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Thursday, January 15, 2015 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers" Improve your application's database performance with 45 tips from SQL Server MVPs and industry experts. Polish your table indexes, love your ORMs, master efficient queries - and get your DBA to buy you a beer. Get the eBook here. Self-service BI is a necessity for business today.  Free Gigaom webinar on adding user-driven BI to your application. View it now. 3-Days Only...Microsoft Developer Video Library Just $49 Learn Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL and more with thousands of training videos by Microsoft experts. Get a year of access to this popular learning library for ONLY $49 (regularly $99). Hurry, offer ends Friday, 1/16/15.Subscribe now Industry News Microsoft is primed for a comeback in 2015 Been so long since I heard about them. Source: Infoworld Samsung approaches BlackBerry about buyout - source Hang on to your keyboards, this could get interesting Source: Reuters Google Translate now does real-time voice and sign translations on mobile {Put a Darmok quote here} Source: Techcrunch Mark Zuckerberg enters the office with launch of 'Facebook At Work' pilot Work. Facebook. One of these things does not fit the other. Source: The Verge Need to create Dashboards from Excel Charts or Ranges? With SpreadsheetGear, you and your users can design dashboards, reports, charts, and models in Excel or the SpreadsheetGear Workbook Designer rather than hard-to-learn developer tools and easily deploy them with one line of code. Try it now! Developer News We can’t measure Programmer Productivity… or can we? "How long is a piece of string?" Source: Building Real Software Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker "The barrier was not meant to be crossed." Source: .NET Web Development Good news, Java developers: Everyone wants you "Never miss a play, though you make quite a few" Source: Infoworld The four species of Agile "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change." Source: DZone Code Project Discussions - Your say! Are you a food snob? Does buying the expensive pot noodles count? Source: CodeProject Anyone experienced with Visual Studio Online? Not the worst named Microsoft product, but one of the more misleading Source: CodeProject