Friday, August 28, 2009

Five levels of programmers

1. Visionary/Artist

2. Trailblazer

3. Workhorse

4. Drone

5. Idiot

Saw it on internet. It's absolutely true.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Which cities are most interested in Windows Azure cloud computing platform

Which cities are most interested in Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

The statistics are from my own websites, based on the number of searches people make for Windows Azure related information, including "azure microsoft", "azure development storage shared key", "multi-thread azure", and so on.

1. Redmond, WA, US

2. Bellevue, WA, US

(Yes, of course, Microsoft is in Redmond and Bellevue, we are absolutely enthusiastic about our own product...)

3. Sydney, Australia

4. San Francisco, CA, US

(The sillicon valley falled behind Sydney, they should pay attention...)

4. Dresden, Germany

5. London, UK

6. Seoul, Korea

7. Vancouver, Canada

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

How to tokenize string in C#/C sharp

As we know Java has lovely string tokenizer, C# has something similar here.

char[] seps = {','}; //Add as many as u want

string[] tokens = line.Split(seps);

How to use customized DLLs in windows azure development

For example, if u want to use your own dll in Webrole, right click -> Add -> Existing item. Then go to the property of the dll, Set "Copy to output directory" to "Copy if newer".

Azure platform is 64 bit, so make sure your dlls are x64.

About creating sdf file(SQL Compact Edition file type) in Windows Azure local file storage

Uploaded all the x64 version SQL Compact Edition dlls with my code to Azure to try to create sdf file.

Failed. Contacting Azure team to solve this problem.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Microsoft Yahoo Deal Done.

Microsoft Yahoo deal done. In the format of Revenue Share.

Yahoo search will not exist any more. Bing will be the default search page of Yahoo search.