Daily News - In the Microsoft space, cloud and big data skills draw hefty premiums

Monday, January 12, 2015 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements "Are you still writing database update scripts by hand?" Then I give you a challenge: use SQL Compare to deploy your SQL Server changes for one week. It’ll cost you nothing. After just one week of fast, zero error deployments, I think you’ll see why 71% of the Fortune 100 use SQL Compare. Try it now New Microsoft Developer Video Library – Only $99 Learn SharePoint, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and more with thousands of step-by-step video tutorials for Microsoft developers from LearnNowOnline. Get an entire year of training for only $99! Learn more 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! Industry News Windows 7 hits mid-life, but no crisis -- yet Windows 7 middle-aged? Guess it will be getting a sports car soon. Source: Computerworld This router can power your devices wirelessly from 15 feet away Side effects may include whole body burns, appearance of second heads, and glowing children. Source: Engadget Phone Insider app pops up in Windows Phone store, hints at Windows 10 preview release Sure, run your phone on an alpha version of the OS. What's the worst that will happen? Source: Neowin Internet Explorer caused 2014 surge in Microsoft flaws, research finds "The more things change, the more they stay the same" Source: TechWorld Imagine there’s no Google "It's easy if you try" Source: The Next Web Developer News The results are in: developers are strategically lazy Nothing strategic about me Source: Jaxenter Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha Look at that: it's rusted almost all the way through Source: Rust Programming Language Google Go upgrade banks on Go itself Go, go, gadget compiler Source: Infoworld In the Microsoft space, cloud and big data skills draw hefty premiums "No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds" Source: ZDNet We're moving to GitHub! Another vote of support for Codeplex,and the TFS-Git bridge Source: CSharp blog Code Project Discussions - Your say! How do we handle complexity? "The complexity that we despise is the complexity that leads to difficulty." Source: CodeProject Pursuit of Excellence In All Forms "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." Source: CodeProject