UPDATE: Maybe you are interesting how the story went on. Have a look at Natural borders of Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus. Programming for the cloud is always experimental. This can be quite scary when unexpected things happen in a production environment. Why? It is pretty hard to understand all the environment details plus […]
Author: holgerleichsenring
Embedding pdf into PowerPoint by usage of OpenXml
So what’s the fun part of mainly working into Azure when you not have to go back to really oldschool coding with OLE? Having worked with these old-fashioned OLE libraries means (again) being able to really worship working into brand-new Azure environment where pretty much everything is moreless clear. I currently write software for Books. This is automation software for […]
Programming and Intuition, Part II
May you read the first part of Programming And Intuition. I promised to add some more experience about that and it didn’t take a long time for getting into a situation again where intuition and experience helped me a lot. This time at a different customer. Certainly it is pretty easy in the Excel ecosystem […]
Programming and Intuition? Come on.
Intuition and programming? Are you serious? Maybe it sounds odd in the first run, but I often have a certain kind of .. let’s say instinct when I watch code to find out where the cause of a problem is. It is something behind the scenes telling me I should concentrate on a little fact. This […]
Azure computing: Keep an eye onto the big picture
The day before my vacation me and my team had probably everything in place to let our cloud solution run for two weeks. The only missing peace was the “initial load”. As this is a cache based solution, data from a source system must be preloaded into the system as a whole. You may think […]
Azure: Unable to log on to Remote Desktop
It is a small thing, but it kept me from working. When working in the Azure environment, a remote desktop user can be created to anytime connect to the “real” machine via remote desktop. When trying to do so, I got this message: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted […]
Don’t make me think vs don’t think about it
I believe it was five years ago when I was sitting in a plane with a printed version of Don’t make me think. This book from Steve Krug from 2000 can be considered as kind of benchmark. When I read something about it I was impressed by two things: This guy does exactly what nobody […]
Race issues – application crashing and user interaction
Today was amazing. I’ve been in the office again, had some really promising chats with team members and everything looked good. I was short before getting back to the airport to catch my flight back to Düsseldorf, when… Murphy was there. Pretty much visually. He reincarnates in a log file like this: 2014-11-18 09:48:34,236 [6] […]
Debugging Azure Worker and Web Roles
I am currently working onto a project that targets Azure Cloud as data storage as well as using the strong infrastructure capabilities for scaling services up for up to 2000 calls a second. While we are not ready for that massive amount of calls, me and my team put the functionality together. When doing so, […]
Start it up!
Welcome dear reader, is it time to start it up. I did participate so much from communities, whenever I had problems I could get information from people who care. Even write it down, publish it, make it readable and decorate it with side information that one doesn’t get bored while reading it. I feel the […]