Posts Tagged ‘application development’

A source system that contains dynamic or customer-defined data fields is both an old problem and a sticky one in the  DW/BI environment.  A standard approach of flattening the dynamic data into name/value pairs is recommended for a relational-type database.   But what about multidimensional modeling or OLAP storage?  Name/value pairs are just the beginning.  To […]

Good news this morning for those using SharePoint 2013 and SkyDrive Pro for business collaboration and content storage / backup. Microsoft announced the news today (okay, technically yesterday) over on the Office 365 blog: We are pleased to announce that the SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS are now available in the Windows […]

One of the keys to Microsoft’s strategy to make Azure a clear choice for customers of every size is the idea that you get massive scalability to meet demands, but only have to pay for capacity that you’re actually using at any given point in time. Until today, that statement has always come with its […]

So if you are like me you have more development VMs than SSD space and do everything you can to keep your VM space down. One of the biggest things you can do is set your database options to Simple recovery model. This means that you won’t be able to do point in time backups […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to manage and re-use existing code. Right away I thought of code snippets. Snippets are handy for methods or small segments of code, but what I was really looking for was a faster way to repurpose common class libraries and patterns. Functionality such as caching, logging, abstracting the SharePoint data layer, etc. […]

Recently, I was working with a customer who was evaluating Office 365 for a very particular use case.  The scenario was this: The customer has several “kiosk” type computers in a store, and need to be able to save email attachments directly to the cloud without having to touch the file system of the kiosk.  […]

One of the things that I have been caught complaining about from time to time with the way Sitecore handles assignment of data source in presentation details is that the data source is stored as a string path, making it necessary to update every instance of presentation details that references an item when it is […]

For quite some time now, I’ve been working on a global design/deployment where there are multiple pools located throughout the globe.  Throughout this design, I’ve seen the flexibility of Lync Server 2013 at its very finest and gained a much better appreciation for how Lync Server was designed by the Product Team at Microsoft.  Due […]

Forbes had an interesting article this week – An Interview with the Most Powerful Woman in Health Care.  The woman is Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems. According to  KLAS’ 2012 Best in KLAS Report, Epic was rated as the #1 Overall Software Vendor, #1 Overall Software Suite, and #1 Overall Physician Practice Vendor based […]

According to a recent article I read, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) will become Mandatory by 2017 according to Gartner ! Wow that can really become an issue for companies that are not prepared to manage such an idea. We all know that BYOD has been gaining ground for some time with tablets and smart phones. […]

    I was given a task recently to have an application generate and send an email. The requirements were straight forward, the email should contain some customer information along with a list of products. My first thought was to use StringBuilder to handle the task, but something about that bothered me. In 2013, am I still […]

With the recent movement from preview to release of features such as Virtual Machines and Networking (along with a promise to match any price drops from Amazon’s AWS offering), Microsoft’s Windows Azure has been getting a lot of attention lately. One of the keys to the success of the product has been the cost at which […]