If you have been using Azure web sites you might have heard of deployment slots. The idea behind slots is it gives you the ability to deploy an updated version

Amazon has made book publishing easy. This is why I have chosen to author more books, without a publisher. To be blunt the process is much easier without the pu

Recently Dave Voyles took some time to have a conversation with me about how I use XBox Fitness and my Microsoft Band to get in shape over the past year. We rel

MacAfee, Norton and other AV products wont work with Microsoft Edge because they plugged the security holes those AV products used to infiltrate browsers. This is a good thing!

Last year I migrated my spa infrastructure away from ASP.NET MVC to just plain HTML. Removing this dependency gives me a broad latitude of freedom to work with

The pages on the Azure Marketplace could use some simple refinements and load almost instantly across all devices and platforms. What you can learn from their mistakes to help your site perform better and achieve better search engine rankings.

This week the Microsoft Edge team updated the Platform Status list, indicating they have begun work on several new standards and APIs. I decided to filter to ju

Have you visited Microsoft's online store? I do at least 2-3 times a month. This weekend I wanted to see if there was a KidSpark class for my step-daughter. I c

Earlier this week I found my friend Nik Molnar's article about a new Azure Website extension to enable free SSL certificates, "Let's Encrypt" Azure Web Apps the

I mentioned a few times on my Blog about losing weight and getting in shape last year. I wrote a book about the experience. I hope the book serves as inspiratio

Last night I had a quick conversation with some friends at the dojo. The conversation covered the topic of having to support friends and family's technical issu

Over Christmas I ordered most of our gifts from Amazon. I have Amazon Prime and it is a wonderful user experience because I rarely need to worry about shipping

This Christmas I bet you visited Amazon and if you are like me purchased at least one item. Last year I started Amazon Prime and love the free shipping, Sunday

The latest Windows update (Threshold 2) featured new standards support in Edge. While there are many new features and bug fixes one that got me a little energiz

One of the biggest objections to responsive design is the perception is negatively affects performance. Performance concerns were my biggest hang up before I fi

In case you have missed the announcement made about a year ago, Microsoft is killing Internet Explorer 10 and below next month. By killing they are no longer of

Single page applications have become very popular in recent years. They were created in an effort to make web apps feel more like native applications.

Over 108 days this past winter I lost 72 pounds. Since then I have kept it off and even trimmed a few more off lately. Nearly a year ago I had a car wreck follo

Last week Chrome's Paul Lewis released an article called 'The Cost of Frameworks' that stirred up the web development community.These sorts of articles stir up

I often get asked why I am not a fan of React, Angular, Backbone, Ember or other fast food frameworks. The full answer is probably long and drawn out, but I wil

Earlier this month I wrote about Google deprecating their AJAX site crawling scheme. In that article I mentioned the concept of a core site. I have mentioned it