
The Rise of Cloud-Based IDEs: Q&A with IBM’s Ken Walker
Maybe it’s a little bit of manifest destiny, but I couldn’t help but notice that one of my new year’s predictions is already coming true: Namely that it’s only late February and I’m already seeing…

We Use Private Integration Labs – You Should Too!
At CloudShare we are working agile. Every 2 weeks we have a new version deployed to production. One of the advantages of such short iteration is the ability to get very early feedback from customers…

SharePoint 2013 Load & Performance Testing
In this post I will explain how you can do web performance tests in SharePoint 2013. In the same way you can detect/prevent any issue or problem on your SharePoint Solutions doing an exhaustive analysis…

Meet Bob: “If only I had it sooner!”
“Wow! That’s Cool!” was my first reaction. “I wish I knew about this sooner.” was my second. That’s a really auspicious start to my joining CloudShare. When I was exploring the opportunity to join…

Tableau in the Cloud!
Tableau is a top leader in the business intelligence space offering state of the art data visualization techniques and dashboard development for insightful visual analytics. The current tableau product offerings: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau…

How-To: Setup TFS Continuous Deployment with CloudShare
You may have seen in this previous post how CloudShare works great with TFS online, now Visual Studio Online. But it works great with your on-prem TFS as well! If you’ve already implemented TFS in…

How Snapshots save your assets
You hear it all the time in the real world. Back up your computer. Because the day will come when something catastrophic and out of your control happens. The same can be true for your…

Adventure in DevOps & Coding: Learning PHP & Setting up Continuous Deployment in CloudShare
Face it, if you are a born and raised .NET Client/Server developer like me, you are now old school. I have been aware of this fact for several years now, but not until late 2013…

Troubleshooting Windows Azure Workflow in a SharePoint 2013 CloudShare Environment!
Last week while I was doing a SharePoint 2013 training using my CloudShare environments as the training platform for my students I found several issues when trying to create and deploy workflows in Windows Azure…

Adding DevOps Capabilities to “Visual Studio On-Line” using CloudShare
If you are a Developer on the Microsoft Stack, you have surely heard the news about the advancements, and renaming of TFS Services to Visual Studio On-Line. Visual Studio On-Line, announced on Nov 13th, comes…

2014 Predictions for Developers
The time of the year for predictions has come, and as in previous years, CloudShare is throwing theirs in the pile. But these are not just any old predictions. I’m going to tell you how…

SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery- Creating, Testing and Maintaining the DR Plan- Part 4
This article is the fourth and final article that cover creating, testing and maintaining a SharePoint DR plan. These articles are from a chapter extract from the book: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide. …