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Performance? What do you mean performance?
One of the common issues we see a lot of in the Support Cave revolves around ‘performance’. So let’s set the scene a little. When it comes to connecting to a virtual machine, remotely, from…
Using the Cloud to Make Contractor Work Seamless
(Last updated in 2018) In the CloudShare dev group, we occasionally work with an outside consultant or contractor. One of the most annoying pains when hiring a developer contractor is the need to provide him…
SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery- Creating, Testing and Maintaining the DR Plan- Part 3
This article is 3 of 4 articles 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. Creating…
Holiday in the Clouds
This time of year is great for the developer to catch up. Get beyond the daily fire drills. Maybe your family will get you involved in some IT task you rather avoid. But this time…
SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery- Creating, Testing and Maintaining the DR Plan- Part 2
This article is 2 of 4 articles 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. Identifying…
Analyzing SharePoint Solutions with MSOCAF – Part I
If we have to audit a SharePoint environment in terms of the artifacts deployed or we are working for a customer demanding high quality in our development process, it is a good practice to do…
SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery- Creating, Testing and Maintaining the DR Plan- Part 1
This article is 1 of 4 articles 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. One of…
Make that Business Application cool again!
Do you have enough fingers to count the number of “Systems” in your organization? These systems, lovingly called Line of Business applications, or LOBs for short, are critical for daily work. But the software and…
What’s new in Office Development Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC – Part I!
In my last post in the CloudShare Community Blog I talked about how to upgrade from Visual Studio 2013 Preview to Visual 2013 Release Candidate (VS 2013 RC) in a CloudShare Environment. In this new…
Lab Management … That Works
As you may know CloudShare’s new product, TeamLabs, opens up a world of opportunity in the Application Lifecycle Management, and Application Release Automation worlds. While I’ve spent a long time working in application development, the…
Developers Do It Better (In the Cloud)
Not long ago the folks over at DotNetRocks aired a podcast on application testing in the Cloud. In this podcast, they talked about the benefits of testing your code in the Cloud across a range…
What’s New in Office Development Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview – Part II
In the first article about enhancements in the Office Development Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview, I showed you the new wizards you have when creating SharePoint Apps. Specifically, Visual Studio 2013 Preview (VS 2013…