July 2015

Wicked Cool Excel Function with Blockspring

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

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. You can easily ...

Building Ember Apps on Azure Websites

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

Ember.js is one of the most popular frameworks for the development of ambitious web applications – developed initially as Sproutcore by Apple, it is used today in the Windows and Xbox One store, the Apple Music desktop app, at Netflix, Twitter/Vine, LinkedIn, and many other companies working at the bleeding edge of web app development. An ...

Using camera stream for real time object tracking in Windows apps

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

Summary The imaging and computing capabilities in commodity mobile devices provide exciting possibilities for computer vision based solutions. While some computer vision scenarios are purpose-built from the get-go with mobile device usage in mind, we have also witnessed several scenarios where existing legacy solutions could benefit from ...

Microservice Orchestration with Fleet on Azure

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

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. In this...

Recursive Descent Formula Parsing in C# in .NET

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

Intrinsic to any script-based application is the notion of parsing. In CloudSheet, described in detail in the forthcoming TED Case Study entitled “Massively Scalable Graph-Based Computation in Azure,” a formula parser tokenizes arbitrarily complex Excel-like formulas making subsequent evaluation faster and more efficient. This paper will ...

Processing Time Series Data with HDInsight Storm

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

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. This risk scoring is ...

Prediction of diabetes hypoglycemic events

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

Our customer develops connected blood glucose meters to provide innovative diabetes solutions to its patients. Using this meter, they’re able to store and archive patients’ data for further analysis. Furthermore, their connected device allows them to provide real-time analysis of the measured glucose values and make predictions about an ...

Building a ReactJS Spreadsheet Component

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

During the Microsoft Ventures hackathon in May 2015 it became obvious that one of the startups (CreativeWorx) 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. CreativeWorx is the company behind the CreativeWorx time tracker...

Office Mail App for Rallyteam

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

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. The example shown here gets you up and running quickly with all the parts necessary to build a Mail app for ...

Extracting XML Data from HDFS Sequence Files

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

A partner we work with collects large quantities of diagnostic data from a wide range of devices. Periodically, each device transmits its state as an XML file. These XML files are archived on a Hadoop cluster as compressed sequence files. The goal of the project was to efficiently extract specific attributes and elements from the archive and ...

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Wicked Cool Excel Function with Blockspring

Building Ember Apps on Azure Websites

Using camera stream for real time object tracking in Windows apps

Microservice Orchestration with Fleet on Azure

Recursive Descent Formula Parsing in C# in .NET

Processing Time Series Data with HDInsight Storm

Prediction of diabetes hypoglycemic events

Building a ReactJS Spreadsheet Component

Office Mail App for Rallyteam

Extracting XML Data from HDFS Sequence Files

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