Jean-Pierre Paradis's Blog

Even though Cassini is the default development web server in Visual Studio, Microsoft has provided a stand-alone option that also integrates with Visual Studio. IIS Express is almost exactly like the full IIS, only it is self-contained, it isn’t a service, and it doesn’t need admin rights for most tasks. We are going to walk through how to get it, how to configure it, and how to make the most of it without spending a lot of time on it.

Article : Tim Corey on CodeProject

IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed.
However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent connection request limitation to limit high traffic production uses on a client edition of Windows.

Source : Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit - Scott Forsyth's Blog

Learn about the features and functionality that are deprecated in SharePoint 2013.

Complete article : Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
Source : Stefan Gobner

Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today demonstrated its strong commitment to the PowerShell community by making its PowerShell Plus product available for free. This milestone was also marked by the delivery of a new version of the product, PowerShell Plus 4.6.

Source : PowerShell Magazine

Stress test your application stack and expand your toolset with Windows versions of popular Unix/Linux-based command-line utilities with this month’s tools.
StressStimulus GnuWin

Source : Toolbox: New products for IT professionals | TechNet Magazine

Navigating Windows 8 involves a steeper learning curve, but you can't dispute the features that Microsoft has absolutely nailed.

Complete article : www.cio.com

Microsoft announced today that it has participated in the porting of a hit iOS game, Contre Jour, to the web with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10. Described as the most ambitious use of HTML5 to date, Contre Jour needs to be experienced with a Windows 8 (or RT) tablet to be fully appreciated.

Interested in playing Contre Jour on the web? Check it out now at http://www.contrejour.ie.

Source : Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

The latest language from the company once identified for its programming languages seeks to bring a higher class of developer into the Web apps space, without changing the foundation of the Web... even if such a change wouldn’t be such a bad idea

Read more : ReadWriteWeb

Here’s a little AppleScript Droplet to clear all Extended Attributes in OS X. This is useful to delete the famous com.apple.quarantine attribute.

Create a new script in AppleScript Editor
Copy and paste the code
Save as an application under the name Clear-Extended-Attributes.app

Then, you can simply drag an drop files or folders on the application.

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C L E A R E X T E N D E D A T T R I B U T E S

Delete all extended attributes from one or many files

under OS X

Author : Jean-Pierre.Paradis@fsa.ulval.ca

Date : 2 octobre 2012

Version : 1.00

Language : AppleScript (Droplet)

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tell application "Finder" to display alert "Please drop file(s) or folder(s) on this application to delete all extended attributes" as informational

on open Dropped_Things

repeat with Item_index from 1 to the count of Dropped_Things

set Dropped_Item to item Item_index of Dropped_Things

set Dropped_Item_Info to info for Dropped_Item

if folder of the Dropped_Item_Info is true then

Process_Folder(Dropped_Item)

else

Process_File(Dropped_Item)

end if

end repeat

end open

-- this sub-routine processes files

on Process_File(File_Item)

set File_POSIX_path to POSIX path of File_Item

set File_Item_Info to info for File_Item

display dialog "Processing '" & (name of File_Item_Info) & "' ..." with icon note buttons {"Ok"} with title "Clear Extended Attributes" giving up after 1

do shell script "xattr -c '" & File_POSIX_path & "'"

end Process_File

-- this sub-routine processes folders

on Process_Folder(Folder_Item)

set Folder_Content to list folder Folder_Item without invisibles

repeat with Item_index from 1 to the count of Folder_Content

set Folder_Content_Item to alias ((Folder_Item as Unicode text) & (item Item_index of Folder_Content))

set Folder_Content_Item_Info to info for Folder_Content_Item

if folder of Folder_Content_Item_Info is true then

Process_Folder(Folder_Content_Item)

else

Process_File(Folder_Content_Item)

end if

end repeat

end Process_Folder

It’s part of the Windows Management Framework 3.0.
It’s included with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, but it can be installed on

Windows 7 SP1,
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 &
Windows Server 2008 SP2

To download : www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/

You may also take a look at Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager Quick Reference Guides

Let’s touch on some of the highlighting features of PowerShell 3.0.

Link : PowerShell 3.0 overview – Part 1 from 4SysOps

Many companies are happy with the features SharePoint provides out of the box. Usually the only customization they want to do is change the webpage layouts and design to make them go along with their corporate design. For this purpose, they have a production SharePoint farm and one for test purposes. The customizations are done with SharePoint Designer on the test farm, and after they have been tested thoroughly they are rolled out to the production farm. But, more often than not, the day comes when SharePoint Designer isn’t enough and the SharePoint developer has to take the next step up to Visual Studio.

Source : 4sysops.com

While users of other email services need to access third party services to send huge files over the Internet, Outlook.com offers a better, more seamless experience: Attachments that exceed the service’s 10 MB attachment limit can simply be transmitted via SkyDrive instead. Put simply, Outlook.com users never need to worry about these limits.

Source : Paul Thrrott's Supersite for Windows

Another day, another provocative research report from Gartner, which has a long track record of spectacularly wrong predictions. I've collected some of their greatest hits. Er, misses.

Read the article @ www.zdnet.com