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Free ebook: Managing Agile Open-Source Software Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Online

April 22, 2015 Apr 22, 2015 04/22/15

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Agile, Open-Source, and Visual Studio Online are all topics that quickly peak the interest of modern developers. This month, Microsoft Press announced a new ebook, freely available for download, from some of the leading minds in this space. The ALM Rangers are a special group for several reasons. Not only are they innovative and focused on...

Why performance is critical in the Health Insurance Industry

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15

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Sujith Nair, Senior Application Development Manager, shares his experiences working with a healthcare customer and the performance challenges common during open enrollment season. He also discusses how customers could use Azure, or the Microsoft Cloud, to manage such bursting compute scenarios. What are enrollment cut-off dates in ...

DevOps – Bridging the gap between development and deployment

March 25, 2015 Mar 25, 2015 03/25/15

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Senior Application Development Manager, Dave Harrison, gives us his perspective on how DevOps can round out your application lifecycle management (ALM) process by bringing together developers and operations teams to simplify and streamline deployment and production support. A few years ago I remember leaning back in my office chair and ...

How to choose the Mobile Strategy that best suits your company

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15

Pam Lahoud

A lot of companies that are trying to adapt to the proliferation of mobile devices targeting different platforms have the following question on their mind today: What is the Mobile Strategy that best suits my company? This post by Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh outlines some of the things to consider when choosing the strategy that ...

Windows 10 developer tooling is now available to Windows Insiders!

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15

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Windows 10 SDK, tools, and samples were released to the Windows Insiders Program website today! Be sure and start with Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and the instructions on the dev center: http://dev.windows.com/en-US/windows-10-developer-preview-tools. Installation order is important in these pre-release kits. (image) For additional ...

Using Azure AD to authorize Service Bus requests

February 18, 2015 Feb 18, 2015 02/18/15

Pam Lahoud

Most Service Bus examples use symmetric keys directly in applications needing access to the Service Bus, usually as part of the connection string. That approach does not work so well with widely distributed applications, e.g. desktop or mobile apps. In the latest post from his blog, Marius Rochon gives an example of how to use Azure ...

Microsoft HoloLens and the Internet of Things. Two sides of the same coin?

February 9, 2015 Feb 9, 2015 02/9/15

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Mark Taylor, Premier Services Senior Consultant and David S. Lipien, Director in Microsoft’s Premier Services present a 3 part installment on the internet of things (IoT). Augmented reality brings the software world into the real world enabling mind bending experiences. The Internet of Things brings the everyday world into the world...

Should an application handle user credentials?

January 20, 2015 Jan 20, 2015 01/20/15

Pam Lahoud

With development of standard authentication protocols like WS-federation, SAML and OAuth, there should be very few situations where a web application has to implement its own storage and logic for handling user credentials. This blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon enumerates the benefits of using out-of-the-box authentication ...

Why you are failing with Waterfall – Consider Agile and Scrum

November 24, 2014 Nov 24, 2014 11/24/14

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Rick McGuire, Senior Application Development Manager, shares what many development teams are discovering in their effort to build better software: Agile has many advantages over traditional waterfall methodologies. Surprisingly there are still a lot of development teams clinging to the old Waterfall methodology for software ...

The Value of an ADM

November 20, 2014 Nov 20, 2014 11/20/14

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Rich Maines, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses how a strategic ADM relationship translates into business value for customers. What if you could have your own trusted advisor within Microsoft, a resource whose primary responsibility is to maximize the business value of your investments in Microsoft technologies? The ...

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