What Business are You In?

João P. Bragança
Apologies in advance if the title is totally unoriginal. Nathaniel Jones recently posted a blog on his experiences with Azure. Unfortunately he had a pretty bad experience. I checked, and all of my azure sites were down. I logged into the portal, and discovered that all of my databases, backups, instances, and websites had been terminated and deleted. There was nothing left. In fact, everything had been deleted at midnight, 8 hours prior to the first (and only) notification of the action taken.

The Wrong Way to Use Javascript

João P. Bragança
I’ve been taking a bit of a coding vacation. Before I jump back into things, I decided to do a little housekeeping and clean the cobwebs from my interwebs. Specifically, reducing the level of annoying coming out of Facebook. Look at this nonsense right here: Wow, what a great user experience! Having to un-check 60-odd check-boxes individually is just great. I’m sure the team of 15 out of 1,000 Facebook engineers that built this page thought this was really clever.