September, 2012

I’m excited to announce some great improvements to the Windows Azure Web Sites capability we first introduced earlier this summer .  Today’s improvements include: a new low-cost shared mode scaling option, support for custom domains with shared and reserved mode web-sites using both CNAME and A-Records (the later enabling naked domains), continuous deployment support using both CodePlex and GitHub, and FastCGI extensibility.  All of these improvements are now live in production and available...

With my partner in crime Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP), I’ll be SharePoint 2013 speaker for the Guss (Groupe des Utilisateurs Francophones de SQL Server, Paris) by the end of September in the Microsoft France Offices; for more information click here. Of course, I will share my slidedeck… Blog Post by: sergeluca

Today I’m just advertising another MSDN blog that got circulated my way. This post may only going to make full sense if you’ve heard of OData already. If you’re heard of OData, and have been wondering what a good way to use it from workflow might be, I think you’ll find it good food for thought. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/derrick_vanarnams_blog/archive/2012/09/06/announcing-the-adventureworks-odata-feed-sample.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/derrick_vanarnams_blog/archive/2012/09/12/introducing-the-odata...

I’ve been managing the creation of a new web site (based on SharePoint) that went live today. the technologies used are : Office 365 (SharePoint Online), javascript, css, SharePoint Client Object Model : Blog Post by: sergeluca

I know I haven’t posted much since SharePoint 2013 preview has been made available by Microsoft. I’m currently writing 2 chapters of a SharePoint 2013 book that should be published soon. Chapter 1 : SharePoint 2013 as a Business Intelligence Platform Chapter 2 : SharePoint 2013 : new workflow features. Blog Post by: sergeluca

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Today, I set off in a quest to refresh my memory and hopefully also learn something new about sockets, IP, TCP protocols, and so on. Which is quite a breath of nostalgia taking me back to COSC 231 Data Communications. Isn’t it great how when working with HTTP you can forget about nearly all of the low level stuff? Of course in my current state of C# dependency, the logical way to do this seemed to be to try to write some C# code, so (obviously) what better than to start learning about all the abstractions...

Today I was involved in a playful discussion about what would we do different about Workflow Designer if we could, and the question of ‘what do customers want?’ came up. I think there’s a lot that can change, but one of the ideas I can’t stay away from is improving Flowchart. For instance, searching the forums for threads about FlowDecision turns up a surprising number of posts by people who want to customize FlowDecision and replace it with something a little bit different. So, here are my open...