Suggestion of the week
- UNIT of Work Design Pattern (Shivprasad koirala) - Good post that explains an important design pattern.
Cloud
- **Easy Background Processing with WebAPI and Windows Azure (Erez Harari) - Great tutorial that gets you ready to make your apps.
- Big Data – Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data – Day 11 of 21 (Pinal Dave) - Interesting post about Big Data history.
- CSI: Re-enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell after you've blocked it with your own firewall rule (Scott Hanselman) - Very useful tips.
- Winsmarts.com (Sahil Malik) - Short post about how to get setup and enjoy Azure PowerShell.
- Using web.config transforms with NLog configuration - | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog - Nice post that explains how to configure our config file so it will work with transform, NLog and Azure.
- Developing Windows Azure Mobile Services server-side - Very complete tutorial with a lot of details that cover also tests.
- Microsoft SQL Server Hybrid Cloud Blog Series (Madhan_Arumugam_Ramakrishnan) - A lot of good article references.
Programming
- **Time Saving Tips to Get Your Windows Phone App Started (Lori Lalonde) - Useful post that quickly summarizes all the options you have when starting a new phone project.
- IEnumerable VS IQueryable (More..) - Nice quick post that explains clearly with sample two often mismatch classes.
- Var VS IEnumerable (More..) - Nice post that shows some subtile differences that could have an unexpected impact.
- Difference betweeen ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC (Imran Abdul Ghani) - Aaah! Loud and clear.
- Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework (asp.net) - You probably eared about the brand new Visual Studio 2013, but to know what new in it, this is the post to read.
Miscellaneous
- Enterprise Architecture: Reflections on My Journey of Becoming A Systems Thinking Enterprise Architect (Alan Hakimi) - I liked this post where the author share is experience on how he became an architect.