Category Archives: .NET

Build Conference 2020

Posted on May 25, 2020 by sujatad

I was reading about the 2020 Build Conference which for the first time was completely virtual. Can read more the details here…

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Switching to working virtually…

Posted on May 23, 2020 by sujatad

It’s been about a month and half nearly two months now of working completely virtual and staying away from the office due to Covid19. There were some initial bumps, such as, dropped vpn connections or capacity overload home wifi connectivity issues missing having two monitors issues with team collaboration tools missed meeting by team members […]

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Liveshare

Posted on December 10, 2017 by sujatad

LiveShare allows developers collaborate, with cloning a repository. Live Share allows you to share the context of the code, so you get instant, bidirectional collaboration. Debugging is cool as Microsoft puts it – Collaborative debugging goes further, allowing you and your teammate to independently inspect objects using debugging features like hovers, locals and watches, the […]

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Azure updates from Build Conference

Posted on June 18, 2017 by sujatad

Am reviewing the Azure updates announced at the Build Conference. There’s a preview of Cloud Shell, available here…… Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. More info […]

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Microsoft Azure contest

Posted on June 9, 2017 by sujatad

Came across this contest in my twitter feed, #FuelMyAwesome Microsoft wants to know What Gets You In the Code Zone? What fuels your awesome? What favorite snack or music or ritual gets you cranking out that beautiful code? It’s easy to let us know, and there are prizes involved. Just jump on Twitter and tweet […]

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MicroServices

Posted on May 14, 2017 by sujatad

Over the years, applications can keep growing, as features get added, to the point that they become quite difficult to manage, and any new change requires a lot of resources both time and people to make that change. The standard design pattern of choice seems to be a monolithic architecture where the components are all […]

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Choosing the right Javascript framework

Posted on August 9, 2016 by sujatad

Every organization goes through a cycle of reviewing and updating applications that have become dated and harder to maintain. There are many new competing technologies for building responsive web applications, both on the client and server side. A number of javascript frameworks are open source and free, and primarily for building Single Page Applications. Looking […]

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.NET Core is now open source

Posted on November 12, 2014 by sujatad

Microsoft just announced that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries. .NET Core is a modular development stack that is the foundation of all future .NET platforms It’s already used by ASP.NET 5 and .NET Native. As a .NET developer one was able to build & run […]

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Managing teams

Posted on July 4, 2014 by sujatad

Scrum teams are supposed to be self-managing and course correct as needed based on what is learnt from sprint retrospectives. The two leadership roles in scrum are those of the product owner who defines the work to which the team commits and you have the scrum master who mentors and coaches the team into becoming […]

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Should we switch to React?

Posted on June 20, 2014 by sujatad

We have been using Angular for a while now, but when ever another Javascript framework such as React comes along and acquires popularity then everyone gets interested particularly when there’s hype surrounding the new framework, and we’re about to switch from AngularJS to Angular 2. Of course a number of factors come into play while […]