Elton Stoneman - March 2011 Entries

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Software Architect, Microsoft MVP and Pluralsight author. Connecting systems since 2000AD.

Real World Big Data in Azure
June 2015 |

Getting Started with Ubuntu
February 2015 |

Five Essential Tools for Building REST APIs
December 2014 |

Executable Specifications: End-to-End Acceptance Testing With SpecFlow
August 2014 |

IDisposable Best Practices for C# Developers
June 2014 |

Message Queue Fundamentals in .NET
April 2014 |

C# Extension Methods
December 2013 |

Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS
October 2013 |

Nginx and PHP Fundamentals
July 2013 |

Caching in the .NET Stack: Inside-Out
June 2013 |

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Elton Stoneman
This is the *old* blog. The new one is at blog.sixeyed.com March 2011 Entries

Connecting the device to the cloud: iPhone & Azure

Guidelines for interop between iPhone client apps and Azure services. Oh, and a plug for my Fantasy Formula 1 iPhone app (available now)...

Posted On Friday, March 18, 2011 9:11 AM

String comparison: StartsWith() slower than Contains()

Micro-optimization for string comparison, used in (forthcoming) log4net ETW appender

Posted On Friday, March 18, 2011 8:43 AM

Fixing up Configurations in BizTalk Solution Files

PowerShell script to get your configurations fixed up in a BizTalk solution file

Posted On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:26 PM

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