20 Aug 2013
With more faff than I would like and the odd hour here and there spent over the past few months I now have a nice little starter template running on my Mac that uses Xamarin Studio, mono 3, asp.net mvc4 with razor syntax highlighting combined with the lovely ServiceStack api framework, bootstrap 3 and ember.js running!Now i need a nice little side project to build something with it. I have a cunning plan to use...
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20 Aug 2013
So while I use Octopus Deploy and TeamCity for continuous delivery for windows based software, I am now starting to look at chef, puppet and vagrant for deploying non windows stack technology. But if you are a windows shop and want to take the headache out of deploying websites and windows services then do look at Octopus Deploy. It makes deploying 10 or times per day a reality and even a pleasure. Even to the point...
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16 Aug 2013
Amazon add another feature that keeps them so far ahead in cloud computing. Yes the others are catching up but to launch a production site or service I would seriously have to look at the requirements and cost to think about not using them. Shared via feedly // published on // visit site Amazon Web Services launches mobile push notifications Amazon Web Services reinforces its mobile presence by launching Simple Notification Service (SNS),...
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06 Aug 2013
A webhook for our app is on my backlog so these are on my radar. Shared via feedly // published on John Sheehan // visit site A Survey of the Localhost Proxying Landscape In late 2009, soon after coining the term 'webhooks' and starting to evangelize them to the world, Jeff Lindsay ran into a problem. I had another idea while thinking about webhooks. It would be great if I could expose a...
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06 Aug 2013
A fantastic helper for building chrome extensions. Worth a look. Shared via feedly // published on .NET Slave // visit site Build Google Chrome Extensions in Visual Studio A little while back, Sayed Hashimi and I built the Web Developer Checklist Chrome extension as a companion for the website webdevchecklist.com. We built the extension in Visual Studio and quickly realized that we could optimize the development experience substantially by tweaking the build process...
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