a developer's notebook
In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you want to share files among multiple computers and, bearing in mind that the storage is in the cloud, you can scale your drive as much as you need. First of all, let’s start with…
Sometimes you may want your Azure website to not be publicly available or to restrict the access to it quickly and easily, without having to perform any complex configuration or code changes. This actually can be achieved with a few clicks through Azure Websites Authentication/Authorization; a feature that allows users to quickly restrict access, using Azure Active Directory, with just a few clicks. In this post,…
RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favorite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set up. Setup To set it up you need the following: Raspberry PI 3 MicroSD card HDMI cable Powerbank or 5V 2.5A micro USB…
In the new Microsoft Azure Portal, you might have noticed that, next to some of your resources, appears the text “(Classic)”, for example Storage Accounts and Storage Accounts (classic). This happens in order to separate resources that have been deployed with the Classic deployment model from the ones that have been deployed with the Azure Resource Manager. Some Background Azure originally provided only…
In Azure if you have two or more SQL Databases and you want to perform a query across them, you might come across the following error: Reference to database and/or server name in '[database table]' is not supported in this version of SQL Server. In order to perform cross database queries among SQL Azure databases you need to use the elastic database query feature. What is…
In our previous article we explored the option of creating, deploying and managing the Parse Server using a pre-configured VM image on Microsoft Azure. In this post we are going to describe an easy way for Parse developers to continue their work on Microsoft Azure by leveraging the following mobile services; Azure App Service and Notification Hubs. In Azure MarketPlace, when searching for Parse Server, you may come across…
Parse was founded in 2011, in order to provide backend tools for mobile developers that help them store data in the cloud, manage identity logins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. In 2013 it was acquired by Facebook and in 2014 it was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps. Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse…
Nowadays, it seems very common to upload an image to an application, have it analyzed and get useful info about it; have you ever wondered,though, how easy it is to add this functionality to your own app? I am going to start a series of posts, describing a simple ASP.NET core application that allows you to upload images, detect faces and extract…
Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network (CDN) is a globally distributed network of proxy servers, deployed in multiple data centers, which serve content to end users with high availability and high performance. Usually, when a user visits your site, he/she gets redirected to your web host’s server, which is found at a central location. Based on the distance between the user’s and the server’s…
Data is not only the core of any business but also a significant asset for all users. Important files -like critical work documents or personal photos- deserve a great backup strategy for their protection against unexpected hardware failure or plain accidental deletion. In the recent release of DSM 6.0, Synology introduced a tool, called Hyper Backup, which provides a multi-version backup and minimizes the…
