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How to: Schedule Azure VMs to Resize
Azure VMs can be resized to use more CPU cores, memory or now even GPUs. As you may already know,...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 03/01/2017
How to: Schedule Azure VM Shutdown based on CPU, Disk, Network Usage
In my previous post, I talked about how you can schedule Azure VMs to shutdown based on times of the...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 01/25/2017
How to: Schedule Azure VM Startup and Shutdown
As you might know, Azure VMs cost money per hour when they are on. Have you ever wanted to shutdown...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 01/13/2017
Share Your Github Activity with GitTrack.io
If you've ever wanted to let people know, say your followers or maybe even your boss about what...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 01/01/2016
Command Line Wizardry with Azure Command Line
The azure cross-platform command line tool is a pretty sweet tool to manage your azure resources and...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/26/2015
Connecting AWS VPC to Azure VNet via Resource Manager
Often times companies with sizeable deployments opt to run their infrastructure on multiple...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/17/2015
High Availability Apps via Fleet & CoreOS – Start to Finish: Provisioning on Azure
Provisioning CoreOS using Azure Resource Manager This post is part of the 4-part series High...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 06/05/2015
Mocking Ember Services for Unit Testing
Let’s be honest. Testing is not sexy. To be honest I think this is about as sexy testing is...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 04/23/2015
Running Ember Test Automation in Node Webkit (Nwjs)
Recently last month my buddy Felix and I decided to start working on a project to bring...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 04/23/2015
Get SSL on Your Deis Cluster for FREE with Cloudflare
SimpleTranscription.com is actually running on a deis cluster within Azure. If you notice our...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 04/23/2015
Heroku Meets Azure – The Easiest Way to Deploy Your Rails App on Azure
Heroku pretty much created the gold standard of Platform as a Service (PaaS) web deployments for...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 01/15/2015
Inside KinectKannon – The Semi-autonomous Robotic T-Shirt Cannon
Today a I finally had some free time to write up a detailed overview on the KinectKannon. Enjoy!...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 10/24/2014
Building Your Resume Like a Boss With CI
Introduction The full source repository can be found at github.com/sedouard/resume If you’re a...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 10/23/2014
Continuous Delivery in Minutes with Node.js, Grunt, Mocha and Git
Modern application development now'a'days demands a rigorous continuous deliver mechanism. This is...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 09/25/2014
A Kinect-Augmented T-Shirt Cannon
The Kinect Kannon can track targets with its skeletal tracking thanks to Kinect. It can also respond...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 09/12/2014
Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon: How to Hack and Win at It
This past week my team and I participated in the Tech Crunch Disrupt hackathon in San Francisco. If...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 09/09/2014
Building Hyper Scalable Web APIs Right in Your Browser — Fast!
You find yourself at a hackathon and you need a backend for your web/native app, and you need to...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 09/09/2014
A Stroll Through Node: Creating a Facial Recognition App via 3rd Party APIs
This is the final post in the series, 'A Stroll Through Node'. Often times we want to bring in some...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/26/2014
Video: SmartDoor, the World’s first Cloud-connected DoorBell
SmartDoor is a raspberry pi device, attached to a camera and a doorbell. I created it using Azure...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/21/2014
Are You Personable and Love to Code? There ARE Jobs Like That!
One things I learned during my time in college was that I loved to hack and work on cool technical...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/18/2014
A Stroll Through Node: Building a Real-time Communication App
Real-time communication is an exciting area of web development which utilizes a fairly young...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/18/2014
A Stroll Through Node: Building a Recipes Website with Express, Jade and Bootstrap
Ever wanted to create a real website but don’t know anything about back-end programming? Are...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/11/2014
A Stroll Through Node: Introduction
This is the first part of the Node.js Introductory series, A Stroll Through Node. This walkthrough...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/06/2014
A Stroll Through Node - Series
Ever wanted to learn Node.js but not really familiar with it, or web development in general? Take a...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 08/06/2014
BartNOW: A WinJS Web App for Subway Trains
What is BartNOW BartNOW is a mobile web app to see live subway train times for the San Francisco Bay...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 06/24/2014
When Sublime ain't going to cut it: Visual Studio tools for Node.js
Have you taken a serious look at Visual Studio for your node.js development yet? Checkout this post...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 06/09/2014
Cordova Tools for Visual Studio: A first Look
Checkout my quick walk through on the developer experience for Cordova tools for Visual Studio. You...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 06/04/2014
Combining Backbone.JS and WinJS for Crossplatform Single Page Apps
Checkout my latest blog post on how you can combine the MVC power of Backbone.js with the fast...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 06/04/2014
DevCast: Target People - Not Devices with Cross Platform Notifications (Andriod)
Quit tracking platform device-specific tokens in your database and quickly send mega scalable push...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 05/19/2014
Create, Publish and Monetize your Web API in Minutes
Checkout my blog post on the first looks of the new API Management service in Azure.
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 05/15/2014
DevCast: Target people – not devices with Cross-Platform Notifications (iOS)
In this DevCast we’ll go over what Notification Hubs are and how you can easily leverage them...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 05/13/2014
Turn Build + Test + Deploy to just Build + Test with Ngrok
Take a look at my blog post on how you can easily test out your latest build of your website without...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 05/06/2014
Azure Mobile + Service Bus for the IoTs
Checkout my video on connecting your mobile service to the Azure Service Bus queue which you can use...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 05/06/2014
Azure Mobile & MongoDB? : It's like Peanut Butter & Jelly!
Are you interested in using MongoDB, the popular NoSQL document oriented database solution with the...
Author: Steven Edouard Date: 04/20/2014