Tag: Windows Azure

Cross Platform CLI for SQL Server

I’m dying to get client software to access my SQL Server from my Mac. All this time I use Navicat for SQL Server Lite, as name, a lite/free version, which has been very outdated. The full version is more up-to-date and more features, but honestly it is a bit expensive for me.

Another option is using SQuirrel SQL which happens to have SQL Server support. Since it’s developed in Java and as long as you have JDBC driver of DBMS to access, I think it can access that DBMS well. It’s a great piece of free software. Just sometime it’s a bit complex for simple query operation that I want, for example.

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Talk: Windows Azure Development Updates

I spent sometime today with Bandung web and mobil developers to update some awesome new stuffs in Azure platform. Most of my sharing is talking about what ScottGu posted in his blog post.

As I happen to be one of advisor of Azure Mobile Services, I also shared new stuffs on Azure Mobile Services. Among other things are:

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Talk: Deploy WordPress to Windows Azure Web Sites – for Blogger

On April 12, 2014, I have an honour to share technical stuff to non-technical audience, which is quite challenging to be honest. I delivered a talk about deploying WordPress to Windows Azure Web Sites for food bloggers audience, in an event of idGeekGirls sharing. idGeekGirls is a Indonesian community consists of, as name, girls who happen to be geeks. In this event, they organised a sharing about social media phenomenon around food/culinary industry and how food bloggers and resto/cafe owners can take advantage of it.

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Talk: Intro to Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS

It started with this tweet:

It said that @hackerspacebdg, a co-working space for creative (developers, designers, bloggers) freelancers and entrepreneurs in Bandung, organises a sharing event to talk about database design and optimisation. On the last minute I tell the organiser that I’d like to share about database backend for mobile apps. They say OK, so I join the force.

Specifically I talk about Windows Azure Mobile Services that offers database-driven backend for mobile apps frontend, either for iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, or even Android. I choose specific implementation on iOS, since I do iOS app development almost everyday.

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