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.NET and Docker
.NET and .NET Core (and Windows!) have been getting better and better with Docker. I run Docker for Windows as it supports both Linux Containers and Windows Containers. They have both a Stable and Edge...
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Building and Deploying a Java Application to Oracle WebLogic Server Running...
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java...
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Mobile work item form general availability
We are very excited to announce the general availability of the mobile work item form and the mobile My work items page in Visual Studio Team Services. We now have a full end-to-end experience to find...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: May 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. Many interesting presentations recorded at the R/Finance 2017 conference in Chicago are now available to...
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Using color fonts for beautiful text and icons
In this post, we’ll introduce you to a text technology called color fonts. We’ll discuss what color fonts are, when they can be useful and how to use them in your Windows 10 apps. What are color fonts?...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions
Previous posts: Open XML SDK, Adventure Time .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King On .NET: Brett Morrison During the...
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Spark Connector for #CosmosDB – seamless interaction with...
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Spark connector for Azure Cosmos DB is now truly multi-model! As noted in our recent announcement Azure Cosmos DB: The industry’s first globally-distributed,...
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RetroPie and X-Arcade Tankstick – The perfect Retro Arcade (plus...
Eight years ago I stumbled on the husk of an old arcade cabinet and along with my buddy John Batdorf, proceeded to reclaim the cabinet, refinish, paint, and turn it into a proper MAME (Multi-Arcade...
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Forrester report: What tech leaders are saying about cloud adoption
If your CEO asked about your progress moving to the cloud compared to other companies, would you know the answer? The "Benchmark Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption" report, published by Forrester Research,...
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New sample model for Azure Analysis Services
In April we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern...
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#FuelMyAwesome Asks: What Gets You In the Code Zone?
#FuelMyAwesome is a salute to coding and creating. It’s a celebration of the awesome work you do, and the awesome ways you do it. A chance for us to recognize those of you who put all you’ve got into...
View ArticlePerformance Improvements in .NET Core
There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects...
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How to create dot-density maps in R
Choropleths are a common approach to visualizing data on geographic maps. But choropleths — by design or necessity — aggregate individual data points into a single geographic region (like a country or...
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Azure #CosmosDB: Case study around RU/min with the Universal Store Team
Karthik Tunga Gopinath, from the Universal Store Team at Microsoft, leveraged RU/min to optimize the entire workload provisioning with Azure Cosmos DB. He is sharing his experience on this blog. The...
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Announcing Storage Service Encryption with Customer Managed Keys limited preview
Today, we are excited to announce the Preview of Azure Storage Service Encryption with Customer Managed Keys integrated with Azure Key Vault for Azure Blob Storage. Azure customers already benefit from...
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Optimizing Performance of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with SentryOne
There is constant talk about big data; endless marketing decks, whitepapers, and blog posts about how fast data is multiplying on-premise and in the cloud. In many cases, familiar database...
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Running OpenBSD on Azure
As you know, Microsoft has officially supported FreeBSD virtual machine (VM) running on Azure since 2014 and last year Microsoft announced the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image in...
View ArticleTFS 2017 Update 2 RC1 is now available
Yesterday, we released the first release candidate for TFS 2017 Update 2 (TFS 2017.2). This is a “go-live” release and is ready to be used in production environments. We’ve already installed it on 2...
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Trying .NET Core on Linux with just a tarball (without apt-get)
There's a great post on the .NET Blog about the crazy Performance Improvements in .NET Core that ended up on Hacker News. The top comment on HN is a great one that points out that the http://dot.net...
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What does an Agile/DevOps organization look like?
I want to share an experience that highlights why I am so proud of the organization I work in. The experience is expressed in the form of an email thread that I had this week. Times/timezones are a...
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