CoderTakeout - Cloud Computing

(SMART SUMMARY) Return to section navigation list Visual Studio LightSwitch and Entity Framework 4.1+ Jan Van der Haegen (@ janvanderhaegen ) described his LightSwitch twitter bot in a 2/2/2012 post: Hey guys ‘n guls, I was reading some sites about LightSwitch yesterday and realized how hard it was to keep track of all the different blogs, articles, code samples, … Because I’m on Twitter a lot (yes, a LOT), I created a Twitter-bot account ( @LightSwitchNews ) that monitors interesting LightSwitch-related sources, and tweets if a new blog post is written, a new extension or code sample is added to the gallery, … The bot is created with “ if this then that “, a website with the amazingly simple but effective concept that events on one platform

(SMART SUMMARY) With this package you can: Run multiple instance of Ruby Application on Windows Azure Deploy your application virtually from any machine Connect to SQL Azure The application architectures is as below: Companion Package information: http://nougakudo.codeplex.com/ Documentation: http://nougakudo.codeplex.com/documentation Test results: NougakuDo 1.0.5 tested with Rails 3.0.9 NougakuDo 1.1.7 tested with Rails 3.1.0 NougakuDo 1.1.9 tested with Rails 3.1.1 Return to section navigation list Visual Studio LightSwitch and Entity Framework 4.1+ Jan Van der Haegen (@ janvanderhaegen ) described LightSwitch achievements: Chapter two (Events) – Classic events: “The observer” on 2/1/2012: In this blog post series , we’re going to create

(SMART SUMMARY) at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.Security.RetriableCertificateValidator.Validate(X509Certificate2 certificate) at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.X509SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateTokenCore(SecurityToken token) at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateToken(SecurityToken token) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.ValidateRemoteCertificate(Object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors) at System.Net.Security.SecureChannel.VerifyRemoteCertificate(RemoteCertValidationCallback remoteCertValidationCallback) at System.Net.Security.SslState.CompleteHandshake() at System.Net.Security.SslState.CheckCompletionBeforeNextReceive(ProtocolToken m

(SMART SUMMARY) The SQL Server Team (@ SQLServer ) announced Apache Hadoop Services for Windows Azure , a.k.a. Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure or Hadooop on Azure , at the...

(SMART SUMMARY) I’m a regular contributor of articles about cloud computing development and strategy to Red Gate Software’s (@ redgate ) ACloudyPlace (@ ACloudyPlace ) blog.

(SMART SUMMARY) Without touching the configuration of hadoop I cut the execution time in half: The Original Code: #!/usr/bin/python import sys import re def main(argv): line = sys.stdin.readline() pattern = re.compile( [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]* ) try: while line: for word in pattern.findall(line): print LongValueSum: + word.lower() + \t + 1 line = sys.stdin.readline() except end of file : return None if __name__ == __main__ : main(sys.argv) The Optimized Code: #!/usr/bin/python import sys import re def main(argv): line = sys.stdin.readline() pattern = re.compile( [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]* ) map = dict() try: while line: for word in pattern.findall(line): map[word.lower()] = map.get(word.lower(), 0) + 1 if ( len(map) 10000 ): for item in map.iteritems(): prin

(SMART SUMMARY) This application uses following node packages: Express EJS Jade Stylus Azure Node-uuid Let’s start with downloading package one by one: Express: C:\Azure\nodeprojects\BlogUsingAzureStorage npm install express npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/express npm http 200 https: //registry.npmjs.org/express npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/mime npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/qs npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp/0.0.7 npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/connect npm http 304 https: //registry.npmjs.org/qs npm http 304 https: //registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp/0.0.7 npm http 304 https: //registry.npmjs.org/connect npm http 200 https: //registry.npmjs.org/mime npm http GET https: //registry.npmjs.org/formidable n

(SMART SUMMARY) -- Connect to BlogsRUs_DB CREATE FEDERATION Blogs_Federation(id bigint RANGE) GO USE FEDERATION blogs_federation (id=-1) WITH RESET, FILTERING= OFF GO CREATE TABLE blogs_tbl( blog_id bigint not null , user_id bigint not null , blog_title nchar (256) not null , created_date datetimeoffset not null DEFAULT getdate(), updated_date datetimeoffset not null DEFAULT getdate(), language_id bigint not null default 1, primary key (blog_id) ) FEDERATED ON (id=blog_id) GO CREATE TABLE blog_entries_tbl( blog_id bigint not null , blog_entry_id bigint not null , blog_entry_title nchar (256) not null , blog_entry_text nchar (2000) not null , created_date datetimeoffset not null DEFAULT getdate(), updated_date datetimeoffset not null DEFAULT getdate(), la

(SMART SUMMARY) Introduction In addition to the basic MSCloudNumerics Visual Studio template and “Cloud Numerics” sample application described in my Introducing Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” from SQL Azure Labs of 1/23/2011, the Cloud Numerics Microsoft Connect Site ’s Example applications download offers three additional end-to-end examples: Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) document classification example Statistics functionality demonstration Time-series analysis of cereal yield data This post describes how to configure and deploy two 8-core HPC clusters hosted in Windows Azure and submit the LSICloudApplication to the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler for processing.

(SMART SUMMARY) Ronnie’s Using Data post of 1/20/2012 contains the following topics: Working with Arrays Loading Distributed Data from a File Creating Distributed Arrays from Azure Blobs Accessing Data with LINQ The MSCloudNumerics.sln Project Template and Sample Solution The first “Cloud Numerics” deliverable is a C# project template and sample program for Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Ultimate edition that takes advantage of the following newly available High-Performance Computing (HPC) components, which supersede Microsoft Research’s Dryad and DryadLINQ initiatives for high-performance, parallel computing in the cloud: Windows Azure HPC Scheduler , modules and features that developers can use to create Windows Azure deployments that support com