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Github Pricing (click to enlarge image) *  GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service , which offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. * The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett. * As of 2014, GitHub reports having over 3.4 million users and with 16.7 million repositories making it the largest code host in the world. It is written in Ruby. *  Peter Levine, general partner at GitHub's investor Andreessen Horowitz, stated that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly the entire way" Visual Studio Online pricing & features   (click to enlarge image) * Microsoft announced the release Visual Studio Online , Microsoft's hosted version of Team Foundation Server in the cloud. in November 2013. *  Visual Studio Online expands over Team Foundation Serve...

The YouTube API has comprehensive documentation. I wish more API providers had such detailed docs. It is a pity though that many of the Google APIs have got deprecated or removed all together. I think we should still exploit them while they are there. I compiled the parameters for YouTube API v2 Search for quick reference. Parameter Value alt atom , rss, json, json-in-script, jsonc author uploader max-results default is 25, maximum value is 50 start-index first result is 1, needed for paging caption true/false d...

This Week I Learned - *  Backstretch  is a  MIT licensed jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element. *  The latest Azure SQL Database V12 (preview) provides nearly complete compatibility with the Microsoft SQL Server engine . * The G-Series provides more memory and more local solid-state drive (SSD) storage than other Azure virtual machine (VM) sizes. The largest VM size in that series, Standard_G5 offer 32 Cores, 448 GB of RAM, 6,596 GB local SSD storage. * Not all OData operations are supported by the Azure Table Storage REST API * There are currently 3  Microsoft Azure certifications : Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions - 70-532 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - 70-533 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions - 70-534 * Microsoft Virtual Academy has video courses for  70-532  &  70-534 . One of the p...