Windows Azure SQL Database named an Enterprise Cloud Database Leader by Forrester Research

Three weeks ago Forrester released a paper on Cloud Databases.

As pointed out by Microsoft, Forrester declared SQL Azure and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB and salesforce.com’s Database.com as leader of the pack.

That is quite impressive given the relatively late start Microsoft took on those competitors.

SQL Azure is a leading service in the...

Web Design: Make Complex thing Simple

I’m always amazed at you a simple user interface can simplify complex tasks.

Take Windows Explorer where you can drag & drop multiple files from one folder to another.  The user sees which folders the files are going into, it takes a few seconds and boom!  Doing that by command line would be much more abstract, left alone much more...

Windows Server Service Bus 1.0

Service Bus is a newly released technology by Microsoft (October 24th 2012). It aims at being an on-premise equivalent to its Azure Service counter part.  It implements a subset of its cloud counter part (install notes).

Windows Server Service Bus (WSSB) is part of Windows Server licensing and is therefore 'free'.

The product comes with a configuration...

Advertisement tracking in iOS 6 vs no-tracking in IE 10

As the Business Insider reported, Apple has quietly introduced a new technology called IDFA (Identification For Advisers) in iOS 6.

This technology is similar to cookies in browser and advertisers to know which iPhone user has looked at which ads on which web site.  It is anonymous in the sense that no other information beyond your ID is...

Windows Store App Lifecycle

MSDN Magazine cool article about Windows Store App (aka Modern App, aka Metro Style app) lifecycle.

The author, Rachel Appel, raise the veil from how an app is managed by the OS in Windows 8.

Actually there are few states for an application to be in and few transitions but the devil is in the details!

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