Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Here’s an Entity Framework scenario for you: You’re using Entity Framework 6. Check. You’re using a custom database initializer to init your DEV and TEST databases. Specifically the DropCreateDatabaseAlways initializer. Yup, that’s me. Your project contains 1 or more Unit Test projects that utilize the above. Do you have a unit test project? Say yes. … Continued
What IaaS Means To You These days Infrastructure-as-a-Service has almost become as common-place as the ubiquitous Software-as-a-Service. Particularly in the last decade as the concept of Cloud Computing has evolved to become a more mainstream, affordable and sensible option. Small organizations looking to leverage economies of scale are no longer faced with stacking costly servers … 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
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
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
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
