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Execute Code On-Demand with Azure Functions

At the recently concluded Build Conference, the Microsoft Azure team announced the preview of Functions, an app service that allows you to execute code on demand. Azure Functions is event-driven

Rational Tech Adoption

Many organizations have a hard time making decisions about adopting new technologies. There are two prominent camps. The early adopters will jump at any new technology and push towards integrating

Minimizing All Open Windows

It is quite easy to minimize all currently opened windows with C#. All you need to know is a few APIs: FindWindowSendMessageTimeout Here is a small example: public partial class

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code 1.0

Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s free, lightweight, cross-platform text editor, has officially reached 1.0 status. According to Microsoft, more than 2 million people have tried Visual Studio Code since its first

Exploring Extreme Programming

Before the Agile Manifesto?there was Extreme Programming. I discovered it through the http://c2.com wiki???the first wiki and was instantly impressed. Extreme programming is indeed the extreme. There are values such

React Native Comes to Windows

Many in the mobile development industry use Facebook’s React Native framework to build user interfaces for Android and iOS apps; now React Native is coming to Windows 10 and Tizen.

LinkedIn Unveils Dr. Elephant Hadoop Tuning Tool

LinkedIn has released Dr. Elephant, an internally developed tool for tuning Hadoop and Spark, under an open source license. “At LinkedIn, we made it compulsory for the developers to use

IDC: Cloud Computing Spending to Increase 18.9% in 2016

Market research firm IDC is forecasting that enterprise spending on cloud computing infrastructure spending will climb 18.9 percent to reach $38.2 billion this year. Private cloud infrastructure sales will likely

Prevent Shutdown from a C# App

It is possible to prevent a system shutdown from within your C# apps. Basically the premise is as follows: Override the WndProc event so that when a system shutdown event

How the GPL Lost the Open Source Battle

In this article I’ll cover the history of software from a social and legal perspective. It is an amazing story that is still unfolding today. You will learn about software

Google Releases Cloud Datastore API

Google has launched a new cross-platform API for its Cloud Datastore cloud-based NoSQL database. According to the company, the new API will improve performance and reliability for applications accessing Cloud

IBM, SAP Partner on Cognitive, Cloud Computing

IBM and SAP have announced that they have a new partnership focused on integrating their cognitive computing technology and cloud computing platforms. The two companies have worked together in the

SmartBear’s TestLeft Creates Tests Within IDEs

Development tool vendor SmartBear Software has released a new test automation solution it calls TestLeft. It allows enterprise application development teams to create tests within their integrated development environments (IDEs),

Black box vs. White box Testing

When building, developing and troubleshooting complex systems everybody agrees that modularity is the way to go. Different parts or components need to interact only through well-defined interfaces. This way the

White House Proposal Promotes Open Source Software

The White House has published a new proposal titled “Federal Source Code Policy ? Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software,” which calls on government agencies

Importing Data from Excel into SQL Server

A very quick way to import data from Excel into SQL Server through code is to execute the following query: SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0′,’Excel 12.0;Database=C:ExcelFileToImport.xlsx’, [SheetWhereDataIsLocated$]) This is known as

Microsoft Adds New Features to Graph

During last week’s Build 2016 development conference, Microsoft unveiled an updated version of Graph (formerly the Office 365 Unified API) that will make it easier to build apps that utilize

Xamarin Comes to Visual Studio

At the second day of the Build 2016 development conference, the biggest news was that Microsoft is open-sourcing the Xamarin mobile development platform and integrating the tool into its Visual