Neil From Time Warner Cable Customer Service Thinks The Merger Is Dead April 24, 2015 With reports that the Comcast merger is dead, we went straight to the source for comment: customer service. We’re still waiting on a straight answer, and might have to be put through to a different department. Comcast is planning to drop its merger plans with Time Warner, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Neither… Read More
Diagnose and Debug your applications in depth with the Support Portal April 24, 2015 Join your guide?Cory Fowler?as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week, Cory is joined by Yochay Kiriaty?a PM on the Websites team. Yochay demonstrates the second best worst kept secret in Azure Websites, the Support Portal. The Support portal is a Site Extension which provides a… Read More
Amazon Finally Reveals The Size Of Its Massive Cloud Computing Business April 24, 2015 “Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast — in fact it’s accelerating.” Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Sajjad Hussain / Getty Images The public finally knows a little more about Amazon's 9 year old cloud computing businesss Amazon Web Services. The company for the first time broke out revenue… Read More
Instrumenting your Web API using Application Insights with Victor Mushkatin April 24, 2015 Scott talks to?Victor Mushkatin from the?Application Insights?team. They create a new Web API application to deploy to Azure, but they instrument that all with Application Insights. Victor show?us how to instrumental the ASP.NET Web API and hook it?directly into Application Insights to get?use amounts of context. It’s hugely useful when?trying to understand?production applications in the… Read More
Big Layoffs At BitTorrent April 24, 2015 The company behind the revolutionary file-sharing protocol sacks dozens of employees. Wikimedia Commons They're swinging the axe over at BitTorrent. On Thursday the pioneering file-sharing company laid off dozens of workers as part of an effort to streamline business operations and narrow its focus to a smaller suite of products. Multiple sources close to BitTorrent… Read More
Hanselminutes on 9 – Bill Steele talks about 3D Printing with Makerbot Replicators and more April 24, 2015 I was at CodeMash and talked to Bill Steele about 3D printing. He had a few 3D printers at the event, even one that he’d printed with another 3D printer!? If you haven’t seen a 3D printer in person, you really need to check it out. It’s amazing. In this video Bill not only explains… Read More
App Hack Monday #9: Universal apps using C# April 24, 2015 This week?Martin Beeby?catches up with Mike Taulty?about building Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps using the Universal Project template. Source link… Read More
DocumentDB General Availability and What's New! April 24, 2015 This week Scott welcomes Ryan CrawCour back to the Data Exposed show and he and Scott do the “GA Happy Dance”. Ryan is a Senior Program Manager for Azure ?DocumentDB on the?Data Platform?Group at Microsoft and his first video is one of the highest rated and most watched on Data Exposed. So this video is… Read More
A Peek of the PHP Ecosystem Today April 24, 2015 Join your guide?Cory Fowler?as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week Cory is joined by Pierre Joye, from the Open Source Technology Center at Microsoft, to talk about the current state of the PHP Ecosystem. There are many different projects in PHP which are making news,… Read More
Azure PowerShell 101 – Managing the Cloud from the Command Line April 24, 2015 In this video, Scott learns from Guang Yang about how to manage Azure from the PowerShell command line! We learn how to manage multiple?accounts and subscriptions, and access any?Azure resource. Source link… Read More