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Presenter: Chris J.T. Auld (with his New Zealand accent?), in a Level 200 session. Introduction Session about the Stock Trader application. Started out...
View ArticleSQL Server Database Private Cloud Deep Dive
Presented by SQL guru Danny Tambs. The session covers a whitepaper produced by HP and Microsoft. The following is a summary of the session: This...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 – Visual Options
It was a little while ago that I blogged about Richard Bank’s approach to revert the menu in Visual Studio 2012 back to the friendly and reliable...
View ArticleThread Management in C#
Intro Long before Microsoft .NET 4.5 was a reality, in the days when asynch programming was not a given, I developed a bit of a concurrency wrapper ...
View ArticleBuilding a Claims Aware Environment using ADFS 2.0 and WCF
Introduction This is going to be a multi-part series of articles with the end goal of producing a solution which handles security/identity claims...
View ArticleTroubleshooting ADFS 2.0
This is sort of a follow-up to my first article on Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). This afternoon I spent far too many hours...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Yesterday morning I and a colleague made our way to Llewellyn Hall at the Australian National University to hear from the father of the World Wide Web, none...
View ArticleBut I Want to Run an Agile Project!
To some an ‘Agile’ project means delivering value to a client or business more frequently than with other methodologies. This can be achieved, with...
View ArticleWhen to Grant Domain Admin Permissions
So I’m sure we’ve all had to contemplate this at some point in our development lifetime – when is it appropriate to grant developers and architects the...
View ArticleWindows Azure Media Services
File this one away for further analysis. Live or delayed (on demand) content delivered via Windows Azure Media Services. Takes advantage of local...
View ArticleEnabling the Windows Store
If you are a user of the new “Windows to Go” feature of Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which enables you to boot and run the Windows 8 operating system off...
View ArticleEstimating on an Agile Project
If you’ve ever had any involvement with an Agile project (whether it was “pure” Agile or not), you’ll likely have encountered the beast which is effort...
View ArticlePowerShell, Visual Studio and You
Recently I needed to write up a new Powershell script to automate some actions independently of our major release cycle.This took me down a road with two...
View ArticleFun with Bootstrap
Recently, I was directed towards a new open source web front end framework called Bootstrap. The current version (as if this writing) is version...
View ArticleIntroducing the DZone definitive guide to Cloud providers
In the past few months, the folks at DZone put a call out to their very talented and knowledgeable MVPs to volunteer to develop a comprehensive guide to...
View ArticleInstalling Windows 8.1 Preview
Today we’re taking a look at the very recently released – and some would say highly anticipated – preview of the upcoming upgrade for Windows 8,...
View ArticleA Look at Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Following on from my previous article about Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, I’m now moving on to Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’ve installed...
View ArticleIntroducing and Installing TFS 2013 Preview
Recently, Microsoft released a preview version of their next version of their team development suite, known as Team Foundation Server (TFS).Long time readers...
View ArticleData Maintenance with an NAS
Over the past week I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have a...
View ArticleData Maintenance with a NAS
Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have...
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