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What is "Accelerator for websites"?

Using it for my blog, and planning to use for my company's site soon. We'll have 2-3 web roles, SQL Azure, and possibly 2 worker roles in the future. Table storage for logging, and…

I also skip the "objectives" section when I read resumes.

I agree, the assertion that you shouldn't test is absurd. For example, TDD can save you time by catching bugs for you. When Iv'e worked on apps without tests, I have to test manual…

Seeking freelance work. Key skills: Full stack asp.net mvc, javascript, coffeescript, SQL, Azure, c#. Very strong SQL and data skills.

I just want excuses to mess with Clojsure and NoSQL this year. Now I need ideas that are interesting enough that I'll be motivated to build them out. Anyone have some throwaways id…

Well, there is no guidebook for this kind of thing. I don't know what to tell you. THere are probably people who know how to accomplish what you are trying to do, but I don't know …

I agree with this, if everything works with the company's current process, there will be no way to convince people to change, and there wouldn't be any reason to. Try to maybe focu…

Why are the rockstar dev's not interested in things like automated builds, and unit tests? Are they really "rockstar" dev's? It might be political. Maybe they like being the only o…

Very high level documentation is good. Things like, what are the steps to get the app to build, what tools do you need to install, frameworks, etc. What's the directory structure, …

Have you read the Pragmatic Programmer? They talk about how to handle a situation like this. From what I remember it said to build a pocket of excellence in your dev workspace firs…

I doubt a lot of it too. Same thing as people who underexaggerate how much they studied for a test in high school and college.

Tried but it didn't seem to work. I'm using Chrome, and I typed in Atmosphere. It took me to another page asking me to enter the artist name again. After 3 tries it finally showed …

meetup.com uses Java. And Google if you count Android.

You could try Orchard CMS on Azure websites. It is a CMS, but it has an out of the box "Blog" recipe that let's you get started without writing any code. Azure websites is cheap (a…

Just wanted to say that the landing page could do a better job explaining what this tool is. It took me almost 30 minutes before I figured out what this new product did. I didn't k…

Will this help at all if I want to let my marketing dept. publish Doubleclick For Publishers ads flash ads in certain spots on a large-ish website? I would say no, but I'm not sure…

Haven't had problems like this since WinXP.

Bulk email, or employee day to day email?