Because it’s Friday: Powerpoint Punchcards
A "Turing Machine" — a conceptual data processing machine that processes instructions encoded on a linear tape — is capable of performing the complete range of computations of any modern computer...
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Team Services Extensions Roundup – April
A 6 month high of 30 new Visual Studio Team Services extensions got added to the Marketplace in April. It was really hard to only pick two from such a big set so I encourage everyone to check them all...
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Setup continuous deployment to MS Azure Government using Visual Studio Team...
Azure Government Clouds provide private and semi-isolated locations for specific Government or other services, separate from the normal Azure services. Highest levels of privacy have been adopted for...
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Optimization tips and tricks on Azure SQL Server for Machine Learning Services
Summary Since SQL Server 2016, a new function called R Services has been introduced. Microsoft recently announced a preview for the next version of SQL Server, which extends the advanced analytical...
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Enabling Azure CDN from Azure web app and storage account portal extension
Enabling CDN for your Azure workflow becomes easier than ever with this new integration. You can now enable and manage CDN for your Azure web app service or Azure storage account without leaving the...
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HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse April updates
We are pleased to announce the April updates of HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse. This is a quality milestone and we focus primarily on refactoring the components and fixing bugs. We also...
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Data driven troubleshooting of Azure Stream Analytics jobs
Today, we are announcing the public preview of metrics in the Job Diagram for data driven monitoring and troubleshooting of Azure Stream Analytics jobs. This new functionality enables the quick and...
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Using Microsoft R with Alteryx
Alteryx Designer, the self-service analytics workflow tool, recently added integration with Microsoft R. This allows you to train models provided by Microsoft R, and create predictions from them,...
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3.67 Million Square Kilometers of new imagery for Turkey, Greece and Argentina
We are excited announce the release of new imagery covering a total of 3.67 million square kilometers in Turkey, Greece, and Argentina in partnership with Digital Globe. Below are a few examples of the...
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3.67 Million Square KM of new imagery for Turkey, Greece and Argentina
We are excited announce the release of new imagery covering a total of 3.67 million square kilometers in Turkey, Greece, and Argentina in partnership with Digital Globe. Below are a few examples of the...
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Master the Master-Detail Pattern
In the world of information consumption in applications, it’s crucial to have a clear and easy way to navigate and inspect that information. The master-detail design pattern has become one of the most...
View ArticleMake App Promotions Work: Acquire & Re-engage the Right Set of Users
Click! Click! Click! and you are done. Yes, acquiring new users and re-engaging with existing users of your app is as simple as that in the tried and tested ‘promote your app’ feature in the Windows...
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Understanding performance and usage impact of releases using annotations in...
A little over a year ago, the Application Insights team re-introduced release annotations so that users would have the ability to correlate occurrences of app and services releases with their APM data....
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Private Preview: New Widgets for Visual Studio Team Services
Today we’re releasing a private preview of three new dashboard widgets for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The term “Private Preview” simply means we’re not quite ready to turn these new widgets on...
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The Datasaurus Dozen
There's a reason why data scientists spend so much time exploring data using graphics. Relying only on data summaries like means, variances, and correlations can be dangerous, because wildly different...
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Get the Story Behind the Bing Homepage Image
The Bing homepage image takes you to new places every day. Users tell us how they escape to a far-off vista during their coffee break, and how their children look forward to sitting down each afternoon...
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The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz,...
Previous posts: Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator .NET Framework 4.7, reference documentation,...
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Audit and Optimize your Windows 10 Search Indexing Options
I was getting frustrated with the speed (or lack of) of Windows Search within Windows 10 lately. I went over to my Indexing Options - just hit Start and type Indexing Options - and was surprised to see...
View ArticleAnnouncing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the .NET Framework 4.7. The .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET...
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New Power BI content pack for Azure Enterprise users
We are excited to announce the release of the new Power BI content pack for Azure Enterprise users which enables exploration and analysis of consumption data for enterprise enrollments. The data will...
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