The Challenge Are you struggling to align your software product roadmap and delivery with the marketplace demand? Maybe you’ve asked, “We have a talented software development team, so why are we constantly behind our competitors to get working software that is valuable to our customers out the door?” Or, as I often hear, “Why can’t … Continued
boot2docker – Remote Docker daemon boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s. boot2docker is required if you want to do any work with docker images on a Macintosh. This includes building images and running containers. … Continued
Azure Machine Learning This month, Microsoft GA’d their offering into the cloud machine learning space, Azure Machine Learning. For those that have done data mining in analysis services, both the workflow and the mining models should be familiar. In A Breath If you haven’t already been briefed, machine learning is often used as a way to … Continued
Same Same, But Different Lately, I’ve been working with SQL Azure a lot more. For some of our simpler projects the differences aren’t that palpable, but the more data centric applications have started to tease out some of the more notable differences. Over next couple of months I’ll write up some of the more glaring … Continued
Deployment woes? Par for the course. I ran into an odd issue today while deploying a SharePoint solution via Visual Studio 2013 to a test SharePoint instance today: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution. The only change made prior to deployment was the addition of a … Continued
Lost Art I’ve always found it odd, that very few web developers spend much time getting deep into HTTP and some of its goodies. Even though HTTP is a technology that is at the core of all web apps (and most mobile ones!), a lot of its benefits aren’t fully leveraged. Case in point, ask … Continued
That’s right, SharePoint and The Shining. This is a combo that just works. The insanity starts here … NCSS solutions (No Code Sandbox Solutions, for the uninitiated) are extremely useful for laying in custom SharePoint groundwork. Via these solutions you can easily deploy custom Content Types, Site Columns, List Definitions, even Master Pages, Page Layouts, … Continued
Monthly Slogan: It’s Never Been Cheaper A lot of our clients use cloud services like Microsoft Azure, Amazon WS, and the Google Cloud Platform. Some are doing BI tasks (think analytics services and storage) while others are hosting their production sites (think 24/7 scaling compute instances). What continues to surprise me is the cadence of recurring price … Continued
Most SharePoint devs out there know about trimming navigation items based on audience trimming settings. This has been around since I’ve been using SharePoint, back in the dark-dark times of SharePoint 2007. It usually just works. Add a link or folder to the site’s navigation, set which audience should see the link, and done. People in the … Continued
Which This? If you’ve worked with JavaScript for while, you’ve likely been made aware of the unique power and confusion that comes with the “this” keyword. We’ve been using TypeScript in some of the single-page applications we’ve been working on, and it has a helpful syntax to help you manage the “this” keyword. Examples Consider … Continued
