FireBase - Scalable real-time backend

Looking at some AngularJS video's, I came across FireBase. It's a real-time enabled document storage as far as I can see. Go check out the tutorial, it's great to get a quick feel on this thing.

Reading up on AngularJS best practices

This week I'm starting on a Single Page Application (SPA) for which we decided to go with AngularJS. Can't wait to get started and for prep I've been reading up an a few 'best practices' and 'lessons learned'. Here are some interesting articles:

Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project
Code Organization in Large AngularJS and JavaScript Applications
AngularJS Best Practices: I’ve Been Doing It Wrong! Part 1 of 3 part 2 and part 3
While you're at it - check out the AngularJS YouTube channel

MS Azure - updated terms & conditions

It was already anounced on .NET Rocks! By Scott Guthrie - Azure pricing changed so that stopped VMs are free of charge and you pay by the minute. Awesome.

Also - since I'm working at a MS Gold Partner, my MSDN Premium account entitles me to a whole bunch of Azure credits. Awesome. I've been spinning up VMs with VS2013, new BizTalk etc etc.

Check out mr. Guthrie's blog post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-azure-announcing-major-improvements-for-dev-test-in-the-cloud.aspx

Windows Azure - scripting your VMs

I've looked into some Puppet videos over the last couple of weeks and I'm stoked to get that running on my machine. I'm not that quick since Linux is not my normal environment of working in and I'm not as quick in it.

But - I've been hearing about all these benefits of quickly spinning up 100 Azure nodes for load testing or something, so it should be possible to script this process as well. Here's a channel 9 video on how to do that on Azure: