As an eager developer craving for Big Data knowledge, you’ve probably come across many tutorials that explain how to create a simple hive query or pig script, I have. Sounds simple enough, right? Now imagine your solution has evolved from one ad-hoc query, to a full library of hive, pig and Map/reduce scripts, scheduled jobs,... read more
What is a Big Data solution to you? Whatever you are thinking of, I cannot think of a better example than the story of the blind and the elephant. ”I’m a dev, It’s about writing some Map/Reduce awesomeness”, or “I’m a business analyst, I just want to query data in Excel!”, ”I’m a passer-by, but... read more
If you have used TypeScript you are probably aware of the compiled outcome of an Arrow Function (section 4.9.2 of the TypeScript Language Specification). The idea behind using () => {…}; instead of function(){…}; is to have access to the object represented by this in the outer scope, which is what you would expect when... read more
The release candidate of Windows Azure Media Services SDK for .NET was published on NuGet a few days ago. As explained in this post, the older preview SDK version 1.0 is now considered deprecated and you should uninstall it a recompile your app using the 2.0 release. This new release includes new functionality and some... read more
In a previous post I briefly introduced Hadoop and described a brief overview of its components. In this post I’ll put my money where my mouth is and actually do stuff with Hadoop on Azure. Again, one step at a time. So I went to the market and found some free demographics data available from... read more
Seriously. There’s an elephant in the room, so I’ve no choice but to talk about it. I’m new to Big Data and newer to Hadoop on Azure, so this post (and future ones as well) will serve as an introduction to the underlying concepts of big data and my experience on using Hadoop on Azure,... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on October 3rd, 2011 1:40 pm under Adaptive Streaming, CSM, Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Composite Stream Manifest, Emerging Technology, Live Smooth Streaming, Media, Microsoft Media Platform, Prism, Prism-v2.2, RCE, Rough Cut Editing, Silverlight, Silverlight 5, Smooth Streaming
Today, the new version of the Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) Video Editor was released to the public. The new release is based on Silverlight 5, and has a lot (really a lot!) of new features (fully listed below), such as a UI based on floating windows, and a new Sub-Clip tool which gives editors more... read more
Late October 2010, Tim, Geoff and I went to meet Sam (SR DEV LED from Windows Manageability) to talk about a potential engagement on a Web UI Project for Windows Powershell 3.0. We got really excited about the opportunity and after eleven (11) weeks of hard work, we helped Windows Manageability to deliver the first... read more
During the last couple of years I worked quite a lot with Windows Azure. There is no other choice if you work with the Microsoft DPE team, like we do at Southworks The thing is that we usually have to deal with last minute deployments to Azure that can take more than a minute <grin>.... read more
Yesterday Nathan announced the release of the Windows Azure Accelerators for Web Roles. If you are using Windows Azure today, this can be a pain relief if you’ve got used to wait 15 minutes (or more) every time you deploy to Windows Azure (and hope nothing was wrong in the package to realize after then... read more
