I wrote this module because of the lack of process managing tools for Node.js. I wanted to have a serious process manager for my production servers and here is it, with a lot of tools !

In the article "A Developer's Guide to Presentations" there were broad paint strokes which focused on the facets of a presentation. These tips varied from the preparation, to the presenting, to how to interact with an audience. Although this was an excellent discussion, a larger truth presented itself. There are two sides to any great presentation: a prepared presenter and how his/her information is presented. In modern day presenting this is in reference to the powerpoint built for the presentation. Unfortunately, this is a commonly overlooked area. A distracting presentation can have unintended consequences on the power of its content. A powerpoint presentation should not look like a yard sale. It's important to remember the natural pattern recognition within all people. Small problems or inconsistencies can drive a wedge between the presenter and viewer, breaking the flow of information.

SmartFile's API makes it easy for system administrators to monitor their developer's disk usage from bash using just curl.

Open Source is not only opening the code. The Social Coding is a new way of coding, with emphasis on collaboration around the code.

Do you remember the Game Genie? What if you had one for MVC Development?

Look to these automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools to keep your server farms running smoothly

With this little known attribute, you can overload C functions

By improving your campaign’s quality score you can expect to see reduced keyword bid prices while actually seeing your ads place on higher positions. Here’s how it works.

Small trick to display the branch and commit information in jenkins build, and provide a github compare link on deployment.

This technical tip shows how to convert PDF pages to PNG Image using Aspose.Pdf for Java. Users can choose to convert a particular PDF page to PNG image or convert all PDF pages to PNG Images. In order to convert all page of PDF file to PNG format, you need to iterate through individual page and convert it to PNG format. The given code snippet shows you how to traverse through all the pages of PDF file and convert it to PNG image. The PngDevice class allows you to convert PDF pages to PNG images. This class provides a method named process(..) which allows you to convert a particular page of the PDF file to PNG image.

The LongListSelector control in Windows Phone 8 is highly versatile. I decided to delve into the various ways we can use the LongListSelector as a JumpList. After a lot of searching on MSDN and a little bit of dabbling on my own part, I preparing a short tutorial in 2 parts:

So there you are, cranking out some new C/C++ (or CX/C++) code on Windows Phone. Its all new, so you add asserts all over the place to make sure its working. You run your app under the debugger to see how far it gets, and boom: it exits for no obvious reason. Turns out assert is broken on WP8.

In ScottGu’s Blog “Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET”, among all other new features, you learn how to stream your Windows Azure Web Site’s application logs into Visual Studio. It might be also useful if you persist those same logs in Azure Table Storage and view them in Visual Studio for certain time intervals. This blog will describe the steps how to achieve that.

For many Windows Store apps written in JavaScript that work with collections, cooperating well with the WinJS ListView control is essential for great app performance. This isn’t surprising: when you’re dealing with management and display of potentially thousands of items, every bit of optimization you make with those items really counts. Most important is how each of the items gets rendered, which is to say, how—and when—each item in the ListView control gets built up in the DOM and becomes a visible part of the app. Indeed, the when part of this equation becomes a critical factor when a user rapidly pans around within a list and expects that list to keep pace.

In the previous tutorial learning how to write a 3D soft engine from scratch in C#, TS or JS – drawing lines & triangles, we’ve learned how to draw lines & triangles and we really started to see the 3D side our meshes thanks to this wireframe rendering. But we’ve only displayed a cube… And even a simple cube already has 12 faces! Are we going to be forced to handle ourselves all the faces for more complex objects this way? Hopefully not.

I’ve just finished a significant push on automating our signing process over at the NuPattern project. And the results are so good that I felt like I need to share them with others, so you can also benefit from this important process step in your software projects.

Windows Azure allows game developers to focus on development and scale in the face of unpredictable demand. These resources showcase how real-life game developers are benefiting from Windows Azure.

Configuration file transforms have been around for quite a while and most companies use them to generate different config files for each environment but Visual Studio does not really support the functionality most companies need.  In this article I’m going to talk about why the existing Visual Studio implementation is flawed and how to fix it so that you can have true environmental transforms that are actually useful.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen JavaScript applications for the web, on the server, and on Windows become much more substantial in size. To address this trend, last October we released the initial version of TypeScript, which enables application-scale JavaScript, providing high-fidelity interaction with existing JavaScript libraries, and giving developers the direct power and flexibility of JavaScript from a language that supports advanced tooling and error detection.

Today's project by Keith Cully is one that I've been looking forward to highlighting. Keith's project looks like a fun game, but beyond that he's actually created a NUI based level editor too. How cool is that?

Today's project comes to us via Robert of frog design (Yes, that frog design). When his email came in (You all know you can email us your cool and fun projects right? If there's code, is in the Microsoft sphere an does something cool, fun, interesting or different, drop us a line about it, ch9@microsoft.com) I thought it a good fit for the C4F blog. Why? Here's a snip from the email;

In part 2 of a 4 part series on control vendors, Robert is joined at TechEd in New Orleans by Phil Japikse of Telerik. Phil shows us some of the many XAML controls Telerik provides for XAML development, both in WPF and Windows 8.

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us again for a conversation about TypeScript. What have they learned since TypeScript first became available in preview form? How are folks using it? What's the feedback been?

If you Bing (or Google!) "Crypto Primer", an article I wrote on my blog some time ago will come back as the first result. It seems to have been a very popular read and is linked from all over the Internet.