Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a style of software design where services are provided to other applications or components through some kind of protocol over the network. Basic Principles of SOA Independent of vendors, products, and technologies. Represents a business activity with a specified outcome. Self-contained. Black box for consumer of the service. Loose coupling... » read more
Both SOAP and REST are web services that allows machine-to-machine communications. They are API that allow your application to interact with another application. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) More structured. Only XML. More complexity and overhead in getting a connection setup. Comes with definitions that allows you to generate classes/objects in your application. Multiple application... » read more
These are a list of some common non-technical questions you should know before going into a job interview. Like taking an exam for college, it is good to be prepared and have an answer in mind just in case you are asked one of these questions. Why are you leaving your current company? What is... » read more
Here are some basic object oriented design concepts one should know or good to know before going into a technical interview for a software engineering position. Abstraction The act of representation a feature without describing the extract detail of the feature. Why it matters: “I don’t really care how you get the data. All I... » read more
DateTime.UtcNow tells you the date and time as it would be in Coordinated Universal Time, aka Greenwich Mean Time time zone. Basically the time as if you are in London England. DateTime.Now gives the date and time as it would appear to someone in your current locale. It is better to store DateTime.UtcNow then DateTime.Now... » read more
After you have point your custom domain to your Azure web app, user will get a “Not secure” warning every time they visit your web app. In order to get rid of this warning message, you need to register and install a valid SSL certificate. I use a vendor called SSLS.com to get a valid... » read more
Go to the Custom domains section of your web application. Add the following host on Azure Portal. yourdomain.com A Record www.yourdomain.com CNAME Make sure you have already added an A Record and a TXT to point to your web app. A Record xx.xx.xx.xx TXT Record xxxxxxxxx.azurewebsites.net
The easiest way to move content of your WorldPress site to another site is to use the Export and Import feature in the Tools section. WordPress gives you the options to export All content or specific objects. The export will generate a xml file which you can use to import into a new site.
If you have your own domain, you can use Google G Suite to setup your own email service. This Google service cost $5/user/month. Once you have finish setup with Google, you will also have to set this up from your domain provider. I use MyDomain.com for my domain provider. You need to do 2 things,... » read more
Traditional SQL Server backup doesn’t apply to SQL Azure. SQL Azure have the following backup features. Copy – Make a copy of the database on the server. Restore – Restore a database from a point in time. Up to 7 days. Look at the “Oldest restore point” value. Export – Create a .bacpac backup file... » read more