by Derek Du

We struggled with Windows Azure websites because we couldn’t write logs. Using Log4Net to write to log files as we usually do, does not work for Azure Websites because of the limited file permission. We had to resort to email notifications or Virtual Machine when we needed to debug Azure Websites, which was a big headache!

Fortunately, it is all over now. To write t...

by Derek Du

If a WebAPI service takes a long time to complete, the caller -- the client side -- may timeout waiting for a response. There are several options to solve this issue, you can increase the timeout limit on the client side and web server side, or use a more persistent connection method like WebSocket and SignalR.

I propose a different way to avoid the timeout issue that all...

by Kristi Feng

Here are my favorite articles for this week:

3 cool Google cloud features

Google Cloud Platform targets developer with the following 3 unique features: Managed VMs, Replica Pools and Kurbernetes (management framework)

 

9 Common BI software mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Discussion on common mistakes when company selecting and implementing BI solution

 

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by Jacky Xu
When coding in C# Actions belong to the delegate family. Delegates give us a lot of power to hold references to methods to execute, but it needs some additional codes to define a new delegate for every situation in which you need one. Action<T> started in .NET 2.0, and then expanded through each version to eventually support Actions that take anywhere from 0 to 16&...

By Derek Du
One good thing about JavaScript is the simplicity of working on object property. For example, to traverse all properties of an object:

You may want to use hasOwnProperty () and isPropertyEnumerable to further filter the properties, but it is simple enough.
Also to add or delete a property is just as simple as:
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