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Dev: Flask Intro 1
Recently, I attended a Python Meetup. The first presenter was Carter Rabasa from Twilio. He gave two short demos of Flask. From the site: Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. More specifically, … Continue reading
Dev: Continuous Integration with Jenkins in a mixed Linux and Microsoft Environment
Explanation Jenkins is an open source continuous integration server. It boasts 929 plugins to handle about any sort of bizarre requirement you can throw at a project. In most cases, setting up CI or build servers is a tedious but … Continue reading
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Tagged continuous integration, development, jenkins, linux, msbuild, msbuild.dll, ubuntu, windows
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Dev: Enterprise Backbone.js Project Setup
Today I want to discuss the how’s and why’s of a Backbone.JS (http://backbonejs.org/) implementation. Ultimately, doing client side MVC, you come to face to face with Google’s popular Angular framework. Many people will question you if you use anything but … Continue reading
Setup: MariaDB 10.0 on Azure
Back again with some more notes. Opinion and Motivation MS SQL is a popular tool, but in has a big hurdle in cloud adoption: pricing. The obfuscation of pricing in Azure hurts. When a client asks how much it will … Continue reading
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Tagged Azure, MariaDB, Microsoft, MySQL, putty, ubuntu, Virtual Machine
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Setup: Azure, Ubuntu 13.10, Node.js, Express.js
In my last post, I covered how you would setup a Virtual Box virtual machine on a Windows host for a Ubuntu 13.10 client, running as a web server with Node.js. This post will take it to the next level: … Continue reading
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Tagged Azure, Cloud, express.js, http://michaeldukehall.com, node.js, putty, ssh, ubuntu, virtualbox, web server
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Setup: VirtualBox 4.3.6, Ubuntu 13.10 CLI, Node.js, Forever.js
In my last post I covered a popular implementation of BackboneJS in Visual Studio. [http://michaeldukehall.com/visual-studio-2013-single-page-application-with-backbonejs/] I was not happy with it. Primarily because mixing a JavaScript Client-Side MV* solution with a ASP.Net Server-Side MVC solution feels clunky. So, I’ve set … Continue reading
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Tagged forever, http://michaeldukehall.com, Javascript, node, nodejs, virtual box, web server
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Dev: Visual Studio 2013 Single Page Application with BackBoneJS
Introduction: As part of my exploration from the last blog post I have been digging into BackBoneJS. Here I take a look at getting started with BackBoneJS in a Microsoft environment. Ultimately, I don’t think this is a very clean … Continue reading
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Tagged asp.net mvc, BackboneJS, css3, html5, Javascript, jquery, Mailchimp, MVC, Single Page Application, SPA, Visual Studio 2013
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More Holistic Web Architecture
A lot of architecture on the web discusses the problem from a less than holistic perspective. With this blog I am attempting to start down a path that answers more than just the “web related” interests with its architecture. So, … Continue reading
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Tagged asp.net mvc, asp.net web api, memcached, nginx, reporting, rest, restful, varnish, web architecture
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Windows Azure Cloud Costs Analysis
If you’ve ever tried to figure out what Cloud Hosting would cost, you may have thought, “wow, that’s complex.” I’m here to confirm that thought and maybe help out with the knowledge I gained from 4 days of back and … Continue reading
Dev Setup: Windows 7, IIS 7.5, SQL 2012, Visual Studio 2012, TFS
This entry attempts to cover, from start to finish, how one developer might setup a new development machine with Windows 7, IIS 7.5, SQL 2012, VS 2012, and Team Foundation Cloud Services. I am publishing this because I found many … Continue reading