Jack Ma, a developer's random stuff
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This blog is now moved to https://jackma.com and will be renovated from there... :)
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/10/2015
A list of readings on async programming
Understanding the SynchronizationContext in...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 04/16/2013
Something I should be aware of two years ago
I really wish I have known about these changes two years ago. So I can save some hours for resolving...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 02/25/2013
If you don’t want to use one input method for all
I’m using Windows 8 system for my regular daily work. I’m using English as the display language and...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/08/2012
LocalResource for Diagnostic, the size config matters
In one of my Azure projects, we use local storage to temporarily store some logging data files and...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/08/2012
A not-bad article on WinRT for .NET devs like me
Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/07/2012
A tool to simplify and automate your SQL Azure database backup
So you have one or more SQL Azure databases that have data stored you treat really seriously and...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/04/2012
win 8 doesn’t like WEP Wi-Fi connection
My newly installed win 8 system failed to connect to my home Wi-Fi without any useful information...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 10/27/2012
A nice post from Jianshuo Wang
Surrounded by the Crazy to be Normal“I wrote an article on Weibo “They...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 07/29/2012
I like this statement: The 100% coverage practice is costly only when it forces substandard code to be well designed.
And it is from a post of Patrick Smacchia on simple-talk.Patrick wrote an essay about writing unit...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 03/20/2012
a special day
Today, Windows 8 Consumer Preview and VS 11 Beta are announced. This makes a special day for...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 03/01/2012
Be careful when you use both Windows Azure Diagnostics and auto cspack build
Recently, one application I work on encountered an interesting issue. We have configured WAD to...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 02/03/2012
build agent cannot be removed due to problematic reserved build
Due to an unidentified problematic reserved build, one of our build engine stops to function...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/13/2011
have you ever really understood how Reliable Sessions works?
The Reliable Sessions feature of WCF has bothered me for a while because I thought I have never...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/10/2011
/debug, /optimize
MSDN has articles about these two compiler switches. However, people have been always confused by...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/07/2011
Yet another great post about use case and user story
Here we go.
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/01/2011
scenario, user story, use case
Here is a link to the most straightforward explanation around these concepts I have seen.In case you...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 12/01/2011
tfsbuild destroy is your friend
Here is what I just got by using this command.Microsoft (R) TfsBuild Version 10.0.0.0 for Microsoft...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/22/2011
Database.ExecuteSqlCommand
Database.ExecuteSqlCommand is very useful when leveraging Entity Framework 4.1/4.2 Code First model...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/10/2011
Resuming my blog…
It’s been a while since I quit my dedicated co-located web server and even my personal Live blog was...
Author: Jack Ma Date: 11/06/2011