Project 31-A

Several times using the Windows Azure Portal , the page has appeared to recycle correctly its 30 second refresh yet the process change I know reported success doesn’t show up. After a forum thread with a MS Support person, I learned to change the language setting at the top instead of log out and log in.   30 Second Refresh at the bottom left of the Browser Window     Change Language setting to refresh Portal Cache at the top right of the Browser Window

I purchased Flux a while back (metro version) and it is my favorite RSS reader. When my phone updated to mango, Flux updated the day after. Flux has been rock solid but the mango version wouldn’t even get past the splash screen. While I could have tried rebooting the phone (turn off, take battery out, put battery back, and turn back on), I knew a fresh install would definitely fix the issue.   I uninstalled Flux then, no the phone, went to the Marketplace  and found it again and reinstalled. The interface didn’t say reinstall though, it said “buy.” This is completely misleading. Microsoft knows I purchased the app so I clicked on buy, knowing it really wasn’t a buy but instead a reinstall.   Find app in Marketplace . “Buy” app which is really just a reinstall. You aren’t charged again.

Introduction This post will explain how Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure relate to each other. This is in response to an email question I received over on my apps site. The person, apparently, had been assigned the task of “putting his rewards app on Azure.”   This post is a 100 level (introductory) explanation.   Client/Server Twenty years ago the client/server conversation was obvious with a physical client machine (perhaps a Windows version) connecting through a wire to a physical server. Usually these were in the same location or in some sort of private wide area network.  But they were just a client and a server.   Ten years ago the client/server conversation was a physical client machine connecting through a wire to a physical server that was not in the same building, probably not in the same state or country. But they were just a client and a server.   Since then, until Windows Phone and Azure, nothing really changed except the conne...

I’ve made two apps targeting Windows Azure developers, testers, and managers. If your company uses any Windows Azure products, you should take a look at the apps, WAZUp and WAZDash. WAZUp allows you to manage the Deployment status and WAZDash reports on recent service issues. If you would like to keep up with my Windows Azure apps, subscribe by RSS .

Today, I was at Hack Dev days in Vancouver, B.C. and enjoyed the group and the presentations. Two recent Uni-grads and I teamed up and proceeded to define a project and work away for most of the day.  We were using the TinEye.com API, specifically a collection of 10 million images from Flickr that they have in one of their libraries. We decided to create a Chrome Extension on the API (one of the other dev’s had done one of these recently).   It’s been 16 months since I have done any serious JavaScript/Ajax stuff, and that was (in hind-sight) unfortunately against the website where the pages were hosted…   The code that consumed most of the day… The code below should have been up and working in 15 minutes… < script type ="text/javascript"> var ApiUrl = 'http://piximilar-rw.hackdays.tineye.com/rest/' function myData() { var fd = new FormData(); fd.append( "method" , "color_search" );...

In case you don’t want to add all the RSS feeds on the Windows Azure Service Dashboard , I’ve created an OPML file you can import into your ( Google ) reader. The file is up on Windows Live Skydrive but in case you can’t get to that, the file contents are below. If you found I’m missing a link or the link has changed, please let me know.   <? xml-stylesheet type ="text/xsl" href ="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn_opmlpretty.xsl" version ="1.0" ? > < opml version ="1.1" > < head > < title > Azure Service Dashboard Feeds </ title > </ head > < body > < outline text ="AppFabric Access Control [East Asia]" title ="AppFabric Access Control [East Asia]" type ="rss" xmlUrl ="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/status/RSSFeed.aspx?RSSFeedCode=NSACSEA" htmlUrl ="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/status/se...

University transcripts are no longer trusted because of grade inflation and even bogus degrees. The result is that often people are asked questions that anyone that has taken a 3rd year computer science course (recently) should be able to answer. Personally, I feel these questions are biased for recent graduates and against those that have been in the industry many years. They are theory centric and not practical center.   On Glassdoor, one contributor says it perfectly: There are many question which will from you university course of Informatics, so worth to renew that knowledge. Many puzzles, and mostly of them you can find in internet. Nothing difficult, just good exam on things which you will never use in real life .   A few examples are: Differences between Array, Linked List, Heap etc You could dive into mechanisms of implementation, or cite a table (i.e. rote learning) such as   Linked list ...