— Scott Guthrie (@ scottgu) May 2, 2013
Scott Hanselman was kind enough to try out the beta and he wrote up his thoughts on his blog: Penny Pinching in the Cloud Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring On Windows Azure Web Sites
Make sure to ask us for a demo in the exhibition hall. We're looking forward to talking with you next week in Chicago!
And don't forget, all Visual Studio Live! attendees can try New Relic Pro for 30 days…
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…enthusiasts gathered from near and far for three days of talks, socializing and views from the historic Guthrie theatre. Well, we have good news for those who weren't able to make it: all of the talks are now available for public consumption on our Vimeo channel ! Head over there and take a look for yourself.
Can get enough JRuby? JRuby Conf will be taking its show on the road to Berlin this summer, as part of Eurucamp . Get your tickets now and check …
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…Minneapolis, Minnesota, home to some of JRuby's main contributors and biggest cheerleaders, at the Guthrie Theater on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
Want to support our cause? We're currently looking for sponsors for everything from snacks to after-parties, so check out our prospectus for more information, or email us at jrubyconf@engineyard.com if you have other cool ideas. We'd love to see your participation.
Want to join us? Buy your tickets …
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Pictured above are folk singer Woody Guthrie's new year resolutions for 1942. They've been making the rounds on the internet lately and I thought they'd make a great intro for this article.
Although written by a guy in a very different line of work for a bygone era, a lot of them are still applicable to today's techie:
Work more and better
Work by a schedule
Wash teeth if any
Take bath
Eat good: fruit, vegetables, milk
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The story continues when Guthrie was later ordered to report for induction into the Army. Again, for the benefit of my younger audience, I probably need to explain that, during the Vietnam War, the US had a military draft, unlike today's "volunteer" military which attracts recruits out of a mixture of patriotism and economic necessity.
The upshot of the story was that after going through a series of medical examinations at the induction center, he was nearing being sworn …
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Scott Guthrie's blog has the step-by-step instructions for:
Working around the vulnerability
Making sure that the workaround has been enabled
Finding vulnerable ASP.NET applications on your server
Finding out more about the vulnerability
If you've got an ASP.NET-based application, make sure you've set up the workaround!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection .
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What is WebMatrix?
By now, you've probably seen the tech news reports as well as Scott Guthrie's announcement about WebMatrix , Microsoft's lightweight web development web development system that packages a web development tool with a number of new web technologies:
IIS Developer Express: a lightweight, free-as-in-beer web server with simple setup, runs on all versions of Windows and is compatible with the full-on version of IIS 7.5