Stories by Martin Heller

First look: Microsoft's Azure App Services sweeten cloud development

In early March I reviewed the AWS Mobile SDK, Google Firebase, and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, the mobile back-end service offerings of the three major public clouds. The Microsoft option was a pleasant surprise. I was struck by Microsoft's thoughtful implementation of mobile services and the respect with which the Azure Mobile Services team addressed the needs of app developers without imposing on the choice of solution; thus, we awarded it an Editor's Choice.

Written by Martin Heller02 April 15 00:28

Learn to crunch Big Data with R

A few years ago I was the CTO and co-founder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can optimize - everyone's - time. Too often, office visits are scheduled to optimize the physician's time, and patients have to wait way too long in overcrowded waiting rooms in the company of people coughing contagious diseases out their lungs.

Written by Martin Heller11 Feb. 15 22:03

PaaS shoot-out: Cloud Foundry vs. OpenShift

Cloud Foundry shines with broad application support and stellar ease of use, but OpenShift has the edge in management and automation

Written by Martin Heller13 Aug. 14 20:06

Review: Google Chrome wants to be your OS

The Chrome Apps architecture enables native-like apps, written in JavaScript with platform APIs, that load fast, run quickly, and work offline

Written by Martin Heller19 Feb. 14 11:06

Office 365 administration made easy

Going beyond Office 365's native admin GUI, 365 Command provides powerful Exchange admin capabilities without the need to run PowerShell

Written by Martin Heller21 Jan. 14 14:23

Review: Office 365 administration made easy

Going beyond Office 365's native admin GUI, 365 Command provides powerful Exchange admin capabilities without the need to run PowerShell

Written by Martin Heller21 Oct. 13 10:09

First look: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a major upgrade from SharePoint 2007 in several areas. It has a much improved user interface, especially for online editing. It supports more browsers. It does a better job of integrating with Microsoft Office. It provides more opportunities to developers and designers, as well as to shops that might want to consolidate other products (such as blogs and wikis and business applications) with SharePoint.

Written by Martin Heller24 Nov. 09 22:14

Microsoft Silverlight 3

Redmond's much-enhanced rich Internet application platform also runs on Windows or Mac desktops, online or offline

Written by Martin Heller15 June 09 16:10

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Although not without problems, Microsoft Visual Studio is the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and at least a contender for the best Windows-hosted C/C++ IDE.

Written by Martin Heller15 June 09 12:35

Microsoft Exchange 2010 beta

Flexibility, reliability, client-side improvements, and ease of administration mark this major upgrade

Written by Martin Heller20 April 09 13:25
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