Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

Last year Microsoft had launched Microsoft Band 2. From the hardware configuration, it’s very powerful with a lot of sensors and a battery autonomy that offers me two days of power. Overview But, the thing that impress me is the software part and how easily you can develop a tile (a custom app) for it. You don’t need to learn C#, you can create a tile easily directly from browser. Yes, you heard me, from a browser - https://developer.microsoftband.com/WebTile This will allow you get content from the the fat web and push it to your tile. In this way you can easily integrate your application with the band - fast and easy Another great thing is how you deploy and share tiles. You don’t need to push to the store, validate it and so on. No, you are free to share the tile with anybody. Just upload it to a specific location and share the URL with your friends via email or web. The phone can detect automatically the tile and open it using Microsoft Band applicat...

I was shocked how simple we can create and attach a new build agent to TFS 2015. There are only a few simple and small steps that we need to do. The new build system that comes with TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services (Visual Studio Online) is not using anymore the old and classic XAML build definition. The new one allows you to define the build as a flow of events where you can specify at each step what do you want to happen. This is done easily  directly from the web portal. If you need to create or add a new build agent to your TFS 2015 infrastructure, than you will be shocked how easily this can be done. First step is to download from the "Agent Pools" tab the agent. Once you done this step, you will need to run the executable on the machine that will become the new Build Agent. I recommend to run the executable file from a command prompt and provide all the information that are required. You only need to know the TFS 2015 address and to have access to TFS as ...