You may have questions like these – What are my NoSQL options in Windows Azure? Can I run MongoDB on linux on Windows Azure? Why would I want to do that? Which one of the NoSQL options are available as managed services? Are all kinds of NoSQL databases available? Are there any limitations? What are options for data analytics?
Or may be you have questions like these – Is it true that NoSQL databases don’t have schema? Do they have indexes? What about Views? Should I choose MongoDB or Redis? What is eventual consistency?
In this presentation, you will learn all about NoSQL technologies in Windows Azure Cloud Platform. And you will get get answers to questions like these.
Carolina Code Camp – 2014
Announcing CodeDemo
It is a challenge to use code snippets in presentations, demos and live coding sessions. I have struggled with this and seen many speakers jumping through hoops to assimilate code snippets in their demos. I had to create something to ease this pain.
Today, I am announcing the general availability of CodeDemo. A tool for instructors, presenters and speakers who create instructional demos, record screen-casts or do live presentations. CodeDemo pastes code snippets into your favorite IDE without getting in your way.
I decided not to open-source CodeDemo to challenge myself to an exercise in commercialization. I decided to learn about entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, licensing and other aspects of software commercialization. It has been an MBA’s worth of education so far. This journey is not over yet. I am taking the Lean approach of creating a Minimum Viable Product. The future of CodeDemo, its feature set and the price, will be shaped by the traction it gets in the market, the feedback from the customers as well as patterns of use reported by the users.
Head over to http://codedemo.net to grab a copy for yourself. Let me know if find it useful – I will be very excited to hear from you.
Here is a quick 2 minute introduction to CodeDemo :
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Creating Windows 8 applications with MVVM
TRINUG January Main Meeting
You will learn how to use MVVM in your own Windows 8 application – desktop/mobile
You will learn MVVM fundamentals. You will see the contrast between an MVVM application and a non-MVVM application.
Using Layer Diagrams – Keeping your MVVM code from turning into spaghetti
Raleigh Code Camp 2013 is wrapping up this afternoon. The venue and the crowd was phenomenal. I really enjoyed presenting “Using Layer Diagrams – Keeping your MVVM code from turning into spaghetti”. Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation.
John Sonmez, Our Keynote Speaker, made my day by accepting my request to attend my presentation. It was awesome to have him in the audience and to get feedback from him!
I did not get the time to complete the raffle at the end of the presentation. But the folks who won the raffle should be getting an email from me with instructions to download their free license of CodeDemo (Professional).
The presentation slides can be downloaded from here : download.
NCDevCon 2013 Schedule
NCDevCon 2013 (tentative) session schedule is up. The topics seem quite interesting and varied : From “Web Penetration and Hacking Tools” (David Epler) to “Better UI/UX with Bootstrap : A Developer’s Primer” (Steve Keator) to “Getting Control of Your Asynchronous JavaScript” (Bucky Schwarz).
I am picking the sessions to attend. Looks like I will be able attend around 11 sessions in 2 days, if that is all I do while I am there. Sometimes, there are good reasons to not attend a session :
- The conferences are for networking as well as for learning. If I strike an interesting conversation with someone, I will not hesitate to skip a session.
- Sometimes, an impromptu group discussion sparks wonderful ideas and accelerate a thought process in a way which is unlikely to happen in a one-way presentation. If I am in such a discussion, I will gladly forego the opportunity to attend the next session.
- A follow-on discussion after a session, either with the presenter or with other attendee(s) may derail my planned schedule.
Here is my pick of sessions (click the picture to enlarge):
Green highlights are the sessions I don’t want to miss.
Red/pink highlights are the sessions I will most likely not attend due to one of these reasons :
- I have no interest in the topic.
- I already know the subject to the extent that attending a (seemingly) introductory session is not a valuable use of my time. After all, I can only attend one session out of five in a time-slot.
- The session description is too vague for me to make a decision at the moment and there is another session in that timeslot that I am very keen on attending.
Yellow highlights are the sessions that I can’t make up my mind on. Any recommendations?
Which sessions are you attending?
DQS – Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012
TRINUG – Data SIG, July 2013
SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) is a knowledge-driven data quality product. DQS enables you to build a knowledge base and use it to perform a variety of critical data quality tasks, including correction, enrichment, standardization, and de-duplication of your data.