TechBash 2017 Last week I had the honor to present two sessions at TechBash 2017. I would like to thank the organizers for having me over, and thank the audience for attending my sessions. Unfortunately, the sessions were not recorded, but you can find the slide decks and links to code samples below. Session 1…
Next month is gonna be kind of crazy, or as I like to call it – “Crazy October!”. As much as I like public speaking appearances, this upcoming October is gonna be packed with appearances in three major international conferences. TechBash 2017 First up is TechBash taking place on October 4th-6th at the Pocono Manor…
Unfamiliar Territories Recently I had to quickly understand and take over a customer’s .NET code base. This code base has a lot of history, and as such I was sure that time has taken its toll on it. My goal was to quickly understand the overall quality of the code as well as map areas…
שבוע שעבר נערך כנס מפתחי התוכנה השנתי הגדול של מיקרוסופט – Microsoft Build. במהלך הכנס הוכרזו והוצגו מספר רב של חידושים עבור הפלטפורמות הטכנולוגיות השונות של מיקרוסופט אשר את עיקריהן אסקור במאמר זה.
Azure Mobile Services Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a type of service also commonly known as a Backend-as-a-Service. ASP.NET SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a library for ASP.NET developers that simplifies the process…
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a one day workshop at Microsoft Israel on Azure Mobile Services. For those of you who don’t know, Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a…
IoT is Hot IoT gets all the hype these days. It is the new buzzword and soon it will be in every part of our life. But what are the parts that compose an IoT project? What is the correct way to build it? In case you haven’t heard, Tamir Dresher and myself are presenting…
Thank You! First of all, I’d like to say a big thank you to all those who attended yesterday’s meeting of the Israeli Azure Developer Community. Feedbacks from those who attended are great so far and I sure do hope to see you on next month’s meeting. Azure App Service Resources If you saw my presentation…
Last week I attended Microsoft’s Build conference at San-Francisco along with my colleagues. Build is Microsoft’s prime developer conference, and as such it is packed with technical content relating to software development on top of Microsoft’s various platforms – from Band, to Xbox, to PC to Azure. In this post I’ll try to summarize my key…
The area of IoT (Internet of Things) gets all the hype these days. Thousands and even millions of devices sensing the environment and sending continuous information to your system, utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning technologies is no easy task to achieve, but it’s not the future – it’s already here! This upcoming Monday CodeValue is delivering…
If you ever used a 3rd party API, you surely know the importance of proper documentation – Can this method return “null”? Do I have to check this return value? What are the valid values of this argument? You also probably know that the only way to discover if your assumptions are correct is to…
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is Microsoft’s .NET implementation of a Workflow authoring and hosting environment. With WF 4.5 developers can easily author workflows using the Visual-Studio built-in WF designer, host them in multiple application environments using the provided runtime engine and even expose them as services for the outside world to consume. Oh, and it’s…