by Joe Zhou

Every night I spend about 15 minutes to quickly browse through the tweets from the 100+ individuals I follow on Twitter to get inspiration to either make me a better person or make my life easier. Below I want to share 3 tools that will make my life easier.

1.       Jsonstub can fake the back end while my team develops the front end. This is a time saver. We can literally build a live demo without having to go through heated discussions to determine whether to use .NET, Java, NodeJS, IIS or Apache for the back end.

2.       We have been using Windows Azure to build our .NET-based websites for quite some time now. We always felt it would be great for Azure to provide the ability to run scheduled background jobs. Microsoft listened somehow and released the WebJobs feature in Windows Azure Web Sites in February.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-create-web-jobs/

3.       JQuery Code Snippets by Kyle Spearrin. There are over 130 code snippets for JQuery included.  

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/577b9c03-71fb-417b-bcbb-94b6d3d326b8