May 21, 2015
Setting up a Google Hangout is not obvious, here are the steps I take to create one.
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Jan 22, 2015
the Storage Provider infrastructure in Orleans exposes an 'Etag' field representing a particular revision of the data in the underlying storage system. This can be used to detect writes competing writes to overwrite grain state.
Jan 13, 2015
A post discussing a future possibility for deploying Orleans to Azure
Jan 12, 2015
You can run io.js on Azure Websites easily, by configuring azure to use a custom node version. This blog shows you how.
Jan 2, 2015
The bootstrap provider enables you to hook in some code at silo startup. There are a variety of reasons for doing this, perhaps you want to set some local grains up, or initialize some data. The Hub design pattern makes use of the bootstrap provider create a stateless worker in each Silo.
It is possible to change this behavior by adding an attribute from the `Orleans.Placement` namespace to the Grain interface.
Dec 31, 2014
In the office we have a healthy, ongoing discussion about language choice. We generally discuss some hypothetical long term (10, 25, 100 year?) software project, and what language would be the most suitable.
Dec 10, 2014
I have been playing around with the Julia programming language for about a week. I like it. It has a easy to read syntax, and makes sense.
I have moved my blog to GitHub