Azure WCF development

There is a patch you must install that creates a local “load balancer” that fixes an issue with requests to and from AppFabric services. You’ll also have to update the behavior.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure/Wiki/View.aspx?title=KnownIssues

Azure Initialization

After publishing your services might hang, if they don’t start in around an hour, try stopping and restarting them.

http://blog.toddysm.com/2010/01/windows-azure-deployment-stuck-in-initializing-busy-stopping-why.html

Azure Instances

• You can’t set the number of running instances for any service to 0. If you do you get a Dr. Watson exception thrown in the Azure UI….Really; Dr. Watson!
• You can’t have more then 5 web roles, again cryptic Dr. Watson error message

Azure Upgrade

Upgrade means upload new code, when you do this you can’t change the configuration. If you need to add/remove/rename roles you will have to delete and redeploy.

WP7 Service References

You can only have one service reference in the current CTP.

Upgrading WP7 CTP to April

I tried it; following all the correct instructions the application was running but would bomb randomly. Recreating the project from scratch (copy/paste the code) fixed the issue.

WP7 Panorama

By far the best and most stable panorama: http://phone.codeplex.com/

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there are no native installers for ubuntu jaunty. you need to install from source. I found a nice shell script that does all the steps.

http://www.nabble.com/attachment/23469480/0/install-mono-2.4

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Sorry everyone that uses RSS to read my blog, both of you listen up. I updated the feed url after all that google move stuff.

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ericpolerecky

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I got back my shiny, rebuilt PC. After putting in a detailed build request for just Visual Studio, Visio and nothing else. No frameworks, tools, .NET stuff, nothing I fired it up. I am not shocked to see a workstation filled with so many programs, SDKs, runtimes, it looks like someone vomited up the results from a Microsoft downloads search for “.NET”. I never expected my request was not honored, I figured I would get the standard “developer” build, what I am shocked with is that the development leadership group (that I am part of) directed workstation services as to what software needs to be included in the image! FAIL!

Here is my post PC rebuild task list.

1. Install
   1. Windows Live Writer (& msn messenger) so I can blog about it…im a dork.
   2. Firefox
2. Outlook setup, painless.
3. Uninstall:
1. Windows Mobile 5 SDK R1 – Not developing for mobile.
2. Windows Mobile 5 SDK R2 – Not developing for mobile.
3. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 – Not developing for mobile.
4. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 – Not developing for mobile.
5. Microsoft Device Emulator Version 3.0 – Not developing for mobile.
6. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 Design Tools – Not developing for mobile.
7. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 – Not developing for mobile.
8. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 for Devices – Not developing for mobile.
9. Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.2 – Don’t have access to DB Servers per client standard.
4. Reopen the ticket to ask for the tech’s to install IIS (or provide me with a copy of i386). They did both!
5. Install (Using the Web Platform Installer):
1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0
2. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
6. Install
1. Visual Studio 3.5 SP1
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3
3. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express

Now the workstation is how I would have expected it. From here I can spend the rest of the day installing all this software

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1. I spent too much time thinking about writing this
2. I know I am a workaholic
3. I have a problem; I must be great at whatever I do
4. #3 includes being a provider for my family…Hence #2
5. I won a million dollars…but threw away the winning ticket
6. I worked in tattoo shops for 3 years as a body piercer, made and sold body jewelry and have had 10 non-ear piercings
7. Being a father is the scariest thing I have ever done
8. I lost my two best friends in the last 6 months that was very hard on me
9. Kate and I have not missed a MMA (ufc) in almost 4 years and it’s cost us about 2500$
10. I majored in culinary arts
11. I had the kanji symbols for “change” and “gathering” branded on the back of my legs with an electrocautery scalpel
12. I do not sweet the small stuff
13. I listen to podcasts about software development (TDD, OOO, DDD, ORM)
14. My body is way older then I am
15. I love learning
16. I can barely spell and smell
17. I really enjoy doing nothing
18. I was expelled from high school….twice
19. I spent a weekend working as a body piercer in a gay bar
20. I require 8 hours of sleep
21. I look forward to spending quality time with Kate
22. Small talk makes me Ill. I think I have aspergers
23. There are things I left off this list
24. Upon turning 30 my view of the world changed…I’m still trying to figure it out.
25. I need to hire a personal assistant

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Today I updated eric.polerecky.com to 2.7-beta2 using the wordpress-automatic-upgrade plugin. Everything went smooth. Once the upgrade was complete I had to disable wordpress-automatic-upgrade because of some errors in the admin pages.

How to: edit wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php around line 2100 and change
$downloadURL = ‘http://wordpress.org/latest.zip’;
to
$downloadURL = ‘http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip’;

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I’ve come to be unhappy with the jquery plugin system. I seem to be in a perpetual cycle of “lookup-download-install-initialized-use” and based on the recent milestone slippage I just don’t have the time required when the only payoff (vs. other JS libs) seems to be streamlined JavaScript package……then again aren’t all the plugins adding crazy overhead? Whatever…I’m going to use the dojotoolkit.

I love me some dojo!

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