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Archive for the ‘Cloud Development’ Category

Sometimes clouds vaporise: the Docker Cloud shuts down in ~8 weeks.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26

From [WayBackDocker – Docker Cloud Migration Notification and FAQs:

The services on Docker Cloud that provide application, node, and swarm cluster management will be shutting down on May 21.

If you do not migrate by May 21, your applications running on the Docker node cluster management service will cease to operate.

Swarms will continue to function; however, if you do not retrieve your SSH keys for the Swarms being managed by our swarm cluster management service, you will be unable to access your swarms using your Docker ID. For instructions on how to retrieve and access your Swarms with SSH keys, please refer to the Docker docs.

So soon, no more [WayBack] Docker Cloud – Build, Ship and Run any App, Anywhere.

Remember: still the cloud is other peoples computers, so be sure you can move when needed.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Development, Containers, Development, Docker, Infrastructure, Power User | Leave a Comment »

api-ai-interface I started playing with API.AI a while ago (because of Googl…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Time to look back to see how this has evolved: [WayBack] api-ai-interface – I started playing with API.AI a while ago (because of Google Actions), and thought it would be nice to have an easy way to include a c… – Gerwin Sturm – Google+

References:

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud Development, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Get a Windows 10 development environment – Windows app development

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/16

When you own the full stack:

virtual machine (Build 201602)

These installs contain:

  • Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, Version 1511
  • Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 1
  • Windows developer SDK and tools (Build 10586)
  • Windows IoT Core SDK and Raspberry Pi 2 (Build 10586.0.151029-1700)
  • Windows IoT Core project templates (Version 1.0)
  • Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (Build 2.8.2)
  • Windows Bridge for iOS (Build 0.1.0.160114)
  • Windows UWP samples (Build 2.0.4)Windows Bridge for iOS samples

The VMware VM link redirects to https://windowsdeveloper.azureedge.net/vm-1602/Win10Eval_1602_VMware.zip

Also available for Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Parallels

–jeroen

Source: Get a Windows 10 development environment – Windows app development

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Cloud Development, Development, Hardware Development, Raspberry Pi, Software Development, VB.NET, VB.NET 14.0, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/16

Interesting:

There is no extra charge for use of BitTorrent with Amazon S3. Data transfer via the BitTorrent protocol is metered at the same rate as client/server delivery. To be precise, whenever a downloading BitTorrent client requests a “piece” of an object from the…

Note

You can get torrent only for objects that are less than 5 GB in size.

via Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service.

–jeroen

via Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers..

Posted in Amazon S3, Cloud Apps, Cloud Development, Development, Internet, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Danny Thorpe active on various Bitcoin reposiories – via: Best C# Article of October 2014 Nicolas Dorier – NBitcoin : Build Them All…

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/01

Via Best C# Article of October 2014 Nicolas Dorier – NBitcoin I learned that dthorpe (yes, that is indeed Danny Thorpe many people know him from the Delphi, C# and Google world) is active as Contributors to NicolasDorier/NBitcoin and on quite some Bitcoin related repositories.

When we met last summer, he was visiting the Bitcoin 2014 conference in Amsterdam. It is really good to see his activity, and I really hope his Opex.io venture (see his LinkedIn profile) will take off, as his ideas are sound.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Bitcoin, C#, Cryptocurrency, Delphi, Development, History, Power User, Software Development, Windows Azure | 3 Comments »

Tim Anderson on Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections…

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/14

Very nice summary: Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections….

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Cloud Development, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Must Read: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/10

Scott Hanselman wrote a Must Read post on Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense?

The first comment says it all:

Nuts, maybe marketing should put out more stuff like this. I have looked at Azure in the past and learned more from this post than then reading through all the pages of pricing on the Azure site. Thanks

Be sure to also read the comments, for instance this one, as they cover some more in depth explanation.

–jeroen

via: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? – Scott Hanselman.

Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Ye Olde Automated 16TB Windows Azure Virtual Machine demo – Team Individualism – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/02

For my link archive: PowerShell Scripts to create VMs with large disks.

Ye Olde Automated 16TB Windows Azure Virtual Machine demo – Team Individualism – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud Development, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, Software Development, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Time for a golden oldie: Pragmatic Software Development Tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/09

From the century start era of The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Pragmatic Programmer, a – still valid – list of Pragmatic Software Development Tips.

From Care About Your Craft, via DRY, Some Things Are Better Done than DescribedKeep Knowledge in Plain Text, Work With a User to Think Like a User, Find the Box, and many others till Sign Your Work.

–jeroen

via: The Pragmatic Bookshelf | List of Tips.

Posted in .NET, C++, Cloud Development, COBOL, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, Fortran, iSeries, Java, Pascal, RegEx, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 3 Comments »

Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft PDC 2010 sessions on your PC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/28

Dang; I thought this had long left the posting queue, but somehow it ended in the drafts (:

Since then, many more event videos made it to Channel 9, including Build 2011, and TechDays 2012.

Anyway, here it is:

Microsoft’s PDC 2010 was held at the end of October 2010 in Redmond, WA, USA.

For the people that could not attend, it is very nice to view the sessions using the PDC10 player (it seems still people didn’t learn and start stripping the century parts from years again!).

Even if you are not using Visual Studio, .NET Azure or other Microsoft Technologies, there are a lot of interesting sessions showing the directions that Microsoft is taking.
Comparing that to what you do today is always a good thing to do: it helps you reflect, an important part of your personal development.

A few things I found interesting (in no particular order):

  • Asynchrony support in C# 5 and VB.NET 11 based on the Task Parallel Library
  • The choice to favour HTML 5 over SilverLight, even though Internet Explorer 9 and Microsoft’s HTML 5 authoring/development tools are far from ready
  • Azure reporting: is reporting the next big thing on clouds?
  • Offline versus online in the cloud world
  • NuPack – does it bring package management to the same level as Ruby or *nix?
  • XNA for XBox, Windows and Windows Phone

Enjoy!

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Channel9, Cloud Development, Database Development, Delphi, Development, HTML, HTML5, Mobile Development, SilverLight, SocialMedia, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Web Development, Windows Azure, Windows Phone Development, XNA | 2 Comments »