In the last part of this series, we experienced how to create a new wordpress blog instance in Azure App Service. In this part we will learn, how to configure your wordpress instance for publishing. Now that we have WordPress instance deployed in Azure App Service, lets expore the app service instance a bit. Step… Continue reading
Category: Tips & Tricks
WordPress Blog in Azure App Service In Minutes–Part 01
All my life I have been a tech saavy person would make my hands dirty trying out all odds available. Here I am going to help you with setting up your own WordPress Blog in Azure App Service. SPOILER ALERT: We will be using a B1 – Basic instance to save the cost. Step 1:… Continue reading
Installing Windows 10 Client Hyper-V in VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX
As a Windows 10 Insider, I would always latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 10/UWP development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 10 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V… Continue reading
Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown
Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available… Continue reading
Making an Offline install of Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8
In my last articles I introduced you to the latest update for Windows Phone SDK to support Windows Phone 7.8. The installer available download from here, the installer package[WPExpress78_update.exe](1.10MB) is an Online/Web Installer – will download the necessary packages on demand at the time of installation, and it would take some time depending on your… Continue reading
StartW8–a closer, free Windows Aero start menu alternative–for Windows 8
While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell, Power8 were those. [logo courtesy: AreaGuard] Today I just found another cool alternative that you… Continue reading
Write and Publish your blogs in Word 2013 – Office 2013
Word 2013 in Office 2013 having a nice feature which will help us to write blog posts and publish to any blog provider such as wordpress, blogger etc. Using the blog post template in Word 2013 ,you can easily write blog posts in your word and publish them to your blog. Here is some screen… Continue reading
Windows Phone 8 – Internet Explorer 10 support for Mobile Websites–UserAgent(UA) details for IE10-WP8
Earlier Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 8 will have Mobile version of Internet Explorer 10. IE10 have lots of improvements in terms of HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript support etc. If you want your existing mobile websites to compatible to IE10 and you are using any User Agent(UA) detection logic to provide UA specific User Experience… Continue reading
Bring Start Menu back to your Windows 8 PC with Start8
Stardock Corporation(makers of ObjectDock and WindowBlinds) has released a free tool – Start8 – that will bring Start Menu back to your Windows 8 PC. This tool will give you a native looking Start Menu to your Windows 8 OS, with more familiar programs listing. It would be useful to all Windows enthusiasts who are… Continue reading