Azure table storage only supports some types. You can find the list here. Complex types are not supported (maybe later they will be, but today it’s not the case). I needed to store some data that is more complex than just a string. As I didn’t need to search on the objects themselves it was ok to store them as Json.

A while ago a colleague asked me how to test a REST API when you need a token to use the API. He just wanted to verify some data and didn’t want to write any code. You’ll need to do some configuration, but once it’s setup the REST calls become painless.

VSTS facilitates scrum. It has backlog items, prints,… An important chart that indicates if the planned work will get done by the end of the sprint is the burndown chart:

If you keep adding tasks to the current sprint, the burndown chart will get up instead of, wel, burning down.

There are a lot of tutorials about how to write a Hello World application. Those are great to get started, but as a software developer I’m expected to write production ready code.