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
Song of Ice and Fire References other fiction
Whilst reading the Song of Ice and Fire I keep finding references to other fiction.
To start with there are frequent mentions of Snarks (Lewis Carrol).
The singer Marillion is a secondary reference to the Scimarillion.
In the second part of book 5 there is a discussion about ways to kill dragons that seems to refer to The Hobbit.
Also in book 5 part two one of the captured ships is renamed Shrike (Hyperion) .
A blackadder is used as a heraldic device.
There is a pythonesque reference ‘fart in the general direction’ when discussing the unsullied.
There are even start wars quotes: ‘you should let him win’ and ‘you are my only hope’.
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