Noise from the Basement

Are you a MSDN subscriber?  Thinking about using Azure because of the sweet sweet credits you get for being a MSDN subscriber?  Maybe you want to switch because they are one of few cloud providers that have Windows operating systems.

Well I did switch.  Below are features, or missing features, in Azure that surprised me.

Azure has two interfaces and APIs

When login to Azure for the first time it asks if you want to use the new portal.  Sure you say, why not.  Then you go to create a new virtual machine in the new interface.  When creating the virtual machine you get asked if you want a legacy VM or a fancy new type of VM.  A new VM you say.  Great says Azure and you create the VM.

It’s almost time to put the Christmas decorations away, take down the lights, and finish digesting that turkey we’ve all been working on. We hope you’ve all had wonderful holidays surrounded by those you love as well.

We’ve been working on something else too (aside from that turkey, and I think I’m nearing the bottom of the roaster now) - our goal app. We’ve written about it a bit already, touching more on the technical aspects of things but also about its inception. So where are we now in the process?

Chris, Ada, Alice, and Liv will be taking some time off to spend time with our family and friends over the holidays.  And hopefully find some time to see the new Star Wars movie.

The basement office will be dark, well darker than usual, from December 24th to January 3rd.  You can still try to contact us but it might take us a couple days to respond to you.

We wish you all the best over the holidays.

Update: The below issue has been fixed in Mini-Compressor version 1.6.1 which can be found on our Download page.  Thank you for your patience.

We have confirmed an error when installing Mini-Compressor.  If you get one of the errors below, or something similar, we have a workaround until the error is fixed.

12002 https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/3/3/33352088-D63F-431D-8276-D013822D1870/VC_redist.x64.exe

Visual C++ “14” Runtime Libraries (x64) mandatory prerequisite was not correctly installed.

Version 0.9.2 (beta) of Migrator is now available for download.

This release fixed a show stopping issue where Migrator would not work on some older versions of SQL.  It also fixed an issue with the order dependencies are scripted. See the release notes for all the details.

Documentation about using and installing Migrator can be found at on the wiki.  If you find a bug with this release please let us know by entering a new issue.