decided that I really want to take a look at SignalR. This is part two of my review. I cloned the repository...

1 replies - 4664 views - 09/20/11 by Ayende Rahien in News