Nuget Wordpress REST API – Authentication

I use Wordpress.com as my blog platform.  It hosts the Wordpress CMS software and adds a few goodies.

I was curious about their API after noticing that my Blog App (Windows Live Writer) tended to create duplicate of pictures, leaving lots of unused assets...

Corporate Cultures

It is said that Netflix represents the new I.T. corporation well.

If you are interested in seeing what their corporate culture looks like, have a look a the slide deck they show to their job candidates.

It has all the flair of the typical Silicon...

AzureML - Polynomial Regression with SQL Transformation

I meant to illustrate over fitting (discussed in a past blog) with AzureML.  An easy way to illustrate it is to fit a bunch of sample points near perfectly and the best tool for that is Polynomial Regression.

I was surprised to see that AzureML doesn’t support Polynomial Regression natively.  But…  while thinking about...

SOA vs Mobile APIs

I recently read an article from Bill Appleton of Dream Factory with the provocative title SOA is not a Mobile Backend.

It raised quite a few good points that were in the back of my mind for more than a year.

Basically, what is the difference between SOA and API?

Azure SQL Datawarehouse

Documentation on Azure SQL Datawarehouse, the new Azure Datawarehouse managed service, is quite thin.

The online documentation, as of today (24/07/2015), consists of 3 videos and a blog post.

Here is what I gathered.

One of the great characteristic of the offering is the separate Storage...