Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned - * Cool Blob Storage is generally available. Cool Blob Storage is low cost storage (as low as $0.01 per GB in some regions) for cool object data which is infrequently accessed but requires similar latency and performance to the more frequently accessed hot data. Example use cases for cool storage include backups, media content, scientific data, compliance and archival data. In general, any data which lives for a longer period of time and is accessed less than once a month is a perfect candidate for cool storage -   Microsoft Azure Blog *  Brazil uses Google Translate more than any other country. Ninety-two percent of our translations come from outside of the United States, with Brazil topping the list.  *  Microsoft is among the Top Chefs contributing to IFTTT recipes * The website Postcards-From-Google Earth contains a compilation of distorted images on Google Earth.  They reveal a new model of representation: ...

Notes from articles around the web: * Azure Resource Manager and Azure Service Managment "Classic" deployment models are not completely compatible with each other.  * To simplify the deployment and management of resources, Microsoft recommends that you use Resource Manager for new resources, and, if possible, re-deploy existing resources through Resource Manager. *  The Resource Manager version of  Azure PowerShell  commands have the format Verb-AzureRmNoun whereas the Service Management version of  Azure PowerShell  commands have the format Verb-AzureNoun *  Resource Manager added the concept of the resource group. Every resource you create through Resource Manager exists within a resource group.  *  The Resource Manager deployment model provide several benefits: - Deploy, manage and monitor Azure resources as a group -  Deploy resources repeatedly -  Supports creating templates. Templates can be created to include a s...

* What is a Workspace? It is a mapping between a computer and TFS for the purposes of version control * When files are checked in, they are... all tracked as part of the same changeset and that changeset has a number * What is the Product Backlog? List of all desires and requirements for the product * What is the Sprint Backlog? List of Product Backlog Items or User Stories for the sprint plus the tasks to be performed * If you are not currently connected to TFS via a network, what is required to perform a version control Undo on a file? A local workspace * If you have a Local workspace, what do you need to prevent someone from modifying a file in TFS? A check-in lock * What does the Scrum Board do? Helps you to visualize and manage the state of the project during a sprint * What does a Branch help you do? Simultaneously work on different versions of a code base.This helps in feature development isolation. * What does a Merg...