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Monitoring FTP server (file shares) in Windows Azure
It is some time ago that is possible to use Virtual Machine(VM) in Windows Azure. A good example when you could use VM is build your own FTP Server hosted in Azure. The problem is that most products...
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How to destroy your company in five steps
Some companies use all of their power to destroy themselves instead of beating their competitors and bringing excellent product to the market and customers. Here are the five steps how to destroy your...
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Nokia X and the emerging markets: The Microsoft Windows Phone isn’t good enough?
Some things I’m excited about, some things I’m less excited about. This sentence, which perfecty represents what I’m feeling is an allusion to Joes Belfiore’s short statement to the question about...
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Problems with the installation of SQL Server 2014 (after the Windows 8.1 Update)
I’m not sure if this have something to do with the Windows 8.1 Update but the reality is that I wasn’t able to install SQL Server 2014 on my machine after the Windows 8.1 Update. The SQL Server 2014...
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Styling Telerik Kendo UI Grid with LESS and Bootstrap
Admittedly, I’m not UI expert. Even the world of HTML, JavaScript and CSS is interesting I have again and again the same problems. Some of my problem is, that I like to make the things quickly. And CSS...
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Automatic registration of AutoMapper profiles with the Unity dependency...
Normally when you create AutoMapper profile, it is you responsibility to register them. However with the dependency injection container (DI) you have great possibility to automate this. Sample...
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Microsoft Windows with the Windows Phone integration
Windows Phone become more and more popular. But what about the integration of Windows Phone into Windows? Should be this new Windows? See this prototype and let me know. Take Our Poll Filed under:...
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LTE von Drei: Es geht auch anders. Definitiv.
Österreich befindet sich weltweit laut dem Wohlstands Index 2013 und dem Human Development Index auf dem Platz 21. Eine bemerkenswerte Leistung. Meine Wohnung in Strasshof an der Nordbahn ist per...
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Lead your team like House
Dr. Gregory House is a brilliant leader. What makes him so special? He lets people challenge him “…there’s no I in ‘team’. There is a me, though, if you jumble it up.” Dr.House to Dr.Cuddy, Episode 9...
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Custom Performance Counters with PostSharp in Windows Azure
The performance measurement is one of the most important things in the software development. Performance should be addressed throughout the whole development process and not only when the risks become...
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Joining data in the memory with data in the database table
There are many approaches how we can join the data in the memory with the data in database. But you should know the advantages and disadvantages for each one. Test Environment Hardware components Test...
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Increase Performance With The Database Connections
Maybe you are surprised, maybe not, but fact is that you can increase the performance of reading and writing data with the explicit database connections. The simple test method GetEmployees is reading...
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Cooperation between the Autofac and the Microsoft Extensibility Framework
Before I show you the cooperation between the Autofac and Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) I want bring you in short my opinion why is there the place for both of them. If you are try to search...
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Simplify usage of comments with the ReSharper templates
Ok, don’t be cross with me, I know the comments aren’t clean code. But sometimes we need them. ReSharper templates is excellent possibility to write your comments quicker and personalized so you can...
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Performance and Load Testing with IIS Express
Sometimes you would like to start IIS Express without hitting the F5 or Shift F5 in Visual Studio. This is especially helpful when you would like to run performance or load tests continuously on your...
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{Create} Test Azure
Wie verbindet man Softwarequalität und Wirtschaftlichkeit? Am 03. März hielt ich einen Vortrag bei Microsoft Österreich zum Thema Visual Studio Online, Microsoft Azure und Application Lifecycle...
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Ich bin ein Wirtschaftsflüchtling, sind wir es nicht alle?
Selten bespreche solche Themen auf meinem Blog. Da besteht eine große Gefahr, dass sich die Diskussion der Sachlichkeit entzieht. Aber das Thema Flüchtlinge ist bereits so breit, emotional und...
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Xamarin and Autofac: How DependencyService and Dependency Injection are...
The Xamarin.Forms includes DependencyService to help shared code to resolve platform specific implementation. The important thing here is that DependencyService isn’t replace for Dependency Injection...
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What did we forget? Oh, State Machine.
Last week I evaluated couple of State Machines. It wasn’t some structural evaluation, rather quick overview what is today in the market. I was just about to have something lightweight and easy to use...
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Publish NuGet release and prerelease packages by TFS automated build
There is good reason to create NuGet packages automated. This will eliminate the difficult and error-prone manual process. Create and publish NuGet packages isn’t hard by the Team Foundation Server...
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Am I going to leave Windows Phone? I don’t know.
My first Smartphone was Symbian based Nokia 3650, followed by dozen Windows Mobile devices like HTC Magician, HTC TyTn and HTC Touch. After Nokia’s great 3650, the iPhone 3G was my second attempt to...
View ArticleFeature Flags with FeatureToggle
Feature Flags is useful method to integrate rapidly new functionality, finished or unfinished, into the product. But there are also some traps. There are different categories of Feature Flags 1:...
View ArticleAmazon IoT Dash Button with Azure Logic App
Once I said that the purpose of simplicity is to hide the complexity and that’s why I love the idea of Amazon IoT Dash Button. But I also like is simplicity of Azure Logic Apps. So how could we connect...
View ArticleAuthenticate against Jira REST APIs with OAuth 1.0a 1-Legged and .NET Core 2.x
OAuth specification 2.0 is out there since 2012 but 1.0a version is still widely used. Atlassian’s Jira is for example such case. You wouldn’t find anything about 1-Legged OAuth in the documentation...
View ArticleMerge Azure App Service App Settings in ARM Template
Well you can easy provide Azure App Service App setting in ARM template. Right? But what if you would like to merge settings included in script with those provided outside. This is another story. Look...
View ArticleWhat Have the Best Sport and Developer Teams in Common
Success is not an accident. Three key components that the best sports and developers teams have in common. Short read. Vision The vision is the fuel of every team. It is something which will make some...
View ArticleCosmos DB Performance Measurements with 4 Different Indexing Policies
Indexing is important and can save significant costs and improve dramatically performance. Test Setup Four keys scenarios were tested: Container with indexing policy to set to None Container with...
View ArticleUse Managed Identity in Azure API Management to Authenticate With an Azure...
You don’t want that someone is calling your Azure Functions unauthenticated. You can rely on old-school function keys or use Azure Active Directory. Azure Functions provide elegant Authentication /...
View ArticleAzure App Configuration – Central Configuration Repository
Cloud based applications are distributed in nature. As the times go it becomes more and more difficult to maintain an overview over all settings used across all of the components. Finally there is a...
View ArticleCookie Based Authentication With HttpClient
Cookie based authentication against API isn’t common scenario but you would find it here and there, mostly in legacy applications. HttpClient supports cookies out of the box, but it doesn’t work always...
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