Docker Run My Container — Docker and the Super Powers of FROM! A Dockerfile and some application code that sits in a git repo, is the purest form of digital value that you can get.
Azure Adding SQL Azure database as Linked Resource to Web App The so called Azure Preview Portal, that has been in preview for ages and ages, is less than ideal or should I say confusing in a few places. One thing I particularly find difficult to grasp, is the concept of linked resources. In the old portal (or current, since it
Azure Be aware of how Azure auto-assigns Resource Groups Resource Groups [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-group-portal/] in Microsoft Azure is used to structure all your apps, databases, services, VMs etc. into logical containers that you can manage at once. But when you create new resources, the Azure Portal often makes a guess about which resource group
C# How To Get Expiration Date of Azure Mobile Services Auth Token This is another post about Custom Authentication in Azure Mobile Services [https://martinnormark.com/how-to-do-custom-login-in-azure-mobile-services/]. Recently I also wrote about how the get the user logged in (owner of the auth token) [https://martinnormark.com/getting-logged-in-api-user-in-azure-mobile-service/] and all the code is available in my "Bootstrap Azure Mobile Services"
C# How to do Custom login in Azure Mobile Services About a week ago I introduced ZuMo.API [https://github.com/martinnormark/ZuMo.API] which is a Windows Azure Mobile Service (ZuMo) that was configured with a custom login provider that takes a username and password. Today I want to show how you actually login to the API (remember that
C# Getting logged in API user in Azure Mobile Service Last week I published ZuMo.API [https://martinnormark.com/introducing-zumo-api-a-bootstrapper-for-windows-azure-mobile-services/] to GitHub [https://github.com/martinnormark/ZuMo.API] which is a simple Windows Azure Mobile Service (using the .Net backend) that includes Custom Authentication instead of solely relying on Active Directory or login via Twitter, Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Today
cloud Introducing ZuMo.API - Bootstrap Azure Mobile Services with Custom Authentication A couple of days ago, I wrote about some issues I had when updating a Windows Azure Mobile Service [https://martinnormark.com/updating-a-windows-azure-mobile-services-project/] to the latest Nu Get Packages. Today I'm releasing ZuMo.API [https://github.com/martinnormark/ZuMo.API] - a small bootstrapper project for setting up
C# Updating a Windows Azure Mobile Services project: Method not found I've always tried to stay as much on the bleeding edge as possible. I used to donwload new version of Windows or Visual Studio as soon they released a public alpha or beta version. I don't like to use outdated software, and the same goes for
