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Let’s make some hay!
Spring is hay season and it puts a significant strain on my managing the balance between work and farm. For the past several weeks, I’ve been stealing away every spare minute I can to cut, rake, bale...
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Run massive parallel R jobs cheaply with updated doAzureParallel package
At the EARL conference in San Francisco this week, JS Tan from Microsoft gave an update (PDF slides here) on the doAzureParallel package . As we've noted here before, this package allows you to easily...
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Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service
In this blog post I will show you how to setup continuous delivery of a dockerized app by using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to a Kubernetes cluster running in ACS. Azure Container Service (ACS)...
View ArticleSchedule for useR!2017 now available
The full schedule of talks for useR!2017, the global R user conference, has now been posted. The conference will feature 16 tutorials, 6 keynotes, 141 full talks, and 86 lightning talks starting on...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Subway maps to scale
Many subway maps are masterpieces of information design, but inevitably make compromises in geographic fidelity for clarity. Inspired by a viral post on Reddit, you can now find a collection of subway...
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LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core – Database Entity Modeling with any ORM
There's opinionated frameworks, and then there's opinionated frameworks that also respect your opinion. LLBLGen is one of those. For many years it's been a great entity modeling tool as well as an...
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Microsoft Announces Virtual Event: Azure OpenDev on June 21st
Whether it is to drive agility, develop new skills, or engage and scale through community, open source is at the core of how developers deliver value in a cloud world. I can clearly see this...
View ArticleEvent Hubs Auto-Inflate, take control of your scale
Azure Event Hubs is a hyper-scalable telemetry ingestion service that can ingest millions of events per second. It gives a distributed streaming platform with low latency and configurable time...
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.NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences
A few of us just went to a smaller .NET conference in Portland, called .NET Fringe. For me, it was the third time I attended .NET Fringe. I’ve realized that this conference has gained a special place...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.4 RC
Today we’re releasing our RC of TypeScript 2.4. To get started with the latest stable version of TypeScript, you can grab it through NuGet, or use the following command with npm: npm install -g...
View ArticleInterfacing with APIs using R: the basics
While R (and its package ecosystem) provides a wealth of functions for querying and analyzing data, in our cloud-enabled world there's now a plethora of online services with APIs you can use to augment...
View Article.NET Core 2 and Visual Studio 2017 Preview 2
Visual Studio 2017 Preview 2 was recently released which includes .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1, our latest production releases of .NET Core. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 SDK to develop...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
Previous posts: On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions Open XML SDK, Adventure Time .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld On .NET: Mattias Karlsson – Cake During the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Storage Service Encryption for Azure Managed Disks
We announced general availability of Managed Disks in February 2017. Today, we are excited to announce Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) for Managed Disks. SSE provides encryption-at-rest and...
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Embed Video Indexer insights in your website
Video Indexer embeddable widgets is a great way to start adding AI insights to your videos. Whether you want to add deep search ability to your published videos or let your users be more engaged with...
View ArticleAccelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 3
At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods – the...
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New Azure VPN Gateways now 6x faster
Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve your Azure VPN experience, we are introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a better...
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Invite guest users to your Azure Analysis Services by using B2B
Azure Analysis Services integrates with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to allow users within an AAD tenant to log into a server. Customers have asked for the ability to allow users from other...
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Inogic: Improving business processes with location intelligence
Microsoft ISV Partner, Inogic, specializes in developing solutions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Their mapping solution and flagship product, Maplytics™, is powered by Bing Maps and allows...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
Previous posts: On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions Open XML SDK, Adventure Time .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld On .NET: Mattias Karlsson – Cake During the...
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