Ask Developer Hangout - 39 - Microsoft Openness with Khaled El Maghawry

Agenda:

• OPENNESS Story
• Windows Azure
• OPENNESS Community 
• Microsoft + Open Source
• Modern.IE
• CodePlex
• BizSpark
• OPENNESS by the numbers

EP32 - Ask Developer Podcast - Web Development Evolution

Agenda

• The simplicity and complexity of the web.
• It used to be just HTML
• Then Javascript
• And CSS
• And million libraries and frameworks.
• Markup as a way for building UIs.
• WPF
• Server side vs client side (the loop)
• Web technologies in non-web scenarios:
• FirefoxOS
• NodeJS Desktop applications (using Node-Webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)
• Example: https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ I've used this desktop application and liked it, and a week later discovered that it's a NodeJS app.
• Browsers as Operating Systems:
• Chromebooks
• FirefoxOS
• Single-page applications (SPA) as a way to blur the lines between web applications and desktop applications.
• Google's big push for AngluarJS is part of making web application replace desktop applications.

EP30 - Ask Developer Podcast - DevOps

الحلقة الثلاثون من راديو اسأل مطور, في هذا الأسبوع نطرح دور الDevOps في تطوير المؤسسات

1. What is the role of DevOps?
1. "Automate All Things"
2. A role currently related to Online Services.
3. The principle of self-serve IT
4. Streamline and Automate Operation tasks
5. Monitoring & Alerting
6. Deployment
7. Scaling up & down
8. OS\Platforms upgrades, patches ... etc
9. Building internal platforms to facilitate many IT related jobs
1. Creating virtual machines
2. Assigning DNS's
3. Configuring load balancers \ software load balancers
4. Self-Serve deployment
10. Technologies 
1. All virtual machine automation software
2. Chef www.getchef.com/ 
3. Puppet www.puppetlabs.com/
4. Salt http://docs.saltstack.com/index.html
5. Graphite http://graphite.wikidot.com/