http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingWindowsAzureWebJobs.aspx
This is a simple technique for scaling up command line apps to cloud scale.
Month: January 2014
PowerShell Web Access
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831611.aspx
This is a tool for creating a web site that allows powershell to be used from any browser.
You can restrict who calls what, and what can be called.
Surround With Visual Studio Shortcuts
Free Powershell Books
http://powershell.org/wp/?s=secrets+of+remoting
Largley these are git based files.
Useful Regular Azure Videos
Updates to the Azure Storage SDK
Here is a great article on this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe/Whats-new-in-the-Service-Bus-NET-SDK-20/
Top and Tail in Powershell
Cool powershell trick:
“a,b,c” -split “,” | select -First 1 -Last 1
You can filter a list down to the first and last items in one line.
Constrained Thread Pools
How to: Create a Task Scheduler That Limits Concurrency
Azure Documentation Is Flawed
This is a useful site for azure table service documentation:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/table-services/
It is a good starting point but does have problems.
The update or insert example will fail if the item does not exist.
The example appears to show that a retrieve operation will provide an empty object if the item is not found.
This is not the case. You simply need to create an entity and treat it like the insert example.
Dumb Tweet Of The Day
Owing to congestion caused by earlier delays train services via London Bridge are now running normally. #southeastern
— Southeastern (@Se_Railway) January 7, 2014
Developer Rants 