Badges? If You’re An MCSD Or MCSE, You’ll Soon Have Stinkin’ Badges
Microsoft is throwing out its current technical certification program, with a new, badges-based, performance-evaluated system for MCSE and MCSD certifications.
Blue Monday: Powershell Hotfix Released For Resource Manager Storage Commands
A “new old” version of Powershell restores pre-version 1.4 signatures to Resource Manager Storage cmdlets; PHP updates are complete; Event Hubs Archive is in public preview. …
Blue Monday: Two New UK Regions Generally Available
Cardiff and London host two generally available datacenters; DevTest Labs can now warn users of impending VM shutdowns. …
Serving Static Content From Azure Storage: Content Delivery Network Setup
Creating an Azure CDN, preparing Azure Storage block blobs for it, and managing your Storage-based CDN endpoint.
Serving Static Content From Azure Storage: Content Delivery Networks Overview
An overview of the content delivery network options available for optimal serving of Azure Storage blobs.
Blue Monday: MySQL Native In Web Apps; Use JSON In SQL Server
Web App native MySQL instances are in public preview; use JSON to CRUD your Azure SQL Sever records …
Serving Static Files From Azure Storage: CORS Rules
If you’re going to call Azure Storage blobs from AJAX, you may need to set Cross Origin Resource Sharing rules on your account.
Serving Static Content From Azure Storage: Getting The Permissions Right
To serve blobs directly from Azure via HTTP, set your container permissions and MIME types properly.
Blue Monday: Service Bus Namespace Changes Will Require Changes To Current Code
Changes to Service Bus will require changes to your messaging-based solutions; bug fixed to increase number of VMs in DevTest Labs …
Working With The MailChimp API In .NET: Campaign Management
The Holy Grail of the MailChimp REST API: Sending Campaigns To Lists of Members. This post demonstrates using the MailChimp.NET.V3 wrapper library to do just that.