I hadn’t really been paying attention to the popularity of browsers a whole lot for the last few months until this week as I was teaching HTML5 and the usage stats influence what is usable and what not. Sure I heard some time ago that Chrome was larger then IE but as most of these statistics are more about politics then anything else I tend to ignore them and just check some sites I know are producing real numbers for me. And the best I know way is to compare Google Analytics on some large sites...

This past week I’ve been working on a little project – amazing how less email equates to more time for other endeavors – and I was surprised when I received a DataServiceQueryException when querying table storage in the local storage emulator. I was querying based on partition and row keys and, if no data matched [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Last week the question of HTML5 and sensors came up. This wasn’t really strange as we where talking about the HTML5 GeoLocation features and using the, optional, GPS is just one device or sensor you might want to use. It turns out the W3C has a Device APIs Working Group working on this problem. They are working on a whole range of interesting devices like: Battery Status API Contacts API HTML Media Capture Media Capture API Network Information API Sensor API Vibration API Calendar API MediaStream...

I’ll be at DevCamp:Cloud this Friday at the UC Irvine campus. The L.A. event was sold out, and most stayed all day. Lots of good info. See you there? Register here at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032507377&Culture=en-US Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

How to configure a clustered MSMQ for WCF services with a netMsmqBinding.