July 2015

Wicked Cool Excel Function with Blockspring

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Anthony Turner

A small Y Combinator startup is trying to completely remove all constraints for functions in spreadsheets: It enables users to create and share custom functions for Google Sheets and Office in Node.js, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby, running complex calculations in the cloud and pushing the results to your spreadsheet.

Building Ember Apps on Azure Websites

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Anthony Turner

How to deploy Ember CLI apps automatically to Azure Web Apps, and how we built a small automation tool.

Using camera stream for real time object tracking in Windows apps

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Petro Soininen

Findings from a pilot project where we identified reusable patterns, and ways to avoid common pitfalls when implementing object detection and tracking in Windows apps.

Microservice Orchestration with Fleet on Azure

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Anthony Turner

Micro-service architecture, the concept of providing a large scale service as a collection of small, highly available services is becoming increasingly popular in today's modern cloud service deployments. However, with the rise of Docker and other containerization and orchestration technologies, it can be difficult to get started.

Recursive Descent Formula Parsing in C# in .NET

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Anthony Turner

Creating a parser to tokenize arbitrarily complex Excel-like formulas of differing types to enable rapid and accurate evaluation.

Processing Time Series Data with HDInsight Storm

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Tim Park

At Microsoft, we are working with a number of car manufacturers on processing telemetry streams. One of the key business scenarios for the incoming real-time car telemetry is to offer real-time driver risk scoring for end user driving guidance applications, fleet administration, and usage-based insurance scenarios.

Prediction of diabetes hypoglycemic events

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Beat Schwegler

Creating a Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (MAML) model which predicts diabetics' hypoglycemic events based on blood glucose measurements alone.

Building a ReactJS Spreadsheet Component

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Anthony Turner

During the Microsoft Ventures hackathon in May 2015 it became obvious that one of the startups required a standalone Excel-like spreadsheet component for the web. This post describes the resulting React component, how it was built, and how it can be used today.

Office Mail App for Rallyteam

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Shawn Cicoria

The Microsoft Office Platform is focused on enhancing the collaboration experience. This case study introduces you to Mail apps for Outlook and the ease of building, integrating, and enhancing the collaboration experience for users.