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Jenkins + SVN with certificate and username/password authentication
At work I ran into a challenge recently. We have been using Subversion for quite a while already with good experiences. CruiseControl was our build environment, but is heavy on the xml configuration....
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Introduction to Slickgrid
Introduction Slickgrid is a javascript grid with full potentials and possibilities. It is a bit difficult to learn and to configure but it offers great performance and flexibility. Some of the nice...
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LightSwitch application consumes OData service from the Windows Azure...
Nederlandse versie To get some hands-on experience with the Windows Azure Marketplace I decided to use a free data source and to build a LightSwitch application on top of it. Having some LightSwitch...
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SignalR – Event notification for the web
As a developer, I always used to implement the observer pattern in software. The principle of the observer pattern is that there is a weak link between the subject and the observers. As a result of...
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LightSwitch Windows Azure Website using OData service
In a previous post I created a LightSwitch application that consumes an OData service that provides vehicle registration information. Users can enter a license plate and technical information is...
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Monitoring Azure Cloud applications
There are many tools to monitor cloud applications. Some examples are AzureWatch and SCOM 2012 (System Center Operations Manager). But the new Azure management portal, which recently got out of the...
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LightSwitch Cloud Service using OData service
In 2 previous posts: LightSwitch application consumes OData service from the Windows Azure Marketplace LightSwitch Windows Azure Website using OData service I created a LightSwitch application that...
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Using Agile/scrum for succesful projects
A satisfied customer – that is what we are all aiming for. For many years we have been doing traditional projects for one of our customers. While working on these projects lots of changes were raised...
View ArticleTableStorageAppender for Log4net
Logging to the new Table Storage in the cloud is a very common case when you’re working with Azure projects. There are various ways to do this. You can setup log4net to use the Trace log that is...
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Session state in Windows Azure
Windows Azure uses load balancers to distribute traffic over multiple instances of a web role hosting the same web application. These load balancer are not ‘sticky’ (user session aware) so there is no...
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Application configuration in Windows Azure Cloud Services
Almost every application running as a Windows Azure Cloud Service has configuration. Application configuration in this context does not mean user-specific application data but data the application...
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Robocode: programming or game
Robocode is a programming game with the goal to code a virtual tank to compete against other virtual tanks. The player writes the intelligence of the tank in Java and has no direct influence on the...
View ArticleAwait anything
Did you know…. …that in C# 4.0 it’s possible to make anything awaitable by using extention methods. The only requirement for this is to implement a function called GetAwaiter(). Let say for example we...
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Windows Azure operation logs
The Azure Management Portals (old and new one) have been lacking an important feature ever since the availability of Windows Azure. There was no audit trail available for actions performed by...
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Using NUnit for your tests in Team Foundation Service with a Git repository
Since quite some time now it is possible to create a new project in Team Foundation Service (the cloud variant, not to be confused with Team Foundation Server) using Git for your version control. Since...
View ArticleWill crisis drive creativity?
Reading the papers this morning I was wondering if editors discuss their main topics with other paper editors before publication. Next to the pessimistic tone of voice of many papers, I found a...
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Scheduling in Windows Azure
Scheduling is a feature that is often required within applications. Traditionally, SQL Jobs were a good way to schedule when your application already needed a database. However, SQL Azure lacks the...
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TechEd Europe 2013 keynote summary and announcements
The first session at TechEd Europe 2013 was the keynote presented by Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President Windows Server and System Center Program Management and some other Microsoft employees. This...
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Auto-scaling Application Block and Windows Azure
Imagine this… writing a blog post about the Auto-scaling Application Block (AAB) for Windows Azure, also known as Wasabi, and how to implement it while attending TechEd Europe in Madrid and at the same...
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Visual Studio Server Explorer – Azure resources
Microsoft recently released the Azure SDK 2.1 version and this brings a major update to the Visual Studio Server Explorer view. This applies to both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 Preview....
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Cloud-powered Load Testing with Team Foundation Service
Using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate it is relatively easy to create and execute load tests on your website or web application. A client system generates the load during these tests. This blog post first...
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Windows Azure Web Sites Diagnostics
By default, each Windows Azure Web Site (WAWS) has build-in diagnostics that can be easily accessed by a developer. Diagnostics URL A typical WAWS has the following URL:...
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Windows Azure Resource Limits
When using Windows Azure for a while several limits can be encountered. Some of these limits can be increased by contacting Microsoft for support. Other limits cannot be raised at this moment but might...
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How to run a second /adfs/ls on your ADFS 2.0 server
Ever wanted to run a second /adfs/ls website on your ADFS2.0 (test)server for whatever reason? I do! I found an easy way and I’ll explain how to do it. In my case there are multiple projects working on...
View ArticleOptimistic locking with Java Persistence Api
forcing version increment of parent/root entity object When implementing a locking strategy for a CRUD application you can choose between pessimistic locking and optimistic locking. Most of the time...
View ArticleRest API Response Envelope
Leveraging Spring 4.1 ResponseBodyAdvice I’ll show you how to setup your Java code to create a Rest API response envelope for every Controller response transparently using Spring 4.1. This works with...
View ArticleCaching data in Azure – an update
Microsoft Azure offers multiple types of caching. Which one to choose? This post lists the cache offerings in Azure and explains the differences between those. Four cache offerings can be found in...
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The next generation IT professional
The demand of next-level skills of the IT professional is increasingly changing. The IT environment is changing rapidly and organizations needs to be able to answer the modern and future request on IT...
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6 Steps to Sales Success for IT professionals
Is it true Sales is not always telling the truth when they want to sell something? Is it true that Sales sells products and services that do not even exist? Or are these clichés wrong and can IT...
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4 keys for organizations to succeed in IT innovation
In this article I describe 4 keys to be successful as an organization using the right leadership striving innovation. Innovation is being powered by all 5 forces Porter describes. In the center we have...
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6 steps to a succesfull innovation program
In these days of disruptive IT- innovations, the call on organizations to implement a innovation program becomes louder. The question is not when we should start the innovation program, but how. If...
View ArticleHow to build your IT sourcing strategy?
In the IT industry, software development is accomplished through different shoring strategies. We have on-shore, off shore and near shore. But with the economic growth in a lot countries, economic...
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Business value of CaaS – Cloud-as-a-Service
As more businesses see the potential of cloud computing, IT organizations and departments will have to be able to offer CaaS; Cloud-as-a-Service. In this article I describe the different aspects of...
View ArticleSociale innovaties in IT (deel 1)
Wanneer we spreken over vernieuwing van de manier hoe mensen in organisaties samen werken, om hiermee te winnen aan productiviteit, laten toenemen van omzet & winst, doorgroeimogelijkheden van...
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4 aspects of social innovations in IT: flexibility, leadership, employability...
Talking about renewing the way people work together in organizations in order to gain in productivity, to increase revenue and profit growth opportunities and develop talented employee, we talk about...
View ArticleEntityFramework: Updating EF4.x to EF6
During the migration of an ASP.Net MVC application for a customer from an on premise environment to Microsoft Azure, I’ve run into some troubles updating EF so that we use the EF6 Retry Logic for...
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Material Design
Material Design is an application design specification developed by Google. It gives developers and designers a simple, effective and unified way of designing applications. This ensures users have the...
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