Web service method can be either syncronous or asyncronous. A high quality web service should be very clear about whether each end point is syncronous or asyncronous. What are syncrhonous operations? Syncronous operations completes the operation at the time of completion of sending response. It...

How to be a good web service? To be a good service means the service has good SLA with very little or no downtime, quick response to request, etc. In addition to these common knowledge, in my opinion, to be a good web service also means when something goes wrong, the service fail gracefully. Here are...

Quite a few friends of mine are surprised about that I am working on Java for Windows Azure. Indeed, Windows Azure supports Java and it supports it really well. This posts summarize the core Java experience that are supported by Microsoft, its subsidiary and partners. A. Development/Deployment Experience...

Create a VM from Windows Azure Portal, remote desktop into that machine. Login as Administrator Turn Off IE enhanced security by going to Server Manager -> Local Server In command line windows, Install .NET 3.5 using the following command Dism /online /enable-feature /all /featurename...

Create a VM from Windows Azure Portal, Jenkins master and slave need to be co-located in the same affinity group. If you haven't created an affinity group, you should do that as the first step. Since created VM cannot change their affinity group, so please do this step correctly before proceeding. ...

When Geeks are talking about Jenkins, they may not mean Katherine Jenkins More likely, they are talking about Jenkins CI, a continuous integration technology which enables software projects to be complied and tested in a non-stopping fashion. Continuous integration avoids long and erroneous...

Windows Azure Worker Role is designed to supports non-.NET programming language, such as Java, PHP, Ruby or Node. In addition to the functions of the operating system, Windows Azure Worker Role also exposes the environment of machine to the application via named pipes. However, the non-.NET application...

AzureRunMe is an awesome tool written by Rob Blackwell from two10degree . Thousands of machines are powered by AzureRunMe. Today, I had the privilege to play with it. Here are the steps to start using AzureRunMe. 1. Create your Java project. For experimenting purpose, I have created a HelloWorld...

There are tens if not hundreds of cloud computing companies running their ads at odd places ranging from facebook to airport. You may ask, why does cloud computing matter? Cloud computing is going to transform how people use computer in a significant way. As the Internet technology becoming more and...