As stated in The natural border of azure cloud queue scalability we experienced pretty relevant issues with Cloud Queues. We believed we solved the issues, though. As a result of too heavy usage of exactly one Storage Account, we devided to split the traffic – which actually really had too much to do – to several accounts to balance the work load. The […]
Author: holgerleichsenring
What’s wrong with that: I am not that good in naming classes
Quite a while ago I was sitting together with another programmer to review the brand new sources. It was created as a prototype, a proof of concept. The original product has been rewritten for several reasons: The UI shall be completely redesigned The codebase had to be replaced due to bad maintainability and bad performance Yes, certainly if there would […]
Using special characters in passwords with Git on Windows
Last week I needed to get new commits of a certain Git and push it to a customer Git hosted on TFS that actually is reachable via VPN. Git is pretty powerful, so I just had two remotes configured. Getting information from the first git. Actually this is one Git that is hosted within our network. Worked like […]
What’s wrong with that – robust and unquestionable code
I recently had a session about proper exception handling and, more intensively, defensive programming. As exception handling is one of the most important as well as one of the most unattented tasks of a developer, the session was based on real code from the code base of the products. Don’t get me wrong here: It is not […]
Google Drive, Cloudfogger and Hyper V
So it was time to get a new machine, the old one – an EliteBook 8470w having 16 gb and i7 quad core was quite well. Pretty heavy but very reliable with a good overall performance. It started to get outdated, but the strongest reasons to replace it have been I need to install SharePoint 2013. […]
The natural borders of Azure cloud queue scalability
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 […]
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 […]