Sessão NetPonto – DevOps: PowerShell DSC

No passado sábado decorreu a 10ª reunião no Porto da Comunidade NetPonto. Coube-me a honra que apresentar uma sessão relacionada com a utilização de powershell DSC no procesos de DevOps. Sala cheia de Malta motivada e interessada, nas instalações da DevScope com uma lindíssima vista sobre o Porto.

Evolution of SharePoint

Julia White from the Office 365 Team released a post on the Office Blogs regarding the futures of Sharepoint. An interesting insight to keep in mind now that a new version of Sharepoint is coming up.

Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts

Brian Keller has just published his new dev VM. This virtual machine replaces the previous Visual Studio 2013 ALM virtual machine which was based on Preview bits. This is a publicly downloadable set of content, so you may feel free to share this with your customers, partners, etc. It’s designed to be both a tool … Continue reading Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts →

TF30063: You are not authorized to access …

When working with more than one account, you frequently get an error trying to connect to a TFS server. This happens both in the on premises or int the TFSPREVIEW.COM service. The most painful process, suggests you clear all your ached credentials, but this is a real pain, and you'll have to do it every … Continue reading TF30063: You are not authorized to access … →

Quick tip: where is IISAPP?

IISAPP.vbs was a nice script that listed the applcation pools running in a box. This information is quite usefull, namely for debugging processes. The command is no longer available in the most recent versions of the OS, bu there is a work around: appcmd. open a command prompt and run "c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd List WP" and you'll … Continue reading Quick tip: where is IISAPP? →

A day in the field: my usual tools and the new goodies

A day in the field is not complete without your set of tools. Here is a revised list of my current and future tools (just in doubt if things that make you grin can be called tools...).

TFS Services (Azure) online ad available

It has been made available the Azure version of the Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Services), also known as TFS Services preview. You can create a free account with a live account and use it in your projects. For the time beeing it is free. I don't have an idea of the business model of this … Continue reading TFS Services (Azure) online ad available →

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out

Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them. With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8. This browser … Continue reading Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out →

Technical magazines

Finding good technical magazines is not allways a simple task. I'm sharing here 3 of my favourite mags distributed freely online in pdf format: The Architecture Journal MSDN Magazine TechNet Magazine Enjoy.