Reading Notes 2013-10-14

You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis' bloggers interest during the week ending on October, 13th.

Cloud

Dev and Test in the Cloud: Explained (Jonathan Rozenblit) – For dev and tests environment, windows Azure is a must.
Quick Script: Copy All Blobs to New Storage Account Using PowerShell (Tyler Doerksen) – Nice and useful script.

jQuery UI Demystified: Part 1 – Since jquery and jqueryUI are so often used use these days, avoid just doing copy-paste. Take few minutes and read this nice tutorials that explains how to use the jqueryUI widget.
Tools: SlowCheetah – XML Transforms (Igor Zalmanovich .NET Architect) – Definitively, a tool to have.
Sorting with LINQ, Dynamically — Visual Studio Magazine (Peter Vogel) – Nice quick tips to sort a grid by any columns dynamically.
HTML5 Sparkline chart for data-intense, small-scale Data Visualization – Evangelism – Great tool, it looks easy to use and powerful enough for many different situations. Looking forward to trying it.
How to Get Started with the Ignite UI Layout Manager – Interesting "UI organizer" and look simple to use.

ASP.NET MVC: Configuring ASP.NET MVC 4 Membership with a SQL CE Database – Nice tutorial that shows how to configure SqlCe to be used as a database for membership.
Creating NONCLUSTERED INDEXES on Massive Tables in Windows Azure SQL Database – Nice post that demystify the indexes and explains why we should use them.
SQL Server Compact 4 desktop app with simple Private Deployment and LINQ to SQL (ErikEJ) – Very complete tutorial that explains an easy deployment with SQLCE.

MASReceipt Validation for Direct Sale Apps (Rick Fillion) – When you have an app on and off the Mac App Store
Xcode Coverage (Cocoanetics) – It’s always all about code testing.
Re-Designing an app for iOS 7 (Holger Riegel & Tobias Kreb) – Because there is a lot of work to jump to iOS7)
Multitasking in iOS 7 (David Caunt) – New thing you can do in the background

Why You Should Be Able to Work from Home – Interesting thoughts about working from home and how it would be good for you, and your work.
Stop asking people what they think! (and start watching what they do) – I agree. How many times did I ear don't give what the clients asks but what they needs.
Have you seen Google Trekker? (BaffinPaddler) – Wow! Google always found a new way to impress me.

These posts are from François Boucher, Sébastien Leclerc and are also posted on http://www.frankysnotes.com/2013/10/reading-notes-111.html.